New Field Mapping

Owned by Evgeniy Ermolaev (Deactivated)
Nov 20, 2019
2 min read

1. If you want to syn additional information to the Salesforce system from your Magento store - you need to create a new field in your Salesforce org first, or you can use some existing field.

The following articles may help you create new Salesforce fields:

https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=adding_fields.htm&type=5

https://success.salesforce.com/answers?id=90630000000gkIhAAI

 

2. When you should correct this field access level for API requests, the following article contains appropriated instruction for some default fields. You need to make the same steps for your new field also:

 

3. Generate a new WSDL file in your Salesforce and upload it to your Magento. This file provide with new field information to our Magento module. Take a look steps 3 and 5 in the following article:

4. Create a new mapping record for the new field in the Maggento:

  • Open appropriated entity mapping page in Magento Admin area:

 

  • Click the “Add new mapping“ button

  • Choose Magento field, Salesforce field and enable this chain and Save it.

 

 

 

You can map only compatible field types. Otherwise, it could cause an error. For example, you cannot push string Magento value to the numeric Salesforce field, in this case, Salesforce returns error message.