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description: Collaborate more effectively and improve processes by connecting the data across your Salesforce orgs. With the cross-org adapter, Salesforce Connect uses Lightning Platform REST API calls to access records in other Salesforce orgs. Nevertheless, setup is quick and easy with point-and-click tools.
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# Cross-Org Adapter for Salesforce Connect

Collaborate more effectively and improve processes by connecting the data across your Salesforce orgs. With the cross-org adapter, Salesforce Connect uses Lightning Platform REST API calls to access records in other Salesforce orgs. Nevertheless, setup is quick and easy with point-and-click tools.

### 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
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Your users and the Lightning Platform interact with other orgs’ data via external objects. The cross-org adapter for Salesforce Connect converts each of those interactions into a Lightning Platform REST API call.

Suppose that you store your inventory of products in one Salesforce org. You want your regional and local branch offices, who have their own orgs, to see the latest information about your stock. With the cross-org adapter for Salesforce Connect, those other organizations can easily access your data while respecting access restrictions that you control.

The cross-org adapter makes a Lightning Platform REST API call each time that:

- A user clicks an external object tab for a list view.
- A user views a record detail page of an external object.
- A user views a record detail page of a parent object that displays a related list of child external object records.
- A user performs a Salesforce global search.
- A user creates, edits, or deletes an external object record.
- A user runs a report.
- The preview loads in the report builder.
- An external object is accessed via flows, processes, APIs, Apex, SOQL, or SOSL.
- You validate or sync an external data source.

To set up Salesforce Connect with the cross-org adapter, you use only point-and-click tools.

- **[Subscriber and Provider Orgs in Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_subscriber_provider.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The provider org stores the data that the subscriber org accesses.
- **[API Names for External Objects and Custom Fields in Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_api_names.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    If external objects and custom fields are created in the subscriber org via syncing, their API names are derived from the corresponding API names in the provider org.
- **[Record IDs and External IDs for External Objects in Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_external_object_record_id.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    External object record IDs are derived from the corresponding record IDs in the provider organization. External ID values in external object records match the record IDs in the provider organization.
- **[User Access to External Data in Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_user_access.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    A user’s access to external data is determined by settings on both subscriber and provider orgs.

#### 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.")
- [Set Up Salesforce Connect to Access Data in Another Org with the Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Provide users with seamless access to data in your other Salesforce orgs so that they have a complete view of the business. Setting up the cross-org adapter for Salesforce Connect is quick and easy with point-and-click tools.")
- [Considerations for Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Understand the special behaviors, limits, and recommendations for using the cross-org adapter for Salesforce Connect.")