Programmatically Create Chatter Group and Associate a Group Record to it

Question

I am trying to create a chatter group via apex and assign a record to it as the group record. Now I have this code to create the Chatter group:

CollaborationGroup myGroup = new CollaborationGroup();
myGroup.Name='TEST (DAV) - SALESFORCE 2';
myGroup.CollaborationType='Private'; //can be 'Public' or 'Private'                   
insert myGroup;

This works great, it creates the group, but now I want to add a record to the group. I believe it has something to do with CollaborationGroupRecordbut I cannot seem to find code on this. I believe it should be a process where I create the chatter group as highlighted before then create a collaboration group record which is then associated with the chatter group.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to do this. Here are some samples to attach a record with an ID of recordId.

Method 1: CollaborationGroupRecord

ColloborationGroupRecord groupRecord = new ColloborationGroupRecord();
groupRecord.RecordId = recordId;
groupRecord.CollaborationGroupId = myGroup.Id;
insert groupRecord;

Method 2: ConnectApi.ChatterGroups.addRecord()

ConnectApi.ChatterGroups.addRecord(null, myGroup.Id, recordId);

Your group isn't in a community, but if it was, you'd have to add the NetworkId for Method 1, and the communityId instead of null for Method 2.

Answer 2

This should help you somehow : https://c.getsatisfaction.com/dbamp/topics/sf-replicateall-failing-with-summer-15-release

See More here https://rakeshistom.wordpress.com/tag/collaborationgrouprecord/

I may be doing mistake here but - for a curiosity can you try inserting CollaborationGroupFeed and giving this records id in ColloborationGroupRecord field "RecordId"

ColloborationGroupRecord  obj = new ColloborationGroupRecord ();
obj.recordid=myCgroupFeed.id;
obj.CollaborationGroupId=myGroup.id;
insert obj;