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Synchronization Task Example

Synchronization
Task Example

Perform the following actions to post comments or feeds to Chatter:

You need to create a connection before you create a

synchronization

task.

Click

New

Tasks

Select

Synchronization Task

, and click

Create

The New Synchronization Task page appears.

Specify the task name, description, and select the task operation

Insert

To delete a feed or comment from Chatter select delete operation.

Click

The Source tab appears.

Select the source connection, source type, and source object.

The source object should contain the following fields when you post feeds or comments to Chatter or delete feeds or comments from Chatter:

User Feed: Specify the type as TextPost and mention the content of the post in the body.
Account Feed: To post an account feed, you must specify the Parent Id.
Content Post: Specify the type as ContentPost to attach a file to the feed.
Search Tag Feed: To add a search tag in a feed, you must append # to the keyword. The following image shows details of search tag feed:
Delete Feed: To delete a feed, select FeedItem object as a target in
Data Integration
. To delete a feed comment select FeedComment object as a target in
Data Integration
. You must specify the FeedID to delete feeds and commentID to delete feed comments from Chatter.

Select the target connection, target type, and target object for the task. To post feeds to Chatter, select FeedItem object. To post feed comments to Chatter, select FeedComment object. Click

To assign filters to a

synchronization

task, see Data Filters. To select all rows, click

Data Filters

, and then click

In the data filters tab, you can use the following filter fields:

Column Name	Description
ParentId	ID of the object type to which the FeedItem is related. For example, set this field to a UserId to post to someone’s profile feed, or an AccountId to post to a specific account.
Body	The message that appears in the feed. If you want to post a feed with the search keyword. In the feed make use of the # character before the search keyword. For example, if your search keyword is ABC, specify ‘#ABC’.
Type	You can select the following type of FeedItem: TrackedChange: A change or group of changes to a tracked field. UserStatus: Automatically generated status when a user adds a post. TextPost: Text entry on a feed. LinkPost: Post an URL on a feed. ContentPost: An uploaded file on a feed. PollPost: Post a poll in the feed to gather opinions. DashboardComponentSnapshot: Post a dashboard snapshot on a feed. ApprovalPost: Automatically generated by a feed query on an approval item. CollaborationGroupCreated: Automatically generated post on your feed when you creates a public group.
LinkUrl	To post URL on a feed.
RelatedRecordId	The ID of the ContentVersion object associated with a ContentPost. This field is null for all posts except ContentPost.
Title	The title of the FeedItem.
AttachmentPath	The location of the file to be attached to the feed. For example, C:\Test\ (Mandatory field for Content Post) .
ContentFileName	The name of the file that you want to attach.
ContentDescription	The description of the file to be attached to the feed.
RelatedRecordId	The ID of the ContentVersion object associated with a ContentPost. For example, set this field to an existing ContentVersion and post it to a feed as a FeedItem object of TypeContentPost.

To post a feed comment, use the following filter fields:

Field Name	Description
CommentFeedItemId	The Id of the feed to which the comment needs to be posted.
CommentBody	The text to be posted as comment.
CommentType	The comment Type should be TextComment or ContentComment.
CommentContentPath	The full path of the file to be attached to the FeedComment.
CommentContentDescription	The Description about the attachment.