Create or Edit a No Authentication External Credential
To support callouts to endpoints without authentication, create an external credential that uses the No Authentication protocol.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: all editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view external credentials: | View Setup and Configuration |
| To create, edit, or delete external credentials: | Manage Named Credentials or Customize Applications |
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Named Credentials, and then select Named Credentials.
- Click External Credentials.
- To create a new external credential, click New. To edit an existing external credential, click its link in the list of external credentials and then click Edit.
- Complete the fields.
Field Description Label A user-friendly name for the external credential that’s shown in the Salesforce user interface, such as in list views. Name A unique identifier that’s used to refer to this external credential from callout definitions and through the API.
The name can contain only underscores and alphanumeric characters. It must be unique, begin with a letter, not include spaces, not end with an underscore, and not contain two consecutive underscores.
Authentication Protocol Select No Authentication. - Save the external credential.
Create Principals for No Authentication Protocol
After you create an external credential that uses no authentication, create principals for it. To grant access, you map the principals to permission sets or profiles. A user making a callout must have permission to the principal.
- On the Named Credentials page, click External Credential.
- Select the external credential that you created.
- Scroll to Principals.
- To create a principal for the external credential, click New or
select Edit from the Actions menu of an existing principal.When editing an existing principal, not all the fields listed here are modifiable.
- Enter the information for the principal.
Field Description Parameter Name Enter a name for the principal, such as Admin or Marketing Group. Sequence Number Assign a sequence number. A sequence number specifies the order of principals to apply when a user participates in more than one principal. For example, a user could be part of multiple permission sets that are applicable for a credential provider. Priority is from lower to higher numbers. Identity Type Set to Named Principal. Not editable.
An external credential set up with named principal applies the same credential or authentication configuration for the entire org.
- Save the principal.You can’t modify the Principal Name and Identity Type of an existing principal. To change these parameters, delete the principal and recreate it.
Now that you created the external credential and its principal, it’s time to create the connected name credential. See Create or Edit a Named Credential. For an overview of all of the steps required to configure a named credential, see Create Named Credentials and External Credentials.
