PT Social Media Getting Started

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App Configuration

Make sure your App Configuration has been saved and the ADF reset.

1. If you haven't already done so, go to your Social Media App Configuration Management page and click the button to add the app configuration data.

Service Management

Setup the available Social Media Service Pages, Accounts and Keywords:

1. Add Social Media Service info for each of the Social Media services
   1. Go to your Web Admin manangement pages: http://{sitename}/webadmin/socialmedia/Manage-Social-Media.cfm
   2. Under each of the Social Media Tabs that is applicable to your organization click the 'Add' button and fill out the social media data form.
      1. Facebook Pages
         1. Give the new record a friendly name
         2. Add a Facebook Page Link (the URL of your organization Facebook page)
         3. Check the 'Feed Active' checkbox to enable the feed.
         4. Click Submit
      2. (Repeat for each desired Facebook page... Remember posts from these pages will not be visible until they are selected during the next step.)

Social Media Feed Selection

Select Social Media Pages, Accounts and/or Keywords to build your feed

1. Go to the Social Media Feed Page you create in this step
2. Go into Author (or Work) mode on this page
3. Click on the element indicator for the Social Media Selector element
4. If this is the first time adding data click 'New Data' after that use the 'Data' icon to edit the selector element.
5. From the lightbox window select the display properties
   1. Render Limit
   2. Display source links
   3. Twitter Tweet button options
   4. Facebook Like button options
   5. Lightbox option for YouTube video player (only applicable if a YouTube Channel is seleted)
   6. YouTube Video Player size (only applicable if a YouTube Channel is seleted and the above YouTube Lightbox option is set to 'YES')
6. Facebook tab
   1. Select one or more of the configured Facebook page by dragging any of the available options to the right column
7. Twitter tab
   1. Select one or more of the configured Twitter accounts or keyword by dragging any of the available options to the right column
8. YouTube tab
   1. Select one or more of the configured YouTube Channels by dragging any of the available options to the right column
9. WordPress tab
   1. Select one or more of the configured WordPress Blogs by dragging any of the available options to the right column
10. Click 'Save'

Remember: You can select any combination of the available feeds to display on your feed page.