Workbench is a powerful, web-based suite of tools designed for administrators and developers to interact with Salesforce.com organizations via the Force.com APIs. Workbench includes robust support for the Force.com Partner, Bulk, Rest, Metadata, and Apex APIs that allows users to describe, query, manipulate, and migrate both data and metadata in Salesforce.com organizations directly in their web browser with a simple and intuitive user interface. Workbench also provides many advanced features for testing and troubleshooting the Force.com APIs, such as customizable SOAP headers, debug logs for API traffic, backward compatibility testing with previous API versions, and single sign-on integration within the Salesforce application.

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Automatic Login with Workbench Tools Browser Extensions

After you have Workbench up and running, install Workbench Tools for Firefox or Workbench Tools for Google Chrome to get a new toolbar button in your browser to automatically log into Workbench from an active Salesforce.com session.

If you are logged into Salesforce, simply click the toolbar button and you will be automatically logged into Workbench. If you are not logged into Salesforce, the Firefox extension will simply direct you to the standard Workbench login screen. In Google Chrome, the extension will only be shown when logged into Salesforce.

The first time you use the extension, you will be prompted to provide your Workbench base URL. For example, if the login page for your Workbench instance is at http://localhost/workbench/login.php, just enter http://localhost/workbench. If you need to access the Options menu in the future, right-click on the toolbar button. Note, these browser extensions are not compatible with the public demo site at workbench.developerforce.com due to terms of service agreement and login CSRF requirements.

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