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Salesforce create record

Nintex external platform is required for this feature. For details, see Enable Nintex external platform features.

Creates a record of a standard or custom object in Salesforce.

What can I do with this workflow action?

You can use this action as part of a workflow to automatically create contacts in Salesforce whenever contacts are added to a sample list.

Action settings

Following are the fields and options visible in the configuration settings dialog box for this action.

Field	Description
Connection	Select a Salesforce connection. For more information about connections, see Manage connections to external providers. Manual authorization for older workflows Older workflows created with manual authorization, such as those retained during upgrades, continue to require manual authorization. For these workflows, the following fields are available. Environment: Specify the Salesforce environment. Select one of the following items. Production Sandbox Username: Specify the Salesforce username. Password: Specify the Salesforce password. Security token: Specify the Salesforce security token. Note: For more information on security tokens, refer to the following topic in Salesforce online help: "Resetting Your Security Token."
Create	Specify the API name of the object.
Fields	Specify the field and its corresponding value for the record. To add a field, click Add field. Field configuration Field: Use API name when specifying the field. For example, to add Assign To of a Task record, specify the API name, such as OwnerID. To add Company Name, specify the API name, such as CompanyName. Value: Use the API-accepted format for the field. For example, to create a date or date/time, specify the value in UTC format. Example: 2014-12-31 or 2014-12-31T09:30:00 Note: For current API-accepted formats, see the Salesforce SOAP API documentation at the following URLs: http://www.salesForce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/primitive_data_types.htm and http://www.salesForce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/field_types.htm. To delete a field, click Delete ().
Output	Store output for this action using the following selections. Record ID: Specify a text variable to store the ID of the record. Record URL: Specify a text variable to store the URL of the record. How to add and remove output variables Depending on action requirements, you may be able to add and remove output variables. To add an output variable Select an option from the Select more drop-down list. Click Add to display a drop-down list for the selected option. Select a previously defined workflow variable from the drop-down list. To remove an output variable Click Delete (). Note: Some output variables cannot be deleted. For example, the output variable URL for the action Bing news search cannot be deleted.