[NGO] ANN: SalesforceConnector 0.9 Alpha released

Jon Stahl jon at onenw.org
Sat Oct 7 00:50:25 UTC 2006


Friends-

We cut a "0.9 Alpha" release of the SalesforceConnector for Plone
<http://plone.org/products/salesforceconnector>  today, just in the nick
of time to demo it at Dreamforce <http://www.salesforce.com/conference>
.

Thanks to the generous support of the Salesforce Foundation
<http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/> , we were able to work with our
friends at Enfold Systems <http://www.enfoldsystems.com/>  to build a
product for Plone 2.5 and above that allows you to:

*	Authenticate Plone users against data stored in Salesforce.com
*	Store new Plone users in Salesforce.com
*	Access user profile data stored in Salesforce.com

SalesforceConnector does this by taking advantage of Salesforce.com's
powerful web services API, which allows external applications to easily
access and maniuplate Salesforce data.  We also used Simon Fell's
product "Beatbox <http://svn.plone.org/view/collective/beatbox> " which
provides a Python wrapper for the Salesforce API.

SalesforceConnector still has a few issues that we intend to resolve
before cutting a 1.0 release in late October, but it is suitable for
testing and experimentation.  It uses a lot of leading-edge Plone
technology including PlonePAS, formlib and Zope3 views, so be sure to
brush up on these before diving in.   

best,
jon
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Jon Stahl, Program Manager
ONE/Northwest - Online Networking for the Environment
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