Configuring a Salesforce plugin for Amazon Q Business - Amazon Q Business
PrerequisitesService access rolesCreating a plugin

Configuring a Salesforce plugin for Amazon Q Business

Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool for managing customer interactions. If you’re a Salesforce user, you can create an Amazon Q Business plugin to allow your end users to perform the following actions from within their web experience chat:

  • Managing cases (create, delete, update, get)

  • Retrieving account lists

  • Handling opportunities (create, update, delete, get, fetch specific)

  • Fetching specific contacts

To set up this plugin, you'll need configuration details from your Salesforce instance to connect Amazon Q Business with Salesforce.

For more information on how to use plugins during your web experience chat, see Using plugins.

Prerequisites

Before you configure your Amazon Q Salesforce plugin, you must do the following:

  • As an admin, create a new OAuth 2.0 Salesforce app in the Salesforce developer console with scoped permissions for performing actions in Amazon Q. To learn how to do this, see Create a Connected App in Salesforce for OAuth in Salesforce Developer Documentation.

  • Make sure to select Yes for Enable Authorization Code and Credential Flow, Require Secret for Web Server Flow, Require Secret for Refresh Token Flow, Enable Token Exchange Flow, and Require Secret for Token Exchange Flow.

  • Make sure that the following required scopes are added:

    • refresh_token

    • id

    • api

    • full

  • Note the domain URL of your Salesforce instance. For example: https://yourInstance.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v60.0.

  • Note your:

    • Access token URL – For Salesforce OAuth applications, this is https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token.

    • Authorization URL – For Salesforce OAuth applications, this is https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize.

    • Redirect URL – The URL to which user needs to be redirected after authentication. If your deployed web url is <q-endpoint>, use <q-endpoint>/oauth/callback . Amazon Q Business will handle OAuth tokens in this URL. This callback URL needs to be allowlisted in your third-party application.

    • Client ID – The client ID generated when you create your OAuth 2.0 application in Salesforce.

    • Client secret – The client secret generated when you create your OAuth 2.0 application in Salesforce.

    You will need this authentication information during the plugin configuration process.

Service access roles

To successfully connect Amazon Q to Salesforce, you need to give Amazon Q the following permission to access your Secrets Manager secret to get your Salesforce credentials. Amazon Q assumes this role to access your Salesforce credentials.

The following is the service access IAM role required:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [{
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:secretsmanager:{{your-region}}:{{your-account-id}}:secret:[[secret-id]]"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

To allow Amazon Q to assume a role, use the following trust policy:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "QBusinessApplicationTrustPolicy",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "Service": "qbusiness.amazonaws.com"
      },
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:SourceAccount": "{{source_account}}"
        },
        "ArnLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn":"arn:aws:qbusiness:{{your-region}}:{{source_account}}:application/{{application_id}}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

If you use the console and choose to create a new IAM role, Amazon Q creates the role for you. If you use the console and choose to use an existing secret, or you use the API, make sure your IAM role contains these permissions.

Creating a plugin

To create a Salesforce plugin for your web experience chat, you can use the AWS Management Console or the CreatePlugin API operation. The following tabs provide a procedure for creating a Salesforce plugin using the console and code examples for the AWS CLI.

Console

To create a Salesforce plugin

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Q console.

  2. From the Amazon Q console, in Applications, select the name of your application from the list of applications.

  3. From the left navigation menu, choose Actions, and then choose Plugins.

  4. For Plugins, choose Add plugin.

  5. For Add plugins, choose Salesforce.

  6. For Salesforce, enter the following information:

    1. In Plugin name, for Name – A name for your Amazon Q plugin. The name can include hyphens (-), but not spaces, and can have a maximum of 1,000 alphanumeric characters.

    2. In Domain URL, for URL – Enter your Salesforce domain URL. For example, https://yourInstance.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v60.0.

    3. OAuth 2.0 authentication – do the following:

      1. For AWS Secrets Manager secret – Choose Create and add a new secret or Use an existing one. Your secret must contain the following information:

        • Secret name – A name for your Secrets Manager secret.

        • Client ID – The client ID generated when you create your OAuth 2.0 application in Salesforce.

        • Client secret – The client secret generated when you create your OAuth 2.0 application in Salesforce.

        • For Redirect URL – The URL to which user needs to be redirected after authentication. If your deployed web url is <q-endpoint>, use <q-endpoint>/oauth/callback . Amazon Q Business will handle OAuth tokens in this URL. This callback URL needs to be allowlisted in your third-party application.

      2. For Access token URL – For Salesforce OAuth applications, this is https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token.

      3. For Authorization URL – For Salesforce OAuth applications, this is https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize.

    4. Service access – Choose Create and add a new service role or Use an existing service role. Make sure tha your service role has the necessary permissions.

  7. Tags – optional – An optional tag to track your plugin.

  8. Choose Save.

AWS CLI

To create a Salesforce plugin


aws qbusiness create-plugin \
--application-id application-id \
--display-name display-name \
--type SALESFORCE_CRM \
--server-url https://yourInstance.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v60.0 \
--auth-configuration oAuth2ClientCredentialConfiguration="{secretArn=<secret-arn>,roleArn=<role-arn>,authorizationUrl=<auth-url>,tokenUrl=<token-url>}"