FeedComment

Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeSObjects(), query(), retrieve(), search()

Special Access Rules

Note the following when working with feed comments:

• A FeedComment record is visible when you have read access on the feed's parent type.
• You can add a comment if you have access to the feed.
• If the comment is related to a user record, the user can delete the comment. For example, if John Smith makes a comment about Sasha Jones, Sasha can delete the comment.
• If the logged-in user has the “Insert System Field Values for Chatter Feeds” user permission, the create field property is available on CreatedById and CreatedDate system fields for this object. This allows the logged-in user to set these fields to the original post author and creation date upon migration instead of accepting the system field value when migrated, which would be the logged-in user and the date the migration was performed, respectively. The fields can't be updated after migration.

Fields

Usage

As of API version 23.0 and beyond, if you have “View All Data” permission you can query FeedComment records directly, without an ID filter. However, if you don’t have “View All Data” permission, you can’t query FeedComment records directly, with or without an ID filter.

1SELECT ID, CreatedDate, CreatedById, CreatedBy.FirstName, 
2           CreatedBy.LastName, ParentId, Parent.Name, Body 
3FROM FeedItem 
4WHERE CreatedDate > LAST_MONTH 
5ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC, Id DESC

You can search for text in comments using SOSL. For example, the following Java class uses search() to find the string “foo” in any field of a record:

1public void searchSample() {
2  try {
3    SearchResult sr = connection.search("find {foo} in all fields " +
4        "returning feedcomment(Id, FeedItemId, CommentBody)");
5    // Put the results into an array of SearchRecords
6    SearchRecord[] records = sr.getSearchRecords();
7    // Check the length of the returned array of records to see
8    // if the search found anything
9    if (records != null && records.length > 0) {
10      System.out.println("Found " + records.length + " comments: ");
11      // Display each comment
12      for (SearchRecord record : records) {
13        FeedComment comment = (FeedComment) record.getRecord();
14        System.out.println(comment.getId() + ": " + 
15            comment.getCommentBody());
16      }
17    } else {
18      System.out.println("No records were found for the search.");
19    }
20  } catch (ConnectionException ce) {
21    ce.printStackTrace();
22  }
23}