Defining social network settings for LinkedIn | HCL Digital Experience
Complete these configuration parameters to set up a social network connection for LinkedIn.
Before you begin
- Go to https://developer.linkedin.com
- Sign in and click the twistie next to your login name and select API Keys.
- Click Add New Application.
- Under Company Info either select an existing company or select New Company and enter a company name.
- Under Application Info enter values for
the following parameters:
- Application Name:
- This is the name of your application that is displayed at the end of each post. For example, your company name.
- Application Description:
- Enter a short description of the application.
- Website URL:
- This is the URL to your website. For example: http://www.ibm.com
- Application Use:
- Social Aggregation
- Live Status:
- During testing, you can set the application to Development. Once ready, modify the status to Live.
- Contact Info:
- Add your contact information here.
- Under Author User Agreement select the display language of the user agreement screen. Browser Locale Setting is recommended.
- Click Add Application.
- A success screen is displayed showing your API Key and Secret Key. Record these values and then click Done.
You then must create a new credential vault from the HCL Portal administration
view where:
- The API Key is specified as the shared user ID
- The Secret Key is specified as the shared password.
About this task
Procedure
- Select LinkedIn as the social network.
- Define authentication settings for the social network:
- Select the Credential Vault that contains your LinkedIn application credentials.
- Click Authorize to bind the credentials to a specific social network account.
- Select a message type:Note: It is not recommended to reference rich text elements or HTML elements in any fields that do not support HTML.
- Network Update:
- Enter a default message template. Predefined tags for the message
are included as a guide. For example:
- Message:
- This is posted as HTML.
[Element context="current" type="content" key="Message" format="length:200"] See more: [URLCmpnt context="current" type="content" mode="standalone" start="<a href='" end="'>Link</a>"]
- Enter a default message template. Predefined tags for the message
are included as a guide. For example:
- Share:
- Select the appropriate visibility option.
- Enter a default name, description, image, and message template.
Predefined tags for the image, description, and message are included
as a guide. For example:
- Name:
- This is posted as text.
[Property field="title" context="current" type="content" format="length:100"]
- Description:
- This is posted as text.
[Property field="description" context="current" type="content" format="length:100"]
- Image:
- This is posted as a URL.
[Element context="current" type="content" key="Image" format="URL"]
Note: The URL to the image must be internet accessible. - Message:
- This is posted as text.
[Element context="current" type="content" key="Message" format="length:200"]