Creating a record using Rest Explorer(Workbench) in Salesforce

I hope you are comfortable with rest api. So if you want to access/update the salesforce data, you can do that using standard salesforce rest api end point. So if you want to test this end point for data access/update, you can test that using workbench which is very simple and straigh-forward way.

So let’s say, you want to create a new account using standard salesforce rest api endpoint, then follow these steps-

1. Go to workbench and login using org credential. Then go to ‘utilities’ -> Rest Explorer.
2. Now select ‘Post’ from Http methods.
3. You will see some endpoints like this- /services/data/vxx.0. Add ‘/sobjects/Account’ to it.
4. Now paste your input json in the request body as shown in below screenshot and click on ‘Execute’.
5. In the response, you will see the id if record successfully created.

Similarly you can perform other operations like getting and updating data using rest explorer.