Salesforce Architect's Handbook: A Comprehensive End-to-End Solutions Guide

Appendix A: Salesforce Authorization Flows

This appendix will provide a flow diagram for each Salesforce authorization flow to assist an architect in choosing the correct authorization flow when designing system access to and from Salesforce. This appendix will focus on the nine primary authorization flows used in Salesforce, including

• Web Server Flow

• User-Agent Flow

• JWT Bearer Flow

• Device Flow

• Asset Token Flow

• Username and Password Flow

• Refresh Token Flow

• SAML Assertion Flow

• SAML Bearer Assertion Flow

Note

Any other authorization flows indicated in Chapter 7 not listed here are a variation of one of the nine authorization flows mentioned in this appendix. Hence, to avoid redundancy of content, only the preceding nine flows have been covered in this appendix. ...