Salesforce API Connection Testing: A Practical Troubleshooting Guide
A successful Salesforce login proves only that authentication worked. A usable API connection also needs to reach the correct org, use a valid instance URL, access the required objects, and perform the operations your integration depends on. The safest way to test a connection is to move from a harmless authenticated request to resource-level access, then test write operations only when the…
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