A Web-Based tool for generating Salesforce Data Dictionary supported with Oath2 Salesforce Authentication. This tool will help Salesforce Developer/Administrator to visualize their Schema Object field's pre-selected important attributes rather than visiting Salesforce Object Manager. It can export multiple schema objects to excel with fancy cell color and a Datatable for viewing the selected Schema Object.

• Next.js
• NextAuth.js
• tRPC
• jsforce
• Tailwind
• Typescript
• Flowbite React Components

Figure 1 - Duel Picklist

Figure 2 - SObject Datatable

Figure 3 - Exported Excel File

Using the Vercel Deploy Button, you can quickly deploy this project into your own Vercel Account.

After clicking the Deploy button above, it will redirect to your Vercel Account, you'll see similar to the following screen shot bellow.

1. Vercel will ask you to link your Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket. In this demo it uses Github, then populate the Repository Name and click Create.

2. Next, it will proceed on setting up the Environment Variables needed to this project to run smoothly, then click Deploy

1. Log in to Salesforce as an administrator.

2. In the drop-down list of the account (in the upper-right corner), select Setup.

3. In the left-hand pane, go to App Setup > Create >Apps.

4. In the Connected Apps pane, click the New button.

5. On the New Connected App page, fill the following required fields under Basic Information:

   • Connected App Name. For example, SF-Dictionator Demo.
   • API name. For example, SF-Dictionator Demo.
   • Contact Email.

6. Go to API (Enable OAuth Settings), and select Enable OAuth Settings.

   • In the Callback URL field, enter http://localhost:3000/api/auth/callback/salesforce and https://YOUR_VERCEL_APP_URL/api/auth/callback/salesforce.

   • In the Selected OAuth Scopes field, for this demo I added all available scope. In your end you can only select Access and manage your data (api), and then click Add.

     

7. Click the Save button to save the new Connected App.

8. In the Connected Apps list, find the App that you just created, and then click Manage.

   • On the page that opens, click the Edit button.
   • Under OAuth policies, select All users may self-authorize in the Permitted Users list, and then click the Save button.

9. Go back to the Connected Apps list, and click the App that you just created.

10. Go to API (Enable OAuth Settings), and note down the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, which will be used for the configuration of Environment Variables.

For local installation, create .env.local in root folder of the project.

SALESFORCE_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_CLIENT_KEY
SALESFORCE_CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET_KEY
SALESFORCE_URL_LOGIN=https://login.salesforce.com

NEXTAUTH_URL=http://localhost:3000
NEXTAUTH_SECRET=YOUR_NEXTAUTH_SECRET

To generate NextAuth Secret you can use this app: https://generate-secret.vercel.app/32

On this tool, your token is not stored in any databases. With the use of Next-Auth after the Salesforce Authenticate the user, using JWT provided by the Next-Auth only the token is used, and the session with a maximum TTL of 2 hours.

By using Refresh Rotation Strategy and refresh the token with a 15 minutes buffer time before the expiration of the token.

Before firing up the project make sure you already set your Environment Variables.

git clone https://github.com/pelayochristian/sf-dictionator.git
cd sf-dictionator
npm install

npm run dev

npm run build && npm run start

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.