use your share feature within another component?

Also. I would love to know one more thing...
About the description open graph. Is there some way to create a line break so the description looks better? I have tried the normal <br> and \n plus many spaces but nothing works. Description would look so much better with a line break in it imo

thanks
Beatsuka

It likely just means that Google hasn't scraped the page for the social tags yet. There isn't a specific way to set the title for Google other than the meta title or the Open Graph title on the page.

Ok I will have a look at giving this few days for google to scrabe the opn graph title.

Correct. You would want to scan the destination page to check its tags. For the share button itself, can you post (or PM) the link to the page you're adding those tags on? Right now, I'm looking at
auglysingar/overview/vehicles/cont-vehicle/cond--/vehicle-lamborghini-demo-auglýsing-57/dealer--
I'm assuming you're adding those tags to a separate page that links to this page though, correct?

Correct. the page is a user unique page that contains all of the users cars/adverts in a list. in that list i'm adding the buttons that share the destination page. (link to the main advert for others to see)

But I think it is not nessacery to have the share buttons at that position aswell. users can just open the advert they wish to share and do it from there .. Looks like the other way might be to much of a trouble to get working properly.


However I am curious to know about the opengraph tag for image.
I have tried pultiple links that are used in the php scrypt for the vehicle details page that link images to certain places such as the main image of the advert, images in slideshows etc. all of them are stored in a resolution much higher then 200x200
But for some reason when I press share for the first time on a advert it only display's a image that is NOT 200x200 and is NOT part of the image path i am using.
but when I go with the link to that advert to the debugger it display's the correct image and after that it works great on the adverts webpage..

I am confused to why it is not working on the inital share attempt. I can not go about using the debug tool on every advert that is created on my website :/

The opengraph I'm using is:
{SCOpenGraph og:image=http://bilasidan.is/js_autoz_data/data/vehicle/vehicle_vehicle->id; ?>/images/thumbs/filename; ?>}

This is a modified path to the following path that is the one that is used to display the main image of the advert.
<?php echo $this->config; ?>/data/vehicle/vehicle_<?php echo $this->vehicle->id; ?>/images/thumbs/<?php echo 'jsautoz_l_' . $vehicleimage->filename; ?>

I had to change it since facebook would not recognise the url from the original code since it would not add the website name to the beginning. (bilasidan.is)

Error I would get using the original code was:

Object at URL 'bilasidan.is/auglysingar/overview/vehicl...eot-2008-77/dealer--' of type 'article' is invalid because the given value 'js_autoz_data/data/vehicle/vehicle_77/images/thumbs/jsautoz_l_139car-1.jpg.jpg' for property 'og:image:url' could not be parsed as type 'url'.

I have tried many different routes that all should lead to different sizes of the image that should be used.
But like I say. it always picks some banner, or even a 20x30px button and boosts it size instead of using the image that is 500x500px or some other size.. :/

any pointers on the image problem mate?

Best regards
Beatsuka

ok so let me se if I get this correct.
Even though I have set up the opengraph image to specific. whenever someone try's to share the post for the first hours (up to couple of days), the opengraph image tag will not have any effect since the site has not been crawld yet?

so automatically after couple of day's the share should work as intended even though the first shares were with wrong image?

I would have thought it would be possible for facebook to crawl the site on the first time item is shared.. :/

The main thing that bugs me about this is why in earth facebook would then pick a random image that is completely out of portion, for example a 20x30px button or something similar instead of using for example the biggest image.. but that's ofc a whole new chapter that has nothing to do with you. just anoying

ahh I had no idea why these buttons were there and didn't even think about testing hah.. thanks. now I know

Brilliant info and support as per usual. I thank you for that.

We call this case closed now then.
Best regards
Beatsuka