Chatter publisher and feed features
Key Takeaway
Admins shape the Chatter publisher and feed through publisher actions, Chatter Settings, and feed tracking.
The Chatter publisher is the box where users add content to Chatter. A Chatter feed shows the publisher together with everything added through it, plus system-generated updates about changes to records.
Where the publisher appears and which actions it shows
The publisher appears in these places:
- The Home tab
- The Chatter tab
- User profile pages
- Group detail pages
- Record detail pages
By default, the publisher shows the Post, Poll, and Question actions. An admin can change the order of the actions and add more actions in Setup, so the actions a user sees depend on how the admin configured the publisher.
The Chatter publisher in Lightning Experience has more features than the one in Salesforce Classic. The "Actions in the Publisher" setting is a legacy setting with no application in Lightning Experience, so changing it does nothing to the publisher there.