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FeedComment

Represents a comment added to a feed by a user. Represents a comment added to a feed by a user.

Supported Calls

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

Special Access Rules

Note the following when working with feed comments:

  • You must have read access to the feed's parent type to see a FeedComment record.
  • 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 CreatedBy 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.
You can delete all feed items you created. To delete feed items you didn’t create, you must have one of these permissions:
  • “Modify All Data”
  • “Modify All” on the object associated with the feed as well as delete permission on the parent feed
  • “Moderate Chatter”

    Users with the “Moderate Chatter” permission can delete only the feed items and comments they see.

    Note

  • “Modify Unlisted Groups”

    Only users with this permission can delete items in unlisted groups.

Fields

Field Details
CommentBody
Type
textarea
Properties
Create, Filter, Sort
Description
The text in the comment.
CommentType
Type
reference
Properties
Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort
Description
The type of comment:
  • ContentComment—an uploaded file on a comment
  • TextComment—a direct text entry on a comment
Prior to API version 24.0, a text entry was required on a comment. As of version 24.0, a text entry is optional if the CommentType is ContentComment.
FeedItemId
Type
reference
Properties
Create, Filter, Group, Sort
Description
ID of the feed containing the comment.
InsertedById
Type
reference
Properties
Filter, Group, Sort
Description
ID of the user who added this object to the feed. For example, if a client application migrates multiple posts and comments from another application into a feed, then the InsertedBy value is set to the ID of the logged-in user.
ParentId
Type
reference
Properties
Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
ID of a record associated with the feed comment. For example, if you are commenting on a change to a field on Account, ParentId is set to the account ID.
RelatedRecordId
Type
reference
Properties
Create, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
ID of the ContentVersion object associated with a ContentComment. This field is null for all comments except ContentComment.

For example, set this field to an existing ContentVersion and post it to a comment as a FeedComment object of CommentTypeContentComment.

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.

    For example, the following query returns general information about a feed:
    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}
  • If you use an Apex trigger to modify the Body of a FeedComment object, all mentions hyperlinks are converted to plain text and the mentioned users don't get email notifications.

This object is hard deleted. It isn’t sent to the Recycle Bin.

Note