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DSimpsonDSimpson 

Trigger from Chatter to create Ideas in salesforce

My company wants to use a Chatter group to allow employees and customers to submit and comment on new product ideas. I need ot 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. When someone comments on that FeedItem, the new FeedComment updates the Idea object with the comment.

 

Does anyone have an example of creating a new Idea object each time a new Chatter post occurs?

 

 

DSimpsonDSimpson

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) {
        //find info and create new Idea object.
        
         
        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;
           
        }
    }