Reader Overview

Salesforce uses a variant of SQL called the Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL). Wildcards, multi-table selects, and arbitrary joins are not supported. Refer to Salesforce’s SOQL Reference at http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/soql_sosl/index_Left.htm for information on how to construct SOQL queries. Refer to Salesforce’s Bulk Query Details at http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_asynch/Content/asynch_api_bulk_query.htm for information on SOQL restrictions that apply to the Salesforce Reader.

Newline characters in field values are stripped out by the Salesforce Reader.

Salesforce objects and records do not have geometry. All incoming features will not have geometry.

Salesforce fields of type base64 are not supported. Refer to the Attribute Types section for details.

To reduce bandwidth requirements and processing time, remove unused user attributes from the Salesforce Reader’s feature types.