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Configuring event sharing through social media
February 09, 2014, 09:33:01 am
Does anyone know where to configure the behavior of the sharing links (tweet, +1, and like buttons) for events? When people +1 one of our events, it posts an outdated logo to Google+ that I need to change, but I haven't been able to figure out how this is set up. The person who originally configured this is gone.

These links are showing up in our events (I think) because the "Allow sharing through social media" checkbox is on in the event configuration, so I assume this is a feature relating to CiviEvent. Although this might be something that is configured globally for CiviCRM or in Drupal, I'm not sure.


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Re: Configuring event sharing through social media
February 11, 2014, 12:19:41 pm
The code for that "social" section is located in this file within civicrm.

civicrm/templates/CRM/common/SocialNetwork.tpl

Create a 'custom' directory for your modifications to avoid your changes being overwritten.

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Re: Configuring event sharing through social media
February 11, 2014, 01:49:17 pm
Hm… Forgive me if I'm being dense; I'm not sure this is quite what I'm looking for. I don't need to customize the sharing buttons, I need to customize the posts generated on the social networks by clicking those buttons.

Someone who had visited our site to register for an event we hosted decided to share that event on Google+. The post created on Google+ contained an old logo of ours. I don't know if the content of that post was configured specifically for the sharing, or if the social network code is using images and text gleaned from some other part of the Drupal site. It doesn't look to me like this configuration was done by making any modifications to SocialNetwork.tpl, and I don't see any custom copies of the file either.

I apologize for being thick. I've inherited this set up from someone and am trying to figure out Drupal and CiviCRM as quickly as I can.

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Re: Configuring event sharing through social media
February 13, 2014, 02:47:28 am
The social media code in CiviCRM posts only the Event URL as content to Google+. CiviCRM does not post any logo or images.

i suspect your Google+ account may have the old logo?

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