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Update Contact

Update fields on an existing Salesforce contact. Only the fields you supply change; everything else is left as-is. Use Find Records on Contact to get the record ID first. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Salesforce account once, then configure and run Update 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-update-contact",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    salesforce_rest_api: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    contactId: "Contact ID",
    Description: "Contact Description",
  },
})

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.

Update Contact inputs
Property Type Description
contactId Contact ID string
The ID of the Contact to update (Salesforce's 15- or 18-character record ID, e.g. 003XX000004TmiQ). Use SOQL Query to find the ID.
Required
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.
Optional
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-update-contact
Version
0.4.1
App
Salesforce
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes