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10 years 1 month ago #58186 by julwol
Autoposting Question was created by julwol
Hi everybody,

Sourcecoast is one of the greates companies. You have stable components, great support and lots of passion in your products.
Unfortunatelly, I am doing very hard with all the facebook-stuff, so let me ask a quite simple question before I jump into the auto-posting:

Does the auto-posting allow users to have THEIRE contents posted to THEIRE FB-Timeline?

I see no sense in posting all bullshit into my own timeline. What I like to get is advertisement and marketing. The best to do this is by motivating the users to post in THEIRE TIMELINES. So what I want is to have theire content posted in THEIRE timeline.

This mostly affects the following extensions:

- EasySocial Stream-Items, Event-Participations,...
- Kunena-Postings
- Event Booking
- (Maybe some others in f uture)

However, the components are only extensions, should be easy to integrate once the basic is working correctly.
My main question stays: Does Autopost only work for the admin“s Facebook-Timeline or is it possible that a users autoposts something into his own timeline?

All the best, Julian!
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10 years 4 weeks ago #58195 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Autoposting Question
There's multiple ways that JFBConnect supports posting back to a user's own timeline. The Channels feature is the automated way that Facebook recommends posting to your own timeline (whether it's a profile, Group or Page that you manage), as it can be done without user intervention. It's explicitly against their terms of service to automatically post to a user's Timeline with updates if the user hasn't approved each one.

The recommended ways for allowing users to push content to their own timelines are:
* Like buttons - One click can add a snippet from a page to the user's own feed
* Share buttons - Allow sending content to a user's friends along with a comment about the post.
Those methods all require the user to actively choose to put content on their Timeline, which is why Facebook recommends those use cases. They don't want websites abusing user's Timelines by auto-posting lots of stuff there.

The other feature that JFBConnect supports is Open Graph Actions. These are posts of activity that a user has taken on your site that go into the user's Activity Feed. From there, the post may go into the user's Timeline, the friend 'ticker' or various other places. How it appears also depends on the viewer (to another user of your site, the action would get more visibility, for example).

Open Graph Actions can be configured for things like uploading a new image in EasySocial, voting for a Joomla article or various other integrations we have with some extensions.

I hope that helps explain, but if you need more details on any of the above, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex
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