--- schema_version: "1" id: 01b4f3f014b1aac67e33e46577078b95b275c46b4e877838baf636dd6ff9465a title: ConnectApi.FeedElement collection: legacydeveloper version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/legacydeveloper/current/en-us/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_feed_element.md canonical_url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_feed_element.htm source_site: developer.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: c5965f1cb2df2ab1bd5f432cc4e78164c3158e95497f0afa87861ae6f8687744 description: Feed elements are the top-level items that a feed contains. Feeds are feed element containers. --- # ConnectApi.FeedElement Feed elements are the top-level items that a feed contains. Feeds are feed element containers. This class is abstract. Superclass of: - [ConnectApi.FeedItem](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_Feed_Item.htm "Feed item.") - [ConnectApi.GenericFeedElement](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_generic_feed_element.htm#apex_connectapi_output_generic_feed_element "A concrete implementation of the abstract ConnectApi.FeedElement class.")
Property Name Type Description Available Version
body ConnectApi.​FeedBody Information about the feed element. Important: Use the header.text property as the default value for rendering text because the body.text property can be null. 22.0
capabilities ConnectApi.​FeedElement​Capabilities A container for all capabilities that can be included with a feed element. 31.0
createdDate Datetime ISO 8601 format date string, for example, 2011-02-25T18:24:31.000Z. 31.0
feedElementType ConnectApi.​FeedElementType Feed elements are the top-level objects that a feed contains. The feed element type describes the characteristics of that feed element. One of these values:
  • Bundle—A container of feed elements. A bundle also has a body made up of message segments that can always be gracefully degraded to text-only values.
  • FeedItem—A feed item has a single parent and is scoped to oneExperience Cloud site or across all Experience Cloud sites. A feed item can have capabilities such as bookmarks, canvas, content, comment, link, poll. Feed items have a body made up of message segments that can always be gracefully degraded to text-only values.
  • Recommendation—A recommendation is a feed element with a recommendations capability. A recommendation suggests records to follow, groups to join, or applications that are helpful to the context user.
31.0
header ConnectApi.​MessageBody The header is the title of the post. This property contains renderable plain text for all the segments of the message. If a client doesn’t know how to render a feed element type, it should render this text. 31.0
id String 18-character ID of the feed element. 22.0
modifiedDate Datetime ISO 8601 format date string, for example, 2011-02-25T18:24:31.000Z. 31.0
parent ConnectApi.​ActorWithId Feed element’s parent 28.0
relativeCreated​Date String The created date formatted as a relative, localized string, for example, “17m ago” or “Yesterday.” 31.0
url String Connect REST API URL to this feed element. 22.0
#### See Also - [ConnectApi.Announcement](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_announcement.htm "An announcement displays in a designated location in the Salesforce UI until 11:59 p.m. on its expiration date, unless it’s deleted or replaced by another announcement.") - [ConnectApi.FeedElementPage](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_feed_element_page.htm "A paged collection of ConnectApi.FeedElement objects.") - [ConnectApi.PinnedFeedElements](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_pinned_feed_element_collection.htm "List of pinned feed elements for a feed.") - [ConnectApi.QuestionAndAnswersSuggestions](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexref.meta/apexref/apex_connectapi_output_question_and_answer_suggestion_collection.htm "Question and answers suggestions.")