Connect in Apex

Use Connect in Apex to develop custom experiences in Salesforce. Connect in Apex provides programmatic access to B2B Commerce, CMS managed content, Experience Cloud sites, topics, and more. Create Apex pages that display Chatter feeds, post feed items with mentions and topics, and update user and group photos. Create triggers that update Chatter feeds.

Many Connect REST API resource actions are exposed as static methods on Apex classes in the ConnectApi namespace. These methods use other ConnectApi classes to input and return information. The ConnectApi namespace is referred to as Connect in Apex.

In Apex, you can access some Connect data using SOQL queries and objects. However, it’s simpler to expose data in ConnectApi classes, and data is localized and structured for display. For example, instead of making several calls to access and assemble a feed, you can do it with a single call.

Connect in Apex methods execute in the context of the user executing the methods. The code has access to whatever the context user has access to. It doesn’t run in system mode like other Apex code.

For Connect in Apex reference information, see ConnectApi Namespace.