Topic-icon JFBConnect - Channels

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5 years 7 months ago #64517 by echomedia
Hi,

Just to explain briefly, I seem to have purchased this plugin without full investigation.

What I am looking to do is auto-publish any new/modified content on my website to social media. My understanding was that Channels could achieve this?

I can see the channels are limited to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (no Google + etc.) but this should still be fine if I can get them working. I have setup a Twitter application and am awaiting verification email. The twitter account is using the same email address as an Admin Joomla user so I am assuming thats how the application is associated with a Joomla user?

I also am trying to setup auto posting to a Facebook Page but this page is administered through a personal FB account. I have created the application and can connect but the personal account does not have a Joomla user with the same email address. Even if I can connect this how do I control posting to a specific page administered through a personal account?

And is the content for that specific Joomla user the only content that can be published via the channels?

I hope this is not too confusing. I can see how extensive the plugin is whereas my use-case is fairly specific and simple.

Possibly I have purchased the wrong plugin but if it can do the above it would be fine and I would prefer not to have to begin again

Regards,
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5 years 7 months ago #64519 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic JFBConnect - Channels
JFBConnect can automatically post new articles to Facebook Pages or Groups, Twitter Streams or LinkedIn Company Pages. It's one of our core functionalities.

The general requirements for posting are:
* Create the social network application. That allows users to authenticate on your site and for your site to perform actions on those user's behalf, like posting to a Facebook Page
* Authenticate with a social network user on your Joomla site - This creates the Joomla account for the user, or will link to an existing Joomla account
* Once there is a link between a social network user and a Joomla user on your site, you can setup a 'Channel' for that user.
* The Channel is what JFBConnect uses to post to a Facebook Page (for example) on behalf of a specific user.
* While setting up the Channel, you may need to re-authenticate on the front-end of your site with the social network to grant additional permissions for the user. These permissions are used by the social network application to post on the user's behalf to the Page they own.

You mentioned a few times:

I also am trying to setup auto posting to a Facebook Page but this page is administered through a personal FB account.

All Facebook Pages are administered by personal Facebook accounts. It's not possible to login directly to a Facebook Page. You always login to your personal account who is the administrator of a Facebook Page.
To work with JFBConnect, that same Facebook user has to login to your Joomla site. Then, you'll be able to list the Pages that the user is an administrator of in the Channels area.

If you haven't already, I'd recommend looking over our Creating a Social Channel documentation.

I hope that helps answer your questions.

Alex
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