Chatter is a feature of Salesforce.com that provides a way for users to collaborate with other users within a Salesforce organization. It has a Facebook like interface that allows users to follow records and other users, share files, update statuses, like posts, and post questions or comments at ...
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How can I show company Chatter Profile Photos on a Customer Portal site?
How can I display Photos from Company Chatter Profiles in a Customer Portal page?
The Url of the Photo requires a special authentication that even a logged in
Customer Portal user does not have, so ...
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Chatter “Groups” (or Queues) In Lieu Of Single Users?
I've searched already and believe the answer is NO, but thought I'd verify here with real-world users...
Is there a way in Chatter to tag a "Group of users" (perhaps a Queue?) instead of or in ...
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Error message with Chatter [closed]
One of my users reported getting a (405) method not allowed message when clicking the Comment in Chatter button in the email alert she received. Any ideas on what would cause this?
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Insert an image in Chatter Post
I want insert in a chatter post an image that i have uploaded. How can i reference this resource in my code?
I have different images loaded as static resources.
I have a chatter's post on profile of ...
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Birthday Chatter Post
I need to create a post with a message of happy birthday when it's the birthday of a user.
I have seen the code to create the post but I don't know how when to run it.
Should I write a trigger?
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Create ChatterMessage programatically?
I want to use Chatter to notify somebody of a particular even via code, but you can't create ChatterConversation objects via DML.
Is there a good way to do this other than by hooking into the Chatter ...
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Problem with EntitySubscription query and getting a Non-selective query exception
I have the following apex code that runs to get the EntitySubscriptions for a set of ids so they can be deleted to clean up the chatter feed.
public static List<EntitySubscription> ...
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What is a Chatter Post Alert?
In my packaging org on the page to add components to a package I today encountered a type I never heard of before: Chatter Post Alerts.
What is this? Even a google search did not help ;)
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Add multiple people to chatter group and NOT email notify them
I want to bulk add all my users to an ALL Company Chatter group, but i do not want to send out email notifications.
I know i can add people in bulk with DemandTools, I just do not want emails to go ...
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Chatter hashtag with a trigger
Is it possible to auto append a tag/hashtag to a Chatter feed item via a trigger? If so, is the syntax simply to wrap the hashtag in square brackets immediately following the hashtag? I've noticed ...
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Retrieve UserId of @mention user from chatter post in Apex
Is there a way to retrieve the user id of @mention user from chatter post in Apex? We can write a before insert trigger on feeditem, but when we display the body (which has @mention user) it simply ...
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How to (cross-domain) access Chatter Profile pics from Javascript code?
I have a JS library in a static resource. This library's code renders a with a Chatter Profile picture taken from the results of a
[SELECT FullPhotoUrl FROM User]
Or at least tries to.
This ...
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Malformed Query, failure to recognize Relationship; Cannot Sub-Select
hey guys my query for some reason is failing to understand the relationship here, though I'm being pretty explicit in my subselect. I've tried all three of the following and received three different ...
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Force Show the latest Chatter Feed Item relating to a record
Not really a question but something cool that might belong here, we had a customer that has a round robin process for lead assignment driven by a button. We from there are calling a hidden Visualforce ...
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SOAP Equivelant of RESTs /chatter/users/me/conversations?
Title pretty much says it, I know that in REST we query private conversations using the above endpoint /chatter/users/{ID}/conversations, but I'm not sure where to look for the same thing in SOAP. ...
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SOQL Selecting Chatter comments if been created or has been replied to in the last 24 hours
Hey guys I've been experimenting with different queries to try and get all Chatter Posts and their comments within the last 24hr period, but realize that doing this without Apex Triggers is much more ...
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SOQL Statement to get “Who commented on which author's post?”
I am trying to get a simple list of who in chatter commented on which authors post and I am struggling to get a correct SOQL. I want something like this
Bob -> Dave
Dave -> Martha
Bruce -> ...
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User role is grayed out when setting up another admin
I am trying setup another backup admin user for our Salesforce and in the user setup area the role field is grayed out and below it the only option is for chatter?
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How to get Chatter daily digest email for All Company Feed?
I can only subscribe to daily digest email for Chatter groups I am a member of.
How to get Chatter daily digests for All Company Feed?
Is this possible?
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Chatter for exceptions
I have a page that is doing a lot of heavy-lifting server-side and then showing up as a page-within-a-page on a custom object layout.
When something goes wrong (usually finding no available products) ...
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Tracking Feed Tracking Enable checkbox
i need to track changes whenever this Feed Tracking checkbox is enabled or disabled for Account Object. I need to have the visibility at user level. How do i track this? Please advice.
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Replying to Chatter Email Notifications
How to get dynamically Replying to Chatter Email address for a post feed item.
http://login.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/collab_email_reply.htm
Before replying, check the email address that ...
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Odd error when inserting Chatter post from Opportunity trigger
I have a trigger on my Opportunity object that executes after insert and simply posts a new FeedItem to a specific group within my instance when the Opportunity record Stage is set to "Signed". Here ...
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How can I specify a record (or parentId) for a postFeedItem to be posted to?
I am trying to create a chatter post using an APEX trigger, and I'm almost there. I've gotten to this point:
ConnectApi.ChatterFeeds.postFeedItem(null, ConnectApi.FeedType.News, 'me', feedItemInput, ...
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Creating a FeedItem Using Connect in APEX
My goal is to create a trigger/class that, when a Financial Account (custom object) has it's balance change by more than 20% in either direction, creates a chatter post informing users of the 'Big ...
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Does Chatter Answers come with Salesforce Knowledge?
We are a non-profit and got a quote on salesforce knowledge but does anyone know if that includes access to chatter answers?
Do portal users who access chatter answers have to pay extra for that?
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A Chatter Feed related to a Record as well as a Chatter Group
I have a business case where currently we post chatter feeds to a Chatter Group using Apex. This is done by assigning the CollaborationGroup (chatter Group) Id to the ParentId field on the FeedItem.
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How to Customize the Email template on chatter posts
I want to customize the email template sent on the chatter post of the record with the @user full name to have some fields from the record.
Is this possible, or how can I achieve this?
Please help.
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chatterfeed toggle not working post Spring '13
in my application I created a Javascript(posted below) to show and hide chatter feeds in the home page which was working fine till winter release.But post Spring '13 release the chatter toggle ...
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editing autofollow with salesforce chatter
So I have this idea to add a field to Contacts, where they autofollow Users they are associated with. My Idea is to be able to have User A create Contact A, and Contact A to be associated with (And ...
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Chatter in test case behaves different from actual usage, why?
I'm doing something in a visualforce controller for every attachment and chatter contentpost that is related to a particular case. Hoping to open-source it (pending employer ok), but for now I'll just ...
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Custom link or button to download most recent version of chatter file
Is there a particular url I can put into a custom link or button that will link to a chatter file, that when clicked will download the most recent version?
I know I can use the download url to get a ...
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How does Chatter Desktop work without needing to be set up as a Connected App
To access the REST api from an external app you need to configure the account for remote access, get a consumer id etc.
Why does the Chatter Desktop app not require this?
Presumably it is just ...
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Detecting chatter on a visualforce page
I have a VF page which uses standard controller (custom object). Basically I am overriding view action for a custom object. Now I have a section on this page which I want to show only if chatter is ...
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Can you access chatter Poll choices or poll votes?
When you create a chatter poll you create the poll choices separately so these are most likely a separate Sobject.
Is there any way to access either the choices in the poll or the votes for a ...
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sort chatter by most recent activity
Users are able to sort their chatter feeds by Post Date or Most Recent Activity. Is there a way (code or settings change) that will force the change to Most Recent Activity for all active users ...
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Change default Chatter location
Currently when a user goes to the Chatter tab, the default view is "What I follow". This is causing my users to accidentally post outside of specific groups. Is it possible to make users default to a ...
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Can I block Chatter Free users from seeing specific posts?
We want to bring additional users into our Chatter with Chatter Free licenses, but realized that some sensitive posts have been made outside of bespoke private groups. This is causing a problem since ...
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Dashboard Refresh to Chatter
Does anyone know if there is a way to have a dashboard refresh daily and automatically post to Chatter? It would be like scheduling a dashboard, but instead of emailing it to anyone, it would post to ...
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Sharing Feed Item with Chatter Group
I am capturing YouTube URLs in a Custom object, and I want to post new submissions to a chatter group. But I also want to take advantage of the nice inline youtube player in Chatter Feeds, which I ...
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Why would this Chatter REST Api Http POST return a 500 Server Error?
I'm using C#.Net to (upload) POST a new User Photo to Salesforce.
Using Fiddler I'm able to monitor the HTTP activity to and from my computer.
Here's the raw data I'm sending in the POST (with ...
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Chatter REST Api User Photo Example
I'm looking for an example that uses the Chatter REST Api to upload a User Photo.
The documentation explains the syntax, but they don't give an example of the HTTP form data to POST.
Elsewhere in ...
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Why does my Apex Chatter trigger title show up as “User name to User Name”?
I created an apex trigger that posts a new feeditem to a user's feed every time the opportunity status gets changed to "Closed Won". It works fine except for the fact that the post title says "John ...
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How to make the entityid of <chatter:feedWithFollowers /> point to the current user logged in?
I'm creating a visualforce page with standard features like chatter and I'm also adding a list of cases on that page which points to a case view. I want the entityid for "chatter:feedWithFollowers" to ...
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How to get the opportunity owner name instead of owner ID
I am posting to chatter using an apex trigger whenever the opportunity stage changes to a certain value. The problem I'm having is that I'm trying to concatenate the opportunity owner name with some ...
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Copy or Link the Chatter Post Files into Library
Wandering if there is any possibility to link the Chatter Post File into a specific Library and make it published.
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Post Install Script - Is it possible to run as a proper user?
I would like to create a CollaborationGroup when a managed package is installed. Currently I get an error 'INVALID_CROSS_REFERENCE_KEY, This user can't be added to the group.: []' when I run the ...
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Only receiving Single Result when querying HashtagDefinition
I have this query
List tagOptions = [SELECT Name FROM HashtagDefinition];
List<String> tagNameOptions = new List<String>();
for(HashtagDefinition htd : tagOptions){
...
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What is the best workaround for the lack of the FeedItem/FeedComment trigger firing when you like a Chatter post?
Unfortunately SFDC decided to not make the relevant triggers fire when you like a Chatter post. It also doesn't fire if someone comments on a Chatter post (the FeedItem object has both a LikeCount and ...
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Send chatter files with REST
When I upload a file from the directory (and save it as an attachment) and send it with REST webservices, it works great, but when I get a file from Salesforce (from chatter for example) it doesn't ...
