Integrate Salesforce Service Cloud Chat and Case with Tethr

This article shows you how to import your customer chat and case message transcripts and their metadata by integrating the Salesforce Service Cloud chat or case platform with Tethr. In this article, we cover the Salesforce side of the integration, including how to create a Tethr Connected App in Salesforce to provide Tethr what we need to import your chats or cases.

What we cover:

1. Create a new Tethr Connected App in Salesforce

2. Provide the app credentials to Tethr

3. Permit IP Traffic between Salesforce and Tethr via API

4. Work with Tethr to enable and automate chat or case retrieval

Before you begin:

• You need a Salesforce account with administrator privileges to create the connected app. This account will connect Salesforce with Tethr’s batch ingestor to retrieve your chats or cases.
• Be sure your organization has also created a generalized Salesforce integration user account. You share this account's credentials with Tethr to build the secure chat or case integration.

Getting started: Using your administrator privileges, log into Salesforce as a generalized Salesforce integration user. Under the Home tab in Salesforce Setup, search for “App Manager” in the search bar and select it to open up the Lightning Experience App Manager setup.

Create a new Tethr Connected App in Salesforce

1. In the App Manager, click on New Connected App.
2. Complete the following Basic Information fields:
   
   a) Connected App Name: give your connected app a name that indicates the type of integration. For example, “Tethr Connected App”.
   b) Contact Email: enter your Tethr Integrations Specialist’s email address: support@tethr.com
   c) Entering a Description is optional, but we suggest describing the specific type of connected app you’re creating. For example, “Batch imports chats and metadata from Salesforce into Tethr”.
   
   
   
   
3. Complete the following API (Enable OAuth Settings) fields:
   
   a) Be sure to checkmark both boxes for Enable OAuth Settings and Enable for Device Flow. This will generate the integration’s callback URL automatically.
   b) Select “Access and manage your data (api)” as the Selected OAuth Scope.
   c) Keep Require Secret for Web Server Flow option checked.
   d) Select Save and Continue to create your new Tethr Connected App.
   
   
   
   
   Note: Salesforce will notify you that it will take between two and ten minutes to update the server, which is expected.
4. Once you’ve selected Continue, both a Consumer Key and a Consumer Secret identification string will be generated as shown below. Tethr will need both of these strings as well as the username and password of a generalized Salesforce integration user account to build a secure chat or case integration.
   
   
   
   Required: Please provide Tethr with the credentials for a generalized integration user account that your organization has created in Salesforce. This prevents you from needing to provide any personally identifiable Salesforce account information to Tethr and ensures the username and password provided to Tethr will not change over time.
5. Finally, we’ll need a security token from the generalized Salesforce integration user account we mentioned in the Before you begin section. Typically, this security token has already been generated and saved somewhere.
   
   a) The security token can be regenerated in the user Settings under the user profile as follows:
   
   
   
   b) Within the user Settings, using Quick Find search bar, search for “security token.” Select the result “Reset My Security Token” and click the button to Reset Security Token. This will deliver the token via email to the integration user’s email address.
   
   
   
   
   Important: If you don’t see an option to “Reset My Security Token” when you search, it’s likely due to Login IP Restrictions enforced on the user profile. Follow the instructions below to loosen the restrictions and allow Salesforce to connect with Tethr via the API.

Permit IP traffic between Salesforce and Tethr via API

If you don’t see an option to “Reset My Security Token” when you search, it’s likely due to Login IP Restrictions enforced on the user profile. To permit IP traffic between Salesforce and Tethr via the API:

1. From the Setup screen, search for “connected” and select Manage Connected Apps.
2. Choose the new record you created in step 2a (in the Create a new Tethr Connected App in Salesforce section) from the list of Connected Apps. In our example, this would be labeled “Tethr Connected App.”
   
   
   
   
3. Next, select “Edit Policies,” change IP Relaxation to “Relax IP restrictions” and select Save.
   
   
   

Provide the app credentials to Tethr

Once you’ve created your Tethr Connected App, provide the following credentials to your Tethr Integrations Specialist. These Salesforce credentials are necessary to configure Tethr’s batch ingestor to retrieve chats or cases from Salesforce Service Cloud via the new Tethr Connected App. Credentials can be found within the Tethr Connected App once it’s been created and configured, covered in the section Create a new Tethr Connected App in Salesforce

1. Username of the account used for the connected app. Note that this should not be the username of the administrative account used to create the connected app.
2. The password of the account.
3. The Consumer Key.
4. The Consumer Secret.
5. And the Security Token.

Work with Tethr to enable and automate chat or case retrieval

Once we've verified that your chats or cases and their metadata are flowing from Salesforce Service Cloud into Tethr, and automated the process, you will work with a Tethr Customer Success Manager to begin generating insights about your customer interactions.