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Jan_S Site Guest user can't post a Chatter FeedItem
Hello,
Does anybody know how to post a chatter FeedItem object from a Site as Guest user? Guest user doesn't have write access to Chatter object and there is no configuration in Salesforce to allow it. Is there any design pattern / solution / workaround to this problem? The easiest way would be to use some kind of System.runAs() method to run my code as system admin, but unfortunately Saleforce supports that only in test methods :-/
Thanks in advance for any advice ,
Jan
I don't believe the guest user is allowed to post chatter updates.
Yeah, I've already realized that, but I don't even know how to workaround it :-/
We have integration with an external system which system calls us through our site (as Guest) and when it calls us we want to report a chatter event.
But as we don't have control over that external system we cannot force it to do any kind of login to salesforce to be authenticated. Maybe we should create a proxy server which accepts the calls and forwards them authenticated?! It seems overkill to me.
Any solutions or work arounds here?
My solution (workaround) was to:
1. create an object ChatterFeedItem, where we are storing the new chatter events to be posted
2. create a Schedulable job which processes records in ChatterFeedItem
3. start the job by Administrator to run once a minute
Note: to run a job in every minute requires another workaround: in the execute() method do this:
global void execute(SchedulableContext sc) {
// 1. do the job
doTheJob();
// 2. schedule a new job for next time
Datetime nextSchedule = Datetime.now().addMinutes(1);
scheduleJob(new ChatterJob(), nextSchedule);
// 3. abort this job
System.abortJob(sc.getTriggerId());
}
Yes that's the only possible. Long route, but the only route :(
Thanks for detailed solution, that will be helpful for others.
What about sending an email from the controller to a mail service? Email handlers run inside a user context.
I have that exact problem now. GitHub is sending my Feedback system commit messages and I want to update the items with the commit messages.
Groan.
Or another alternative, if its acceptable, is to attach notes to the object. For some reason that works.