How can I show only posts from a chatter feed filtered to a specific topic

Chris,

I’m not super familiar with the chatter object. Have you tried a filter on the table component?

I assume that you are using the “Topics for objects” functionality that Salesforce rolled out last year. In this case the Topic is assigned to the object record (Specific Accound, Opportunity etc), and all feed items in that record are associated with that topic.

There is a FeedItem object that has all the chatter feed items in your database. You can add a condition to a model built on this object that gets specific Topics. It will be a subquery condition, which is a two step process.

1. Create new condition with the following properties:

• Field: ParentId
• Value Type: Result of subquery
• Value Join Object: TopicAssignment
• Value Join Field: EntityId

2. Now you can add a subquery under the main condition in the list (block with green plus sign icon).

• Field: Topic Id

Here you can assigne a specific Topic, use a URL parameter to send a Topic from another page (maybe a topic list page), or leave the value blank and create a filter on your FeedItem table.

That should work. I’ve created a simple page that does this filtering. The xml for it is below:

<skuidpage showsidebar="true" showheader="true" tabtooverride="Topic" unsavedchangeswarning=""> <models> <model id="Topics" limit="20" query="true" createrowifnonefound="false" sobject="Topic" orderby="Name" type="" doclone=""> <fields> <field id="Name"/> <field id="CreatedDate"/> <field id="CreatedById"/> <field id="CreatedBy.Name"/> <field id="Description"/> <field id="TalkingAbout"/> <field id="Id"/> </fields> <conditions> </conditions> <actions/> </model> <model id="FeedItem" limit="20" query="true" createrowifnonefound="false" sobject="FeedItem"> <fields> <field id="Body"/> <field id="Type"/> <field id="ParentId"/> <field id="Parent.Name"/> <field id="TopicAssignments" type="childRelationship" limit="10"> <fields> <field id="TopicId"/> <field id="Topic.Name"/> </fields> </field> <field id="CreatedDate"/> <field id="Parent.Type"/> <field id="CreatedById"/> <field id="CreatedBy.Name"/> </fields> <conditions> <condition type="fieldvalue" field="Parent.Type" operator="=" inactive="true" enclosevalueinquotes="true" name="__autofilter__Parent.Type" state="filterableoff" value=""/> <condition type="join" value="" field="ParentId" operator="in" mergefield="Id" novaluebehavior="deactivate" enclosevalueinquotes="true" joinobject="TopicAssignment" joinfield="EntityId" state="filterableoff" inactive="true" name="TopicsAll"> <conditions> <condition type="fieldvalue" value="" enclosevalueinquotes="true" field="TopicId" state="filterableoff" inactive="true" name="SpecificTopic"/> </conditions> </condition> <condition type="fieldvalue" field="Type" operator="=" inactive="true" enclosevalueinquotes="true" name="__autofilter__Type" state="filterableoff" value=""/> </conditions> <actions/> </model> </models> <components> <skootable showconditions="true" showsavecancel="false" searchmethod="server" searchbox="true" showexportbuttons="false" pagesize="10" createrecords="false" model="FeedItem" buttonposition="" mode="readonly"> <fields> <field id="CreatedDate" valuehalign="" type="" allowordering="true"/> <field id="CreatedById" valuehalign="" type=""/> <field id="Body"/> <field id="Type"/> <field id="ParentId"/> <field id="Parent.Type"/> </fields> <rowactions/> <massactions usefirstitemasdefault="true"/> <views> <view type="standard"/> </views> <filters> <filter type="select" filteroffoptionlabel="All Topics" createfilteroffoption="true" affectcookies="true" autocompthreshold="25" conditionsource="manual" labelmode="no" condition="SpecificTopic"> <sources> <source type="model" effectsbehavior="defaultandothers" model="Topics"> <labeltemplate>{{Name}}</labeltemplate> <valuetemplate>{{Id}}</valuetemplate> <effects> <effect action="activate" value="{{Id}}" condition="TopicsAll"/> </effects> </source> </sources> </filter> <filter type="select" filteroffoptionlabel="All Entity Types" createfilteroffoption="true" affectcookies="true" autocompthreshold="25" conditionsource="auto" labelmode="auto" conditionfield="Parent.Type"/> <filter type="select" filteroffoptionlabel="Feed Item Types" createfilteroffoption="true" affectcookies="true" autocompthreshold="25" conditionsource="auto" labelmode="auto" conditionfield="Type"/> </filters> </skootable> </components> <resources> <labels/> <css/> <javascript> </javascript> </resources> </skuidpage>