ISVforce Guide

Welcome to the ISVforce Guide
ISVforce Quick Start
Grow Your AppExchange Business
Design and Build Your Solution
Overview of Packages
Components Available in Managed Packages
About API and Dynamic Apex Access in Packages
Architectural Considerations for Group and Professional Editions
Connected Apps
Create a Connected App
Edit, Reconfigure, or Delete a Connected App in Salesforce Classic
Install a Connected App
View Connected App Details
Manage a Connected App
Edit Connected App Behavior
Monitor Usage for an OAuth Connected App
Uninstall a Connected App
Environment Hub
Developer Hub
Notifications for Package Errors
Package and Test Your Solution
Pass the AppExchange Security Review
Publish Your Solution on AppExchange
Manage Orders
Manage Licenses
Manage Features
Provide a Free Trial of Your Solution
Support Your AppExchange Customers
Update Your Solution
Appendices
Glossary
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Manage a Connected App

The Connected Apps page lists all connected apps created or installed in the org from other orgs or from App Exchange. You can select an app to get more information and monitor its usage. You can also edit policies, for example, to specify a start URL, add your own connected apps handler, or enable user provisioning.
Available in: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience
Connected Apps can be created in: Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

Connected Apps can be installed in: All Editions

User Permissions Needed
To view the Connected Apps page: View Configuration
To read, create, update, or delete connected apps: Customize Application AND either

Modify All Data OR Manage Connected Apps
To update all fields, except Profiles, Permission Sets, and Service Provider SAML attributes: Customize Application AND either

Modify All Data OR Manage Connected Apps
To update Profiles, Permission Sets, and Service Provider SAML attributes: Customize Application AND Modify All Data
To install and uninstall connected apps: Customize Application AND either

Modify All Data OR Manage Connected Apps
To install and uninstall packaged connected apps: Customize Application AND either

Modify All Data OR Manage Connected Apps

AND Download AppExchange Packages
  1. To view and update properties of a connected app, from Setup, enter Connected Apps in the Quick Find box, then select Connected Apps.
  2. Click the name of the connected app to view its detail page.
  3. Click Edit Policies to change the app’s configuration. For example, specify a start URL, add your own connected app handler, add custom attributes, or enable user provisioning. To tighten user access, under OAuth Policies, set Permitted Users to Admin-approved users are pre-authorized.

Sessions refresh automatically between every 15 minutes and 24 hours while a user is in the connected app. The refresh is based on the session timeout value set for your org. The refresh is often undetected by the user.

Note

Connected Apps Installed by Salesforce

Some Salesforce client apps, such as the Salesforce app and Salesforce for Outlook, are implemented as connected apps. Salesforce automatically installs them in your org.

Salesforce distributes these client-type connected apps in two managed packages: one for Salesforce for Android and Salesforce for iOS and one for other mobile apps. The connected apps included in the package change with each release. Salesforce installs the package the first time a user accesses one of the apps.

To install or reinstall the Salesforce app package for connected apps, you can install it from App Exchange.

Salesforce packages appear in Setup under the Installed Packages List.

The packages in the Installed Packages List

Click a package name to see the list of components. The following are some components in the Salesforce Connected Apps package.

The components of the Salesforce Connected Apps

The Force.com IDE and Ant Migration tool are “wrapper” connected apps that use the SOAP API to connect to Salesforce instead of OAuth, which other types of connected apps do. They still use the connected apps framework to allow or deny users access to the apps in an org.

Note

The following are some components for the Salesforce app and Chatter app packages.

The components of the Salesforce1 and Chatter Apps
You can manage installed connected apps from the Connected Apps page.
  1. From Setup, enter Connected Apps in the Quick Find box, then selected Connected Apps.
  2. View the list of connected apps. The connected apps that Salesforce installs appear in the list as installed by a managed package. They appear along with your other installed connected apps.
Example of the list of connected apps

Connected Apps Installed from the Connected Apps OAuth Usage Page

In addition to the connected apps installed from managed packages, this list contains OAuth connected apps installed from the Connected Apps OAuth Usage page.