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DSimpson Chatter trigger to create new Idea record
Disclaimer: I'm a newbie at programming in Apex.
My company wants to use a Chatter group to allow employees and customers to submit and comment on new product ideas. I need to write a trigger so that when a new FeedItem is created on the New Ideas group in Chatter, it creates a new Idea record, linked to the FeedItem.
Does anyone have an example of creating a new Idea object each time a new Chatter post occurs?
This is what I have so far, and of course, I get an error just saying that Salesforce has been notified.
trigger createNewIdeaTrigger on FeedItem (before insert) {
for (FeedItem f: trigger.new)
{
Idea newIdea = new Idea(Categories = 'NewIdea', Status = 'New', Body = f.Body, CommunityId = '09a300000004gvG', Title = 'New Idea') ;
f.parentId = newIdea.Id;
newIdea.postID__c = f.Id;
insert newIdea;
}
}
Apparently, the only issues I had were the following:
a) for some reason, it wouldn't let me run this trigger in the "before Insert" -- only "after insert".
b) The parent.id wasn't write-able.
It now works.
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Apparently, the only issues I had were the following:
a) for some reason, it wouldn't let me run this trigger in the "before Insert" -- only "after insert".
b) The parent.id wasn't write-able.
It now works.
Hi,
This script doesn't work? I changed the community name, and this is my script:
trigger createNewIdeaTrigger on FeedItem (after insert) {
for (FeedItem f: trigger.new)
{
Idea newIdea = new Idea(Categories = 'NewIdea', Status = 'New', Body = f.Body, CommunityId = '09ab00000005QN4', Title = 'New Idea') ;
f.parentId = newIdea.Id;
newIdea.postID__c = f.Id;
insert newIdea;
}
}
But it says:
Error: Compile Error: Invalid field postID__c for SObject Idea at line 6 column 17
Thx