MANUAL
Forms Management System: www.formdesk.com
 
 

 

Webhook: Salesforce Web to Lead - Automatically create your Salesforce leads

 
This webhook enables you to gathering Formdesk form entries within Salesforce Web-to-Lead

Form contact details can be forwarded automatically to Salesforce, from which they can then be further addressed.


This document contains the following subjects:

How it works
Instructions
Test the webhook
 

How it works

When sending in the form, the data of the fields that were pre-set up, will be forwarded to Salesforce through the Salesforce Web-to-Lead options.
 

Instructions

 
In Salesforce:
To be able to use this webhook, a Web-to-Lead form needs to be created within Salesforce. Follow these steps:

• Login on your Salesforce account.
• In the top-right corner click on the arrow next to your name and next click “Setup”.
• In the menu on the left click on “Customize” > “Leads” > “Web-to-Lead”.
 
 
• Click the button “Create a Web-to-Lead form”.
• Now add fields that you want to include on your form.
• leave “Return URL” empty.
• Click the button “Generate”.
 
 
• HTML code will be generated.
 
 
• Write down the values of each form “name” attribute (example: shaded parts in screenshot below):
 
 
In Formdesk:

Form
Ensure that the Formdesk form contains the fields which need to be forwarded to Salesforce.

Webhook
On the Settings Tab go to "Webhooks" and choose "New webhook..."
 
 
General
Select the webhook “Salesforce”, several fields will now be set automatically.

Data
At the section “Data” the following values need to be changed:
• oid: your Salesforce organisation ID, as you will find in the generated code
• Now create the mapping between the Salesforce fields and the Formdesk identifiers, See example below. You can also include additional mapping rules.
 
 
• Click OK to save the webhook.
 

Test the Webhook

Go to the Questions Tab, click on "Test form", fill in the form and submit it.
Afterwards check whether the data is added to Salesforce:
• Login on your Salesforce account.
• Go to the "Leads” Tab, choose “Today's Leads" and click the button “Go”.
• Check whether the data of the completed form is received as Lead.