# Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement connection options
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The following are connection options for Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement:
+ `ENTITY_NAME`(String) - (Required) Used for Read. The name of your object in Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement.
+ `PARDOT_BUSINESS_UNIT_ID` - (Required) Used for creating a connection. The business unit ID of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement instance you want to connect to.
+ `API_VERSION`(String) - (Required) Used for Read. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Rest API version you want to use.
+ `SELECTED_FIELDS`(List<String>) - Default: empty(SELECT \$1). Used for Read. Columns you want to select for the object.
+ `FILTER_PREDICATE`(String) -
  + In Sync mode - Default: empty. Used for Read. It should be in the Spark SQL format.
  + In Async mode - Default : Current `DateTime` value (as per user’s timezone) - 1 year. Used for Read.
+ `QUERY`(String) - Default: empty. Used for Read. Full Spark SQL query.
+ `PARTITION_FIELD`(String) - Used for Read. Field to be used to partition query.
+ `LOWER_BOUND`(String)- Used for Read. An inclusive lower bound value of the chosen partition field.
+ `UPPER_BOUND`(String) - Used for Read. An exclusive upper bound value of the chosen partition field.
+ `NUM_PARTITIONS`(Integer) - Default: 1. Used for Read. Number of partitions for read.
+ `INSTANCE_URL`(String) - (Required) Used for Read. A valid Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement instance URL.
+ `PARTITION_BY`(String) - (Required) Used for Read. The type of partitioning to be performed. "FIELD" is to be passed in case of field-based partitioning.
+ `TRANSFER_MODE`(String) - (Optional), Value to be used for running a job in ASYNC mode , if this option not provided job will run in SYNC mode.