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Post to Chatter Actions

Post to the feed for a specific record, user, or Chatter group.

Use a Post to Chatter action to post a message at run time to a specified feed. Post to Chatter supports @mentions and topics, but only text posts are supported.

This object is available in API version 32.0 and later.

Supported REST HTTP Methods

URI
Get a list of available post to Chatter actions:
/vXX.X/actions/standard/chatterPost
Formats
JSON, XML
HTTP Methods
GET, HEAD, POST
Authentication
Authorization: Bearer token

Inputs

Input Details
subjectNameOrId
Type
string
Description
Required. Reference to the user, Chatter group, or record whose feed you want to post to.
  • To post to a user’s feed, enter the user’s ID or Username. For example: jsmith@salesforce.com
  • To post to a Chatter group, enter the group’s Name or ID. For example: Entire Organization
  • To post to a record, enter the record’s ID. For example: 001D000000JWBDx
text
Type
string
Description
Required. The text that you want to post. Must be a string of no more than 5000 characters.

To mention a user or group, enter @[reference], where reference is the ID for the user or group that you want to mention. The reference can be a literal value, a merge field, or a flow resource.

To add a topic, enter #[string], where string is the topic that you want to add.

For example, the string Hi @[005000000000001] check this out #[some_topic]. is stored appropriately as Hi @Joe, check this out #some_topic. where “@Joe” and “#some_topic” are links to the user and topic, respectively.
type
Type
picklist
Description
Required only if subjectNameOrId is set to a user name or a Chatter group name. The type of feed that you want to post to.
  • User—Enter this value if subjectNameOrId is set to a user’s Username.
  • Group—Enter this value if subjectNameOrId is set to a Chatter group’s Name.

Outputs

Output Details
feedItemId
Type
reference
Description
The ID of the new Chatter feed item.