Channels Config: Autopost Plugins & Objects

For 1 & 2, it sounds like you have a good grasp on how it should all work. I understand your confusion with the JReviews plugin and that's on our end. Not all Open Graph plugins have the ability to autopost. There are some object types (like a user profile in JomSocial for example) that just shouldn't be auto-posted normally. Currently, our JReviews plugin does not support autoposting either.

With that said, JReviews is built on top of Joomla's content system. Our Open Graph - Content plugin should be able to do what you're looking for here, and we know many users who are using the content plugin to do so. I'd recommend setting up objects using the Open Graph - Content plugin to point to categories that your JReviews listings go in. Then, you can setup autoposting to use those content categories.

As mentioned, that method has worked for other users. However, if you run into issues or limitations doing it that way, please let us know what they are and we can investigate adding autoposting to the JReviews plugin. It's do-able, just something we haven't spent time on because it hasn't been necessary.

3) The choice of Autopost Plugin or Autopost Object is meant to make setting things up easier. If, by chance, you want all new articles on your site within Joomla content to be autoposted, you can use the "Autopost Plugin" option. That will post everything created, whether you specifically created an object type for the article or not. Autopost Object is more targetted so that you can setup an object type for category 'a'. Then, when new content is created in that category (or it's subcategories), that content would be autoposted. Content in an unrelated category 'z' would not be autoposted.

4) The access level setting lets you choose the content-level access setting that should be posted. For example, if you create a new article with an Access Level of 'Registered', then the Autopost feature will only post that content if it's access level setting is also Registered. Most users use the 'Guest' setting for their content, meaning that anyone visiting the site can read the article. In Autoposting, they also use Guest so that new content is automatically posted. With those settings, In the event you want to create an article that's only available to users that login, you would set the article's access level to 'Registered' or 'Subscription' and it would not be automatically posted.

I hope that helps explain, but if you need anything else, please let me know!

Thanks,
Alex

Jumping in here to suggest that instead of creating an Open Graph object of type "Joomla Content - Category", you should try one of "Joomla Content - Article". Then in that article type object, select the category to be Software and other settings like you've done above. Looking through the code is looks like JFBConnect supports autoposting for articles, not categories.

I think it should be as simple as switching to the other object type to get the object to show up in the channel area, but let us know if that doesn't help.

-Melissa