Salesforce Chatter search feed

Nintex external platform is required for this feature. For details, see Enable Nintex external platform features.

Searches for feeds in the Authorizing user's Salesforce Chatter network.

Action settings

Following are the fields and options visible in the configuration settings dialog box for this action.

Field Description

Connection

Select a Salesforce connection.

For more information about connections, see Manage connections to external providers.

Older workflows created with manual authorization, such as those retained during upgrades, continue to require manual authorization. For these workflows, the following fields are available.

  • Username:

    • Specify the Salesforce username.

  • Password:

    • Specify the Salesforce password.

  • Security token: 

    Specify the Salesforce security token.

    Note: For more information on security tokens, refer to the following topic in Salesforce online help: "Resetting Your Security Token."

Search query

Specify the string to search. The search string must contain at least two characters, not including any wildcards and limited to 100 characters. Wildcards include the asterisk (*) and question mark (!), used as follows.

  • Asterisks (*) match zero or more characters at the middle or end (not the beginning) of your search term. For example, a search for john* finds items that start with john, such as, john, johnson, or johnny. A search for mi* meyers finds items with mike meyers or michael meyers.
  • Question marks (?) match only one character in the middle or end (not the beginning) of your search term. For example, a search for jo?n finds items with the term john or joan but not jon or johan.
Maximum results

Specify the maximum results to return.

Default value: 25. Valid values: 1-100. Default value is used if invalid value is specified.

Time zone

Specify the time zone to use for the dates.

Default value: UTC.

Output

Store output for this action using the following selections.

  • Dates: Specify a collection variable to store the feeds' posted in the specified timezone.
  • Feed type: Specify a collection variable to store the feeds' types.
  • IDs: Specify a collection variable to store the feeds' IDs.

  • Information: Specify a collection variable to store the feeds' text. The information includes who made the post, the type of feed and the recipient of the post.

    • ContentPost:
      • Post to self: "User1 uploaded a file 'MyFile.doc' with the message "This is my message"."
      • Post to user: "User1 uploaded a file 'MyFile.doc' to User2 with the message "This is my message"."
      • Post to group: "User1 uploaded a file 'MyFile.doc' to 'MyGroup' group with the message "This is my message"."
    • LinkPost:
      • Post to self: "User1 posted a link 'My Link' (URL: http://www.nintex.com) with the message "This is my message"."
      • Post to user: "User1 posted a link 'My Link' (URL: http://www.nintex.com) to User2 with the message "This is my message"."
      • Post to group: "User1 posted a link 'My Link' (URL: http://www.nintex.com) to 'MyGroup' group with the message "This is my message"."
    • PollPost:
      • Post to self: "User1 posted a message 'This is my message'."
      • Post to user: "User1 posted a message 'This is my message' to User2."
      • Post to group: "User1 posted 'This is my message.' to 'MyGroup' group."
    • TextPost:
      • Post to self: "User1 posted a poll 'Which movie do you want to watch at nintex?'."
      • Post to user: "User1 posted a poll 'Which movie do you want to watch at nintex?' to User2."
      • Post to group: "User1 posted a poll 'Which movie do you want to watch at nintex?' to 'MyGroup' group."
  • URLs: Specify a collection variable to store the feeds' web URLs.
  • Result count: Specify a numeric variable to store the number of results retrieved.

Depending on action requirements, you may be able to add and remove output variables.

To add an output variable

  1. Select an option from the Select more drop-down list.
  2. Click Add to display a drop-down list for the selected option.
  3. Select a previously defined workflow variable from the drop-down list.

To remove an output variable

  • Click Delete ().

    Note: Some output variables cannot be deleted. For example, the output variable URL for the action Bing news search cannot be deleted.