I ran into a small problem configuring tap-salesforce using the UI. The UI asks for a start date in the format of MM/DD/YYYY and then stores this in meltano.yml as YYYY-MM-DD. However, Salesforce needs the start date to be a timestamp and the job errors out unless you manually change the start date to a valid timestamp format.

start_date: '2019-01-01T00:00:00Z'

I was going to log an issue for this, but I wasn’t sure where the UI was in the source. Just the main Meltano project? https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano

@bryan_wise Thanks for reporting this! It's a known issue in the UI: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2233 that I think would be most appropriately fixed for

start_date

*or all

date_iso8601

settings) across the board: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2234 I've added some notes on implementation to that issue: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2234#note_471598899 Would you be interested in a contributing a fix for this issue, by any chance? 🙂 I'll gladly help you figure out more of the implementation details.

@douwe_maan thanks for pointing our the existing issues. I’m not sure I’m technical enough to help with these issues, but I might be able to get some time from someone on my team. I’ll take a look at them and see what we can do to help. I’m excited to be using Meltano and would like to find a way to contribute.

@bryan_wise I'm excited to have you on board get your feedback! 🙂 We're not currently prioritizing the UI, so I won't get to that issue myself any time soon, but I'll gladly help your team figure it out. In general, you're gonna have a better experience with the CLI, though. Is that acceptable for your use case?

yep. My mindset in setting this up has been using the GUI to bootstrap my environment and then manually tweaking things in via CLI or directly editing yml files. Would you be open to a quick meeting the first week of the year to go over contributing to the project?

@bryan_wise For sure, feel free to grab a slot on https://calendly.com/douwem/half-hour-meeting?month=2021-01!