Topics
In Salesforce Chatter, a feature that uses hashtags (#) to categorize and organize posts by subject, allowing users to follow specific topics and discover related conversations across the org's feed.
Definition
In Salesforce Chatter, a feature that uses hashtags (#) to categorize and organize posts by subject, allowing users to follow specific topics and discover related conversations across the org's feed.
In plain English
“Topics in Salesforce Chatter uses hashtags (#) to categorize and organize posts by subject. Users can follow specific topics and discover related content across the org without being in specific groups.”
Worked example
Eastwell Energy uses Topics to organize its company-wide Chatter feed. Employees tag posts with hashtags like #safety, #q4-results, #remote-work; the Topics system groups all posts carrying each tag into a Topic page. A safety officer follows the #safety Topic and sees every safety-related post across the company in one stream, regardless of which group or record it was originally posted to. Topics turn Chatter from group-organized into subject-organized - the same content, indexed two ways. Without Topics, finding all #safety discussions would mean searching individual groups one by one.
Why Topics matters
In Salesforce Chatter, Topics is a feature that uses hashtags (#) to categorize and organize posts by subject, allowing users to follow specific topics and discover related content across the organization. Topics aggregate posts from any user or group into subject-based feeds.
Topics provide cross-cutting content organization that transcends group boundaries. A topic like #productlaunch might have posts from marketing, sales, and engineering groups, all aggregated in one place. Mature Chatter deployments encourage topic usage for content discoverability alongside group-based collaboration.
How organizations use Topics
Encourages hashtag topics for cross-team content discoverability.
Uses topics alongside groups for multi-dimensional content organization.
Trains users on following topics for relevant content discovery.
Trust & references
Straight from the source - Salesforce's reference material on Topics.
- TopicsSalesforce Help
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Q1. What are Topics?
Q2. How do they differ from groups?
Q3. How do you create a topic?
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