What is the difference between Chatter and Chatter feed in Salesforce?
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What is the difference between Chatter and Chatter feed in Salesforce?
Chatter feeds show you posts and comments you and other people make, as well as record updates across your Salesforce organization. Chatter Answers is a self-service and support community where users can post questions and receive answers and comments from other users or your support agents.
What is Salesforce Chatter feed?
Salesforce Chatter Feed is an interface wherein you and other Chatter users in your org can view profiles, updates, status messages, topic detail pages, on record detail pages, objects, and groups. Posts of people you follow on Chatter, as well as your own posts, can be seen on your Chatter feed.
Where is Chatter feed in Salesforce?
In Salesforce Classic, you typically access Chatter features from the sidebar on the Chatter tab. In Lightning Experience, access Chatter, colleagues’ profiles (People), and groups from the App Launcher. You can also get to these places from a tab or the overflow menu, depending on what’s showing.
Who feeds you can see on chatter in Salesforce?
Anyone except customers can see your posts on your profile, and the people who follow you can see your posts in their Chatter feed.
What shows up in Chatter feed?
Follow people and records to see updates about them in Chatter. Updates appear in feeds on profiles, groups, the Chatter tab, topic detail pages, and on record detail pages.
Can visualforce be used in the Chatter feed?
Yes, adding these components to your visual force page will make it appear almost identical to the chatter feed you are used to seeing in Salesforce.
How do I enable Chatter feed in Salesforce?
Enable Chatter feed tracking on the Review object.
- From Setup, enter Feed Tracking in the Quick Find box, then select Feed Tracking.
- In the list of available objects, click Review.
- Select Enable Feed Tracking.
- Select these fields: Core Competencies. Experience. Interviewer. Job Application. Leadership Skills.
- Click Save.
How do I display Chatter feed record?
View the Chatter feed associated with a record you follow to see updates about the record. Record feeds allow you to track information for records you have access to. On the record detail page, click Show Feed to display the record feed above the account details.
How does feed tracking work in Salesforce?
Feed tracking detects changes to tracked record fields and posts them as updates in the What I Follow feed. Users who follow a record, see those updates in their view of What I Follow, with one exception. Updates users make themselves aren’t posted to What I Follow. Users can see those updates in their profile feeds.
What is the difference between Chatter feed and chatter publisher?
Chatter Feeds. You have more options for formatting posts and adding attachments to posts in Lightning Experience. The Chatter publisher offers more controls for styling and adding content. Enhancements include things like inline images, hyperlinks, link to record, and code snippets.
How do I post to Chatter in Salesforce?
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. For example: [email protected].
- To post to a Chatter group, enter the group’s name or ID. For example: Entire Organization.
- To post to a record, enter the record’s ID.
How do I enable feeds in Salesforce?
Enable and Customize Feed Tracking
- From Setup, enter Feed Tracking in the Quick Find box, then select Feed Tracking.
- From the list of objects, select Contact (1).
- Select Enable Feed Tracking (2).
- Select up to 20 fields (3).
- Click Save.
How do I customize Chatter in Salesforce?
- From Setup, enter Group Layouts in the Quick Find box, then select Group Layouts.
- Click Edit next to the group layout that you want to customize, or click New to create a layout.
- From the palette on the top of the page, drag fields, buttons, and other user interface elements.
- To save the layout, click Save.
How do I see feeds in Salesforce?
What is the difference between feed tracking and history tracking?
Feed Tracking It won’t show modified values and old values for Multi-Picklist and Long Textarea fields. History tracking shows the following: Prior value – old value. Current value – value.
Is Salesforce retiring chatter?
We are planning to retire Chatter Feed Action Links on December 31, 2021. Since your organization currently uses that capability, we wanted to tell you how this impacts you.
