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: /services/data/vXX.X/actions/standard/chatterPost

Formats: JSON, XML

HTTP Methods: GET, HEAD, POST

Authentication: Authorization: Bearer token

Inputs

Input Type Description
communityId reference Optional. Specifies the ID of an Experience Cloud site to post to. Valid only if Digital Experiences is enabled. Required if posting to a user or Chatter group that belongs to an Experience Cloud site. This value is available in API version 35.0 and later.
subjectNameOrId string 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. To post to a Chatter group, enter the group's Name or ID. To post to a record, enter the record's ID.
text string Required. The text that you want to post. Must be a string of no more than 10,000 characters. To mention a user or group, enter @[reference], where reference is the ID for the user or group. To add a topic, enter #[string], where string is the topic to add. For example, the string Hi @[005000000000001] check this out #[some_topic]. is stored as Hi @Joe, check this out #some_topic. where "@Joe" and "#some_topic" are links to the user and topic, respectively.
type picklist Required only if subjectNameOrId is set to a username or a Chatter group name. The type of feed to post to. Use User—if subjectNameOrId is set to a user's Username. Use Group—if subjectNameOrId is set to a Chatter group's Name.
visibility picklist Optional. Valid only if Digital Experiences is enabled. Specifies whether this feed item is available to all users or internal users only: allUsers or internalUsers. This value is available in API version 35.0 and later.

Outputs

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