Sharing a Chatter post takes a few seconds from the feed. The exact wording differs slightly between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic, and Lightning shares only the post while Classic carries files and attachments too. These steps cover the common path of sharing a post to a wider audience.
- Find the post
Locate the post you want to resurface in any Chatter feed you can see. The post must be a user-authored post, not a feed-tracked item or a custom item like an approval, dashboard snapshot, or case interaction.
- Click Share
On the post, click the Share action. In Lightning Experience it sits with the post's other actions, and the menu lets you choose Share with a group or My Followers.
- Choose a destination
Pick where the post should go. For a group, you must be a member and the group must be public, not private with external users, archived, or unlisted. For your profile, choose My Followers.
- Add context and share
Optionally type a short note explaining why the post matters to this audience, then confirm. The shared post appears in the chosen feed and links back to the original, where the comments stay.
Sends the post into a public Chatter group you belong to. Best for putting a post in front of a whole team or topic-based audience.
Shares the post to your profile so the people who follow you see it. Best for individual amplification without a specific group.
Generates an internal link you can paste into email or instant message. The recipient must be a Chatter user in your org to open it.
- In Lightning Experience the share carries only the post. Attachments, comments, and likes are not included, so readers click through to the original for those.
- You cannot share posts from private groups, private groups with external users, or archived and unlisted groups, because sharing must not widen visibility past the original access.
- Classic emails the original poster when their post is shared; Lightning Experience does not send that notification, so authors may not know their content spread.
- Editing the original of a shared post in Lightning Experience updates the shared version automatically, since both point at the same underlying post.