Heroku Connect Twitter Demo

This sample Node.js app monitors monitors tweets and synchronizes them back to Salesforce with Heroku Connect.

Instructions

• Create a Twitter application. You can use any URL for your website, and leave the Callback URL blank, but your app will need read/write permissions and an access token.

  • Click the Permissions tab and select Read and Write. Click Update Settings.
  • Click the Keys and Access Tokens tab, scroll down and click Create my Access Token. Leave this page open - you'll need the values for the consumer key and secret, and the access token and its secret when you deploy the demo code to Heroku in a few minutes.

• Create a Salesforce Developer Edition, or use an existing one

  • Add a Twitter Handle custom field (note the space in the name!) to Contact
  • Add a Hashtag custom field to Campaign
  • Create a custom object, Tweet, with the following custom fields:
    • Contact - Lookup Relationship to Contact
    • Campaign - Lookup Relationship to Campaign
    • Text - Text with length 255
  • Set the Twitter handle for a contact to one you can tweet from, and set the hashtag in a campaign.

• Deploy the demo code to Heroku. You'll be prompted for your Twitter app's keys and secrets. Make a note of the app's name - you'll need it for a later step.

  

• Once you've deployed, Click 'View it' at the bottom of the page to configure Heroku Connect.

  • Click Next to accept the suggested database and schema.
  • Click Authorize to link Heroku Connect to your Developer Edition.
  • Create a mapping for Contact
    • Enable mapping for the Twitter_Handle__c field
  • Create a mapping for Campaign
    • Enable mapping for the Hashtag__c field
  • Create a mapping for Tweet__c
    • Enable mapping for the Name, Contact__c, Campaign__c and Text__c fields.
    • Click DB -> SF and enable Write to Salesfore any updates to your Postgres database.

• Turn on the worker dyno in your new Heroku app. You can turn off the web dyno, since it's only used for configuration.

  heroku scale web=0 worker=1 --app your-app-name

• Tweet the hashtag, and, within a few seconds, you should see the tweet appear in Salesforce!

• You can access the source code for your app with

  heroku git:clone -a your-app-name

Not Working?

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