Does the Salesforce Connector Sync Digital Files?

Question

Some Salesforce tables, such as the ATTACHMENT table, contains digital files (for example, CSV, TSV, XLSX files). Does the Salesforce connector sync these digital files?

Environment

Connectors: Salesforce

Answer

We sync only the metadata of the digital files and not the content of these files. The data type of the attachment data that the Salesforce API sends and receives is base64 Binary encoded and our connector does not support the base64 data type. For more information, see our Salesforce connector documentation.

However, if you have the option of exporting these files as CSV or TSV files, you can use one of our File connectors to load this data into your destination.