Salesforce Developer Tutorial: How to do Custom Authentications for Integrations in Apex
In this episode we go over how and when you should build custom authentications (instead of using named credentials) when integrating with external systems in Apex.
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Go vote on next weeks video!
0:52 - Why create custom authentications for your integrations
4:29 - The importance of proofing with PostMan
7:57 - Setting up Custom Metadata to store Auth Credentials
9:33 - Setting up a Remote Site Setting
10:50 - The code to make a custom authentication work
24:20 - Key Takeaways
25:48 - Outro
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