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Connection Menu

Connection Menu is one of the main menus shown in the top-right corner. It contains all actions related to the current Salesforce connection like view Connection details, navigate to Salesforce UI pages, etc.,


The Connection Menu deals with functionality specific to the current Connection. To open the Connection Menu, click on the connection name on the top right of the screen. It should show the below menu.

Menu ItemDescription
User Name and UsernameShows current user name and username. Click on this item to open User Info dialog
Toggle UI API Field NamesWhen you are viewing a record detail page, click on this shows the API Name of the fields displayed in detail tab.
Set User Language toOpens a sub-menu with list of Salesforce languages and selecting one sets the current user's profile language to selected one. This is quite helpful for QA team who wants to open the Salesforce interface in different language for testing.
Open Sfdc UIOpens a sub-menu with list of options which opens Salesforce UI pages including current user details view/edit page, Setup, Object Manager etc.,
Copy Login UrlConstructs a url with session id embedded which can be pasted into other browsers to login as this user
Disable Read-only forOpens a sub-menu with list of options to disable current connection's read-only flag, which would opens up to save changes to the org
Edit ConnectionOpens the dialog to edit the current connection where you can change the connection name, color and other attributes

Connection Details

Click on the Connection Menu -> <Connection Username> to show the details of the current Salesforce user and Org. Click on the Id to view its full details or view the record in the Sfdc UI