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Represents a conversation or discussion thread from an external communication platform. Conversations include chat threads, forum discussions, or communication channels from third-party messaging systems.

Available fields and properties

The Teamwork Graph API has the following fields and properties that you can use in your queries:

Object type fields are the core data fields of the object. Use these when you want to retrieve specific information about the object in your queries.
Cypher query properties are metadata properties used for filtering and traversing relationships between different object types in Teamwork Graph. Use Cypher query properties when you need to filter or navigate relationships between this object and other objects in your queries.

Object type fields

Cypher query properties

Object type fields

You can access these fields in the GraphiQL playground using the book icon in the top left, and then searching for External conversation.

Field	Type	Description
`createdAt`	`DateTime`	Timestamp when the conversation was created.
`createdBy`	`User`	User who created this conversation.
`description`	`String`	Description or purpose of the conversation.
`displayName`	`String`	Display name of the conversation as shown in the source system.
`externalId`	`ID`	Identifier of the conversation in the external system.
`id`	`ID!`	Unique identifier for the conversation. This ID is globally unique across the entire Teamwork Graph.
`isArchived`	`Boolean`	Indicates whether the conversation has been archived.
`lastActiveAt`	`DateTime`	Timestamp of the last activity in the conversation.
`lastUpdatedAt`	`DateTime`	Timestamp of the most recent update to the conversation.
`lastUpdatedBy`	`User`	User who last updated this conversation.
`memberCount`	`Int`	Number of members in the conversation.
`membershipType`	`String`	Type of membership (e.g., "PUBLIC", "PRIVATE", "DIRECT").
`provider`	`ExternalProvider`	Identifier of the external provider or integration that supplies this conversation.
`thirdPartyId`	`ID`	Additional identifier used by the third-party system.
`topic`	`String`	Topic or subject of the conversation.
`type`	`String`	Type or classification of the conversation (e.g., "CHANNEL", "DIRECT_MESSAGE", "GROUP").
`url`	`URL`	Direct URL to access or view the conversation in its source system.

Fields for ExternalProvider

Field	Type	Description
`id`	`ID!`	Unique identifier for the external provider.
`logoUrl`	`URL`	URL to the provider's logo image for UI display.
`name`	`String`	Display name of the provider (e.g., "Google Drive", "Dropbox", "GitHub").

Available relationships

The following relationships are currently supported for External conversation:

From relationships

To relationships

Relationships where External conversation is the source object.

Relationship name	From object type	To object type
Content entity links entity	External conversation	Compass component Compass component link Compass scorecard Confluence blog post Confluence comment Confluence database Confluence embed Confluence page Confluence space Confluence whiteboard External customer contact External customer org category External organisation External position External work item External worker External branch External build External calendar event External comment External commit External conversation External customer org External dashboard External data table External deal External deployment External design External document External feature flag External messages External project External pull request External remote link External repository External Service External space External video External vulnerability Atlassian team Atlassian team custom field value Atlassian team type Atlassian user Jira board Jira work item Jira work item comment Jira work item priority Jira work item remote link Jira work item status Jira space Jira sprint Jira version Jira worklog Loom comment Loom meeting Loom meeting recurrence Loom space Loom video Focus change proposal Focus focus area Opsgenie team Atlassian Home comment Atlassian goal Atlassian goal update Atlassian project Atlassian project update Atlassian Home tag
External conversation has external message	External conversation	External messages
External conversation mentions Jira work item	External conversation	Jira work item
External entity is third party entity	External conversation	>> COULD NOT FIND