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# Salesforce Platform Features Supported by Salesforce Connect

Salesforce Connect provides seamless integration with the Salesforce Platform and enables users to view, search, and modify external object data.

### Required Editions

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          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience (not for high-data-volume
            external objects)</td>

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            <p>Available in: <strong>Developer</strong> Edition</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available for an extra cost
              in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong>
              Editions</p>
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Review the considerations for each Salesforce Connect adapter that you use to know more about Salesforce Platform feature support.

- **[Salesforce Connect Support for Reports](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_considerations_reports.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Depending on network latency and the availability of the external system, reports that include an external object can take a long time to run.
- **[Salesforce Connect Support for Record Feeds](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_considerations_chatter.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    View the Chatter feed associated with external object records you follow to see updates about the record. Following records helps keep you up to date on important changes to the external objects.
- **[Salesforce Connect Support for Quick Actions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_considerations_actions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    External objects support quick actions, except when the actions involve features or functionality that are incompatible with external objects.
- **[Salesforce Connect Support for Flows and Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_considerations_flow_process.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can build flows and processes that include external objects and automate your organization’s repetitive business tasks.
- **[Salesforce Connect Support for the Salesforce App](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_considerations_salesforce1.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can view and search external objects from the Salesforce mobile app, Salesforce on the go!
- **[Salesforce Connect Support for the Salesforce Console](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_considerations_console.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can access external objects from the Salesforce console only in Salesforce Classic. Other consoles, such as the Salesforce console in Lightning Experience, aren’t supported.
- **[More Features Supported by Salesforce Connect](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_general_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    External objects are available to Salesforce APIs, SOQL queries, SOSL and Salesforce searches, packages, Metadata API, change sets, and Lightning Experience app.

#### See Also

- [Salesforce Connect](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_about.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce Connect provides seamless integration of data across system boundaries by letting your users view, search, and modify data that’s stored outside your Salesforce org. For example, perhaps you have data that’s stored on premises in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Instead of copying the data into your org, you can use external objects to access the data in real time via web service callouts.")
- [External Data Sources With Salesforce Connect](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.platform_connect_writable_external_objects.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce Connect uses external data sources to access data that's stored outside your Salesforce org. You must configure an external data source and synchronize it to map its tables with external objects in Salesforce.")