LinkedIn Application Setup

This guide will show you how to set up your LinkedIn authentication and obtain your LinkedIn API and Secret Key for Joomla.

1. Log into the LinkedIn Developer Center at: http://developer.linkedin.com/.
2. Click the "Create app" button as shown below:
   
3. Fill in the following required fields for the Application Info:
   
   
   1. App name - Enter your application name, usually your site's name.
   2. LinkedIn Page - The Company Page to associate with your app. This cannot be undone once the app is saved. If you have not created a company on LinkedIn, you'll need to do that first (these steps are not described in this document).
   3. Privacy Policy URL - A link to the privacy policy on your website.
   4. App Logo - A logo image for your application. This must be at least 80 x 80 pixels.
   5. Legal agreement - Check this box to agree to LinkedIn's terms and conditions.
   6. Create App button - When done filling in the fields, hit Create App.
4. The company associated with the LinkedIn page will need to verify the app.
5. After the application is created, in the Settings tab in the Additional Settings section, enter domains for the Widgets > Domains and click Update.

   https://www.yourdomain.com
   https://yourdomain.com

6. In the Auth section:
   1. OAuth 2.0 Settings - Redirect URLs - add all variations of your domain along with index.php, as shown below. Replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name. If you have https enabled on your site, or other ways to access your domain (like www and non-www), add them all here, like:

      https://yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin
      https://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin
      http://yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin
      http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin

      If you have multiple ways to access your site (http and https, www and non-www), you need to add all of the possibilities in this box.
      Please note: You will need to enter these values one per text box. Enter the first value, then press the Add redirect URL button. A new textbox will appear. Continue to enter one per box until they are all added.
      
   2. Update button - Click update before proceeding.
7. In the Products section:
   
   1. Marketing Developer Program - If you would like to use JFBConnect's channels feature to post to your Company's LinkedIn feed or pull in feed posts to your Joomla site, you will need to be a member of the Marketing Developer Platform. SourceCoast/JFBConnect has no control over whether you're admitted to the program.
   2. Share on LinkedIn - Select this option. When the modal pops up, agree to the terms and add the product. This scope needs to be approved by LinkedIn.
   3. Sign in with LinkedIn - Select this option. When the modal pops up, agree to the terms and add the product. This scope needs to be approved by LinkedIn.
8. After the scopes have been approved from Step 7, the OAuth2 Scopes in the Auth section should have the following at the minimum:
9. In the Application's Auth tab, you should see an "Application Credentials" section which lists your Client ID and Client Secret. These will be used in the JFBConnect backend > Configuration > LinkedIn area to allow for authentication.

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