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Create Contact

Create a Salesforce contact (a person associated with an account). Use Find Records on Account to get the AccountId that links this contact to a company. Use Describe Object on Contact to discover which fields your org requires. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Salesforce account once, then configure and run Create Contact from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "salesforce_rest_api-create-contact",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    salesforce_rest_api: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    Description: "Contact Description",
    Email: "Email",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Contact inputs
Property Type Description
Description Contact Description string
A description of the contact, up to 32 KB.
Optional
Email Email string
The contact's email address.
Optional
FirstName First Name string
The contact's first name, up to 40 characters.
Optional
LastName Last Name string
The contact's last name, up to 80 characters.
Required
Phone Business Phone string
Phone number for the contact.
Optional
additionalFields Additional Fields object
Other fields to set for this record as name -> value pairs. Values are parsed as JSON where applicable. Example: {"Industry": "Technology", "AnnualRevenue": 1000000}. Use Describe Object to discover valid field names.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
salesforce_rest_api-create-contact
Version
0.3.9
App
Salesforce
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes