How to test Salesforce Web-to-Lead in Sandbox
Posted on November 11, 2011 by Sean
First, create your Web-to-Lead form. To create your form, go to Setup -> Customize -> Leads -> Web-to-Lead and click the ‘Create Web-to-Lead Form’. Select your fields, enter your Return URL, and click ‘Generate’.
Select and copy all the generated HTML code and paste into a new text document.
Next, edit the form action in the new document to point to your Sandbox. The form action is the line of code below:
<form action="https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8" method="POST">
You’ll need to remove ‘www’ and replace with the subdomain from your Sandbox URL. For example, if my Sandbox URL is “https://na1.salesforce.com...”, my form action will be:
<form action="https://na1.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8" method="POST">
All I did above was change ‘www’ to ‘na1’.
Then, locate the line of code similar to below:
<input type=hidden name="oid" value="00Dxxxxxxxxxxxx">
This line is your Organization ID. The value must equal your Sandbox ID for Sandbox testing to work properly. To find your Organization ID, go to Setup ->Admin Setup -> Company Profile -> Company Information and then find the field ‘Salesforce.com Organization ID’.
Finally, save your document to your desktop as an HTML file. Open it. You should see a simple web form with the fields you selected in the first step. My example is below (your fields will likely be different):
Fill in your form as necessary and click ‘Submit’. Log into your Sandbox account, find your lead, and check your fields for accuracy.
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