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General Chatter Allocations

General Chatter Allocations

Limits and allocations for Chatter features by edition and browser.

Chatter Allocations by Feature

These allocations are subject to change. Contact Salesforce for more information.

  Feature Allocation
Groups  
  Groups a user can join 3001
  Groups in your org 30,0001
  Members in a group Unlimited
  Characters in the Information field in a group 4,000
  Max size of email when posting to a group by email (including text and attachments) 25 MB
  Attachments you can include in a post to a group by email 25
Feeds  
  Mentions in a single post or comment 25
  Characters in a mention search string 500 for a person’s first and last name (combined), or for a group name
  Characters in single post or comment 10,000. In rich-content posts, tags are included in this count, even though they’re aren’t shown.
  Characters in a question 255, and the count is shown; answers can have 10,000 characters, and rich-content tags are included in the answer character count.
  Email notifications sent after you like or comment on a post 10
  Bookmarks Unlimited
  Favorites 50
  People, topics, and records you can follow 5002
  Maximum posts you can see in your feed at any given time The 500 most recent posts. This limit doesn’t apply to profile, group, and record feeds.
Files  
  File attachment size 2 GB
  Times a file can be shared 2000
People and Profiles  
  Profile photo size 8 MB
  People you can add to a chat 10
  People you can add to Chat My Favorites 100
  Characters in a Chatter message 10,000
Skills  
  Skills assigned to a user 100
  Characters in a skill name 99
Topics  
  Topics on a single post 10
  Topics on a single record 100
  Characters in a topic name 99
  Topics on articles 200

1You can join up to 300 groups and your org can have up to 30,000 groups. Archived groups count toward your org’s group limits (30,000) but not toward a user’s group membership limits (300).

2You can follow a maximum combined total of 500 people, topics, and records. To see how many items you’re following, view the Following list on your profile.

Posts and comments that users make in Chatter are retained during the entire time that a customer's applicable org remains provisioned. We reserve the right to enforce limits on:

  • The number of system-generated tracked feed updates. Currently tracked feed updates that are older than 45 days and have no likes or comments are deleted automatically. The tracked feed updates no longer appear in the feed. However, if auditing is enabled for a tracked field, the audit history for that field is still available.
  • The number of email notifications that can be sent per org per hour.

Chatter Browser Limits

Some third-party browser plug-ins and extensions can interfere with the functionality of Chatter. If you experience malfunctions or inconsistent behavior with Chatter, disable the browser's plug-ins and extensions and try again.

In the Spring ’20 edition of Lightning Experience on iPad Safari, check your text editors for rich text editor support. For example, check for support in a feeds publisher. If you don’t have rich text editor support—you can’t add an emoji or a hyperlink—you’re using an older, unsupported editor. Talk with Salesforce Support about bringing in the Quill editor to replace it.

Chatter Mentions Limits

You can’t mention archived groups, unlisted groups, customer groups, and private groups that you’re not a member of. If a person who isn’t a member of a private group is mentioned in a post or comment on that private group, the mention link displays as gray and links to the member’s profile page. An exception is when the person mentioned has Modify All Data permission. In this case, the link displays in blue and links to the member’s profile page. However, Salesforce security and sharing rules still apply. People who aren’t a member of a private group don’t have access to the private group and don’t see or get notified about any updates.

 
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