Facebook autopost - using link and picture parameters

Jan Mudrák asked on March 9, 2015 15:19

Hi, is there a way to user Facebook autopost parameters such as "link" and "picture"? As far as I know, Kentico uses only "message" parameter and it is quite difficult to post nice comments this way.

Thanks in advance.

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Jan Mudrák answered on March 16, 2015 20:30

I can now only confirm what I wrote earlier. It is possible, but you have to customize Facebook C# SDK library to send other parameters as well.

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Brenden Kehren answered on March 9, 2015 16:01

Check out Joel Dahlin's post on this topic!

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Jan Mudrák answered on March 9, 2015 16:27

Thank you, Brenden. Unfortunately, the topic covers other feature.

I have page that already has all these meta tags. I cannot get Kentico to publish other parameters than "message". And since there is no "link" parameter is specified, all meta tags on the target page are ignored...

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Jan Mudrák answered on March 9, 2015 17:12 (last edited on March 9, 2015 17:14)

Well, now I am pretty sure it can't be done without customization. Kentico uses Facebook C# SDK from the The Outercurve Foundation. In the source code of SDK (FacebookClient) is used only "message" parameter...

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Brenden Kehren answered on March 9, 2015 19:03

Not sure I'm understanding your whole issue. It appears the link I posted will allow you to publish those links and other metadata to your page template and then allows facebook to come to the site and capture them when you are posting. The autopost feature simply sends the post to facebook and facebook will capture the rest of the data based on whats on the page markup. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how it all works or what you're looking for.

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Jan Mudrák answered on March 9, 2015 19:19

I think you get it quite right with one exception: The autopost feature sends some text (in "message" parameter of facebook API) to facebook. Usually text contains link to the post (via {%AbsoluteUrl%} macro). But facebook will only convert this URL to hyperlink in body of a post and will not process it.

You have to send URL in "link" parameter of facebook API in order to make facebook process it. And this parameter isn't accessible in Kentico, since underlying SDK doesn't support it.

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Eka Milyanda answered on August 25, 2016 14:39

Hi Support team,

Our team is facing the same problem with Jan. I have asked facebook team bout this issue and they thought this came from Kentico. Please visit this (https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1788117871431404)to see the details. Would you provide URL in "link" parameter of facebook API like Jan said before?

Thanks in advance

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