UserProfileFeed

Represents a user profile feed, which tracks all actions by a user on records that can be tracked in a feed. This feed is displayed on the user profile page. A user can subscribe to a record so that changes to the record are displayed in the Chatter feed on the user's home page, which is a useful way to stay up-to-date with changes made to records in Salesforce. Feeds are available in API version 18.0 and later.

Supported Calls

delete(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve()

Fields

Field Details
Body
Type
textarea
Properties
Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description
The content of the FeedItem. Required when Type is TextPost. Optional when Type is ContentPost or LinkPost. This is the message that appears in the feed.
CommentCount
Type
int
Properties
Filter, Group, Sort
Description
The number of FeedComments associated with this feed item.
ContentData
Type
base64
Properties
Create, Nillable
Description
The file uploaded to the feed. Required if Type is ContentPost. Encoded file data. Cannot be 0 bytes. Can be any format. Setting this field automatically sets Type to ContentPost.
ContentDescription
Type
textarea
Properties
Create, Nillable, Sort
Description
The description of the file specified in ContentData.
ContentFileName
Type
string
Properties
Create, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
The file uploaded to the feed. Required if Type is ContentPost. The name of the file uploaded to the feed. Setting ContentFileName automatically sets Type to ContentPost.
ContentSize
Type
int
Properties
Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
Read only. Automatically determined during insert. The size of the file (in bytes) uploaded to the feed.
ContentType
Type
string
Properties
Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
Read only. Automatically determined during insert. The MIME type of the file uploaded to the feed.
CreatedDate
Type
dateTime
Properties
Defaulted on create, Filter, Sort
Description
Date and time when this record was created. This is a standard system field.

Ordering by CreatedDate DESC sorts the feed by the most recent feed item.

FeedPostId
Type
reference
Properties
Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
This field was removed in API version 22.0, and is available in earlier versions for backward compatibility only.

ID of the associated FeedPost. A FeedPost represents the following types of changes in an FeedItem: status updates, changes to tracked fields, text posts, link posts, and content posts.

InsertedById
Type
reference
Properties
Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
ID of the user who added this object to the feed. For example, if a client application migrates multiple posts and comments from another application into a feed, then InsertedById is set to the ID of the logged-in user.
IsDeleted
Type
boolean
Properties
Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort
Description
Indicates whether the record has been moved to the Recycle Bin (true) or not (false). This is a standard system field.
LastModifiedDate
Type
dateTime
Properties
Defaulted on create, Filter, Sort
Description
Date and time when this record was last modified by a user. This is a standard system field.

When a feed item is created, LastModifiedDate is the same as CreatedDate. If a FeedComment is inserted on that feed item, then LastModifiedDate becomes the CreatedDate for that FeedComment. Deleting the FeedComment does not change the LastModifiedDate.

Ordering by LastModifiedDate DESC sorts the feed by both the most recent feed item or comment.

LikeCount
Type
int
Properties
Filter, Group, Sort
Description
The number of FeedLikes associated with this feed item.
LinkUrl
Type
url
Properties
Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description
The URL of a LinkPost.
ParentId
Type
reference
Properties
Filter, Group, Sort
Description
ID of the user profile that is tracked in the feed. The feed is displayed on the detail page for this record.
RelatedRecordId
Type
reference
Properties
Create, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
ID of the ContentVersion object associated with a ContentPost. This field is null for all posts except ContentPost.

For example, set this field to an existing ContentVersion and post it to a feed as a FeedItem object of TypeContentPost.

Title
Type
string
Properties
Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description
The title of the FeedItem. When the Type is LinkPost, the LinkUrl is the URL and this field is the link name.
Type
Type
picklist
Properties
Create, Filter, Group
Description
The type of FeedItem:
  • UserStatus—automatically generated when a user updates their status
  • TrackedChange—a change or group of changes to a tracked field
  • TextPost—a direct text entry on a feed
  • LinkPost—a URL posting on a feed
  • ContentPost—an uploaded file on a feed
  • DashboardComponentSnapshot—a posting of a dashboard snapshot on a feed.
  • ApprovalPost—automatically generated by a feed query on an approval item.
The following values appear in the Type picklist for all feed objects but apply only to CaseFeed:
  • CaseCommentPost—generated event when a user adds a case comment for a case object.
  • EmailMessageEvent—generated event when an email related to a case object is sent or received.
  • CallLogPost—generated event when a user logs a call for a case through the user interface. This event is also generated by CTI calls.
  • ChangeStatusPost—generated event when a user changes the status of a case.
  • AttachArticleEvent—generated event when a user attaches an article to a case.
  • ActivityEvent—generated event when a user adds or updates an Event or a Task.
Note
If you set Type to ContentPost, you must specify ContentData and ContentFileName.

Usage

Use this object to query and retrieve record changes tracked in a user profile feed. Note the following when working with user profile feeds:

Users that do not have the “View All Data” permission have the following limitations when querying records:

Tip
To query for the most recent feed items, you should ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC, Id DESC.

You can’t query FeedTrackedChange and FeedComment records that are a child of a UserProfileFeed record directly. They can only be queried via the UserProfileFeed. For example, the following query returns information, including child FeedTrackedChange records:

SELECT ID, CreatedDate, CreatedById, CreatedBy.FirstName, CreatedBy.LastName, ParentId, Parent.Name,
        (SELECT ID, FieldName, OldValue, NewValue FROM FeedTrackedChanges ORDER BY ID DESC)
      FROM UserProfileFeed
      WITH UserId = '005D0000001AamR'
      ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC, Id DESC
      LIMIT 20

Note the following SOQL restrictions.

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