Chatter Notifications via API

[FCBill]

I have a .NET ecommerce app that I've integrated with SF.com via the SOAP API.  Everything works great except for one thing.

You know how if you're Chattering you can type @Name and that person will receive an email notification?  I can't figure out how to do that via the SOAP API.  I tried including @Name and @[Name] in the FeedItem Body but that didn't work.  I even built an HTML anchor with the user's ID (I saw this in the HTML source of a Chatter page) but all that did was display the anchor as text in the Chatter item.

Can anyone give me any guidance on how to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Bill...

[alouie]

Hi Bill,

It's not possible to make a Chatter post with an @mention using the SOAP API. Instead, you need to use the Chatter REST API.

How do I post a comment or a feed item with an @mention?

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/chatterapi/Content/connect_resources_how_to.htm#cc_post_...

News feed resource (POST to /chatter/feeds/news/me/feed-items)

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/chatterapi/Content/connect_resource_feeds_news.htm

Sorry for the slow reply, hope that helps!