Plone Salesforce Integration

Plone Salesforce Integration is a group dedicated to the open source effort to integrate the open source content management system Plone with the Salesforce.com CRM. Components of this project were started in 2006 with a project grant from the Salesforce.com foundation and is continued by the community.

PloneSalesforce comprises multiple software products that will allow you to interact with Salesforce directly from Python code in Plone:

• Beatbox
  • this is the Python toolkit for the Salesforce web API. It was originally written by Simon Fell.
  • it allows arbitrary connections to Salesforce from Python code
• SalesforceBaseConnector
  • this is where core Salesforce connections are made
  • it relies on Beatbox to talk to Salesforce
• SalesforceAuthPlugin (will be renamed)
  • this is an Authentication plug in that uses Salesforce as a Plone member repository
  • it relies on SalesforceBaseConnector to interact with Saleforce
• SalesforcePFGAdapter
  • this is a tool that uses Plone Form Gen to create web-to-X forms in Plone without any coding necessary
  • it relies on SalesforceBaseConnector to interact with Saleforce