Connect to Salesforce Marketing Data and Transfer Data in Talend

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Salesforce Marketing into your workflow in Talend. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Salesforce Marketing to transfer Salesforce Marketing data in a job flow in Talend.

Connect to Salesforce Marketing in Talend as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Salesforce Marketing:

1. Add a new database connection to Salesforce Marketing data: To add a new connection, expand the Metadata node, right-click the Db Connections node, and then click Create Connection.
2. In the resulting wizard, enter a name for the connection.

3. On the next page, select Generic JDBC from the DB Type menu and enter the JDBC URL.

   Authenticating to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs

   Set the User and Password to your login credentials, or to the credentials for a sandbox user if you are connecting to a sandbox account.

   Connecting to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs

   By default, the data provider connects to production environments. Set UseSandbox to true to use a Salesforce Marketing Cloud sandbox account.

   The default Instance is s7 of the Web Services API; however, if you use a different instance, you can set Instance.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Salesforce Marketing JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.sfmarketingcloud.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical JDBC URL is below:

   jdbc:sfmarketingcloud:User=myUser;Password=myPassword;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.sfmarketingcloud.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Right-click the connection and then click Retrieve Schema.
6. Click Next with the default options to select the tables you want to import.
7. Finish the wizard with the default options.

Output the Subscriber Table to a Flat File

You can follow the procedure below to transfer the Subscriber table to a flat file output component:

1. In the Table Schemas node, drag the tables to the workspace.
2. In the dialog that is displayed, select the tJDBCInput component.
3. Next, drag a tFileOutputDelimited component from the Business Intelligence tab of the Palette into the workspace.
4. Right-click the Subscriber tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.

Run the project to transfer the data.