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Can we deactivate chatter for a specific object OX and profile PY pair? Or make read-only if that's a thing.
The issue is that profile PY must use chatter normally on other objects and object OX needs chatter activated for other profile types. So this has to be a profile-object combination permission. Can we get that fine-grained in SF or has anyone figured out a workaround?
There are at least two workarounds. Both solutions will render the object's feed items read-only. There's no way to completely disable feed items on an object on a per-profile basis.
Create a new page layout, remove the Chatter actions, assign to the profile.
Create a new trigger on FeedItem, and you can block the actions.
trigger BlockItems on FeedItem (before insert) {
if(0 < [select count() from profile where id = :userinfo.getprofileid() and name = 'restricted']) {
for(FeedItem item: Trigger.new) {
if(item.ParentId.getSobjectType() == SomeObject__c.SobjectType) {
item.addError('You cannot add a post to to this type of record.');
}
}
}
}
