Connected App in Salesforce

What is Salesforce Connected App & How to create it in your Salesforce org?

Connected App is a framework which helps you to connect external application via standard protocols like-
-SAML
-OAuth- Majority of the developers use this protocol.
-OpenID Connect

Your Salesforce Conncted App use above protocols to Authorize, Authentication and helps to login via Single Sign-On method.
Salesforce has all control on Connected App- Usage Matrics.

Here is an Architecture diagram:

Explanation:

Service Now: It is an external application/tool use to manage the Incident, Service Requests to  

support projects.

Protocols: SAML/OAuth/OpenID Connect are use to communicate between your Salesforce Or and External Application.

Connected Apps use these protocols do authorize, authenticate and provide Single Sign-On for External Applications.

Now, I will show you that How to create Connected App in you Or.

Go to--> Setup--> Apps--> App Manager

Click on --> New Connected App option

Enter the required details:-

Enter the CallBack URL: https://dev1234.service-now.com/oauth_redirect.do (this URL is of  my Service-Now Tool)
& Select the OAuth Scope, Click on Add & Save

Click on Continue.

Hurray! 😃 You have created a Connected App which you can use while doing Integration with External Applications.

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