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Add Topics to Chatter Posts
Add topics to Chatter posts and comments to make it possible to search for all the items that touch on that topic. You can add topics to any posts at any time directly in the feed.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Group, Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Contact Manager, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To add existing topics to posts and comments: | Assign Topics |
| To add new topics to posts and comments: | Create Topics |
These steps outline how to add topics in Salesforce Classic. In Lightning Experience, when you post or comment, add a topic by putting a hashtag (#) in front of your topic terms, for example, #sales quotas.
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In the top corner of the post, click
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- Click Add Topics or Edit Topics.
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In the topic editor, start typing your text. As you type, you
can pick a topic from the list of suggestions, or keep typing to create your own unique topic.
To add more than one topic, type a comma after each topic.
Commas ( , ) and closing square brackets ( ] ) automatically end a topic. Other punctuation, symbols, and separators are supported in topic names. Topics are case and space insensitive.
Posts can have up to 10 topics.
- When you’re done adding topics, click Done or press ENTER.
A topic becomes a link to its detail page. On the topic detail page, you can see all the posts that you have access to that use the topic.
When you add topics to posts that contain files, the topics are also added to those files.
