Apex Developer Guide
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Send a Direct Message
Call a method to send a direct message.
Call postFeedElement(communityId,
feedElement) to send a direct message to two people.
1// Define the FeedItemInput object to pass to postFeedElement
2ConnectApi.FeedItemInput feedItemInput = new ConnectApi.FeedItemInput();
3
4ConnectApi.TextSegmentInput textSegmentInput = new ConnectApi.TextSegmentInput();
5textSegmentInput.text = 'Thanks for attending my presentation test run this morning. Send me any feedback.';
6
7// The MessageBodyInput object holds the text in the post
8ConnectApi.MessageBodyInput messageBodyInput = new ConnectApi.MessageBodyInput();
9messageBodyInput.messageSegments = new List<ConnectApi.MessageSegmentInput>();
10messageBodyInput.messageSegments.add(textSegmentInput);
11feedItemInput.body = messageBodyInput;
12
13// The FeedElementCapabilitiesInput object holds the capabilities of the feed item.
14// For this feed item, we define a direct message capability to hold the member(s) and the subject.
15
16List<String> memberIds = new List<String>();
17memberIds.add('005B00000016OUQ');
18memberIds.add('005B0000001rIN6');
19
20ConnectApi.DirectMessageCapabilityInput dmInput = new ConnectApi.DirectMessageCapabilityInput();
21dmInput.subject = 'Thank you!';
22dmInput.membersToAdd = memberIds;
23
24ConnectApi.FeedElementCapabilitiesInput feedElementCapabilitiesInput = new ConnectApi.FeedElementCapabilitiesInput();
25feedElementCapabilitiesInput.directMessage = dmInput;
26
27feedItemInput.capabilities = feedElementCapabilitiesInput;
28
29// Post the feed item.
30ConnectApi.FeedElement feedElement = ConnectApi.ChatterFeeds.postFeedElement(Network.getNetworkId(), feedItemInput);