# Insert a Social Post

NOTE: Inserting a post in a social feed is supported only with Microsoft SharePoint 2013.

To insert a post in a social feed, the `insertXml` must include the following properties:

`TYPE` | The type of item to insert. To insert a post, specify `SOCIALPOST`.

The following properties specify where to insert the post:

`SOCIALTHREADID` | The ID of the thread to add the post to. If you set `SOCIALTHREADID` and not `SITEFEEDURL`, the post is added as a reply to the specified thread.
`SITEFEEDURL` | The URL of the feed to add the post to. If you set `SITEFEEDURL` and not `SOCIALTHREADID`, the post is created in a new thread in the specified site feed.

If you set neither `SOCIALTHREADID` or `SITEFEEDURL`, the post is created in a new thread in the authenticated user's feed (the user specified in the connector's configuration file).

The following metadata is required:

`TEXT` | The content to include in the new post.

The following metadata is optional:

`LINK` | The text (that you added to the `TEXT` field) to make into a link, followed by a comma, followed by the link URL. You can include any number of `LINK` metadata elements.
`ATTACHMENTURI` | The location (URI) of an attachment to include in the new post.

For example, the value of your `insertXML` action parameter might look like this:

    <insertXML>
      <insert>
        <reference>[REF]</reference>
        <property name="TYPE" value="SOCIALPOST" />
        <property name="SITEFEEDURL" value="http://SiteCollection.com/Site/newsfeed.aspx"/>
        <metadata name="TEXT" value="SomeContent"/>
        <metadata name="LINK" value="[TEXT],[URL]"/>
        <metadata name="ATTACHMENTURI" value="[URI]"/>
      </insert>
    </insertXML>

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