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BT SOCIAL CONNECT JOOMLA EXTENSION User guide Version 1.0.0 Copyright © 2014 Bowthemes Inc. | [email protected]
BT SOCIAL CONNECT JOOMLA EXTENSION
User guide Version 1.0.0
Copyright © 2014 Bowthemes Inc. | [email protected]
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Table of contents I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 3
1.1. Related Link: Details - View Demo .....................................................................................................3
1.2. Product Features ........................................................................................................................................3
II. INSTALLING, UPGRADING AND UNINSTALLING ............................................................... 4
2.1. System Requirement .................................................................................................................................4
2.2. Downloading .................................................................................................................................................4
2.3. Extension package installation ............................................................................................................4
2.4. Manual Installation ....................................................................................................................................6
2.5. Module Upgrading ......................................................................................................................................8
2.6. Uninstalling ...................................................................................................................................................8
III. FUNDAMENTALS ....................................................................................................................... 9
3.1. Understanding Admin Panel ......................................................................................... 9
3.2. Setting up social login ................................................................................................... 11
3.2.1. Workflow ............................................................................................................................................ 11
a. Goal ............................................................................................................................................................ 11
b. Steps ........................................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.2. Joomla component ......................................................................................................................... 11
a. Social login configuration ................................................................................................................ 11
b. User configuration ............................................................................................................................... 21
c. Users Fields ............................................................................................................................................. 22
d. Users Manager ...................................................................................................................................... 29
3.2.3. Joomla module ................................................................................................................................. 33
a. Module “mod_ btsocialconnect” ..................................................................................................... 33
b. Demo “mod_ btsocialconnect” ........................................................................................................ 37
3.2.4. Joomla plugins ................................................................................................................................. 37
a. Plugin “bt_socialregister “ ................................................................................................................ 37
b. Social register demo ........................................................................................................................... 38
3.3. Social Auto Submit..................................................................................................................... 38
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3.3.1. Workflow ............................................................................................................................................ 38
a. Goal ............................................................................................................................................................ 38
b. Steps ........................................................................................................................................................... 38
3.3.2. Joomla component ......................................................................................................................... 39
a. Publishing settings .............................................................................................................................. 39
b. Image Setting ......................................................................................................................................... 40
c. Channels ................................................................................................................................................... 41
3.3.3. Joomla plugin .................................................................................................................................... 44
a. Plugin“Bt_socialpublish” and “Bt_k2socialpublish“ .............................................................. 44
b. Facebook shared post demo .............................................................................................................. 46
3.4. Social widgets.............................................................................................................................. 46
3.4.1. Workflow ............................................................................................................................................ 46
a. Goal ............................................................................................................................................................ 46
b. Steps ........................................................................................................................................................... 46
3.4.2. Joomla component ......................................................................................................................... 47
Social widgets ................................................................................................................................................. 47
3.4.3. Joomla module ................................................................................................................................. 50
a. Module “Mod_bt_socialwidget” ...................................................................................................... 50
b. Demo “Mod_bt_socialwidget”.......................................................................................................... 50
3.4.4. Joomla plugins ................................................................................................................................. 51
a. Plugin “Plugin-button-addwidget” ............................................................................................... 51
b. Widget button demo ........................................................................................................................... 51
3.5. Statistics and Message Logs .................................................................................................. 52
3.5.1. Message ............................................................................................................................................... 52
3.5.2. Statistics .............................................................................................................................................. 55
IV. ADVANCED SETTINGS ........................................................................................................... 56
V. COMMON ERROR USING PRODUCT.................................................................................... 57
5.1. Post article error ...................................................................................................................................... 57
5.2. Facebook error ......................................................................................................................................... 57
VI. CONTACTING BOWTHEMES ................................................................................................. 58
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I. Introduction
BT Social Connect is a multi-task social networking tool for Joomla. This component
helps turn your site into a social hub. Main features are social auto submission
(including Facebook and Twitter), social log in and registration, add-on social
widget, and article statistics and message logs management. Effortless social
marketing gives effective outcome with BT Social Connect.
1.1. Related Link: Details - View Demo
1.2. Product Features
Smart Auto-post
Share multiple Joomla articles automatically to one or more social networks
(Facebook, Twitter) by effortless steps at once.
Convenient social login and registration
Integration with popular social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkeIn) to
quickly register account with customizable database fields.
Support for registration and login display module.
Flexible social widgets
Perfectly insert social widgets to articles (Joomla, K2) or display them as modules at
wanted positions with being demo preview function enabled.
Available social widgets are following: Facebook comments, Facebook Activity Feeds,
Twitter Feeds…
Powerful management
Manage article statistics and message logs (submitted/pending/error articles,
statistics of used elements of widgets, user connections and channels) through the
friendly CPanel.
Cross-browser support
Compatible with Joomla1.7, Joomla 2.5 and almost all web browsers: Firefox, IE7+,
Opera 9.5, Safari, Netscape, Google Chrome, Camino, Flock 0.7+
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II. Installing, Upgrading and Uninstalling
2.1. System Requirement
Server requirements
PHP 5.0 or above with GD library is enabled. Please follow this
link to check it
MySQL 5.0 or above
Joomla 1.7.x or above;
Client requirements Firefox 2.x, 3.0.x, 3.5.x, Internet Explorer 6 or above.
2.2. Downloading
BT Social Connect is a free extension for Bowthemes members. To download the
product, you must be one of our memberships. Register here.
If you are a Bowthemes member already, please download BT Social Connect here.
There are 7 days to decide to use the product or not since the product is downloaded.
Within these days, if the product can’t make you satisfied, your money will be refunded.
Click here to send us refund request email.
2.3. Extension package installation
STT Extension name Extension type Description
1 bt_socialconnect plugin Connect to social networks
2 bt_socialregister plugin
Share information of
registration to your social
networks
3 button_bt_socialconnect plugin Add social widget into
articles
4 bt_socialpublish plugin
Share articles from Content
Component to social
networks
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5 bt_k2socialpublish plugin
Share articles from K2
Component to social
networks
6 mod_btsocialconnect module Display login and
registration of users
7 mod_btsocialconnect_widget module
Display widgets that are
taken from BT social
widgets
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Channel
- Facebook page
Channel
extension
Share messages to network
socials
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Widget:
- Facebook activity feed
- Facebook comment
- Facebook embedded
post
- Facebook Like box
- Facebook Facepile
recommendation bar
recommendation box
- Linkedin apply button
- Linkedin company
insider
- Linkedin company
profile
- Linkedin job
Widget
extension
Add or show articles in
module
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- Linkedin member
profile
- Twitter feed
- Google badge
- Google comment
- Google interactive
posts
Login button
Social share
2.4. Manual Installation
Please follow these steps to install the product:
Step 1: Go to Extension Manager
Step 2: Browse the install package
Step 3: Click “Upload & Install”
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Illustrated image of successful installation:
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2.5. Module Upgrading
Upgrading of this extension to newest version can be easily done by following again
installation steps above. But we recommend you to back up your changes of source
code and language files in this module before starting any upgrades. In case you have
trouble with upgrade, you can restore.
2.6. Uninstalling
For uninstalling the product, please follow these steps:
Step 1: Go to “Extension Manager”
Step 2: Click to “Manage” tab
Step 3: Choose “Component” style
Step 4: Mark checkbox of the component
Step 5: Click “Uninstall” button
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III. Fundamentals
3.1. Understanding Admin Panel
Back-end access: Choose “Component” from the main menu. Click “BT Social Connect” to
start configuration process.
All configuration parameters are divided into the following areas:
Dashboard: Control panel for whole system
User Manager: Manage all registered users
User Fields: Customize database at users’ panel
Channels: Connect to social networks
Social Widgets: Manage all applications of social networks
Messages manager : Manage all posts that are created and shared to social networks
Statistics: Show the number of users, connections, widgets, channels, messages…
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3.2. Setting up social login
3.2.1. Workflow
a. Goal
- Set up connections between a user account and social networks including settings
of social network configuration
- Set up user account when registering account via social networks or email
- Set up shared content and registered information on social networks
b. Steps
- Step 1: Configuration of Joomla Component: set up social connections and options
of user profile
- Step 2: Configuration of Joomla Module: display connections and database fields for
users to register or login their accounts
- Step 3: Configuration of Joomla Plugin: share registered information of users when
connecting with social networks
After finishing those three steps, users can register or login account easily. If a user
registers an account via a social network, user profile will be shared on this social
network.
3.2.2. Joomla component
a. Social login configuration
Go to Joomla administration => Select “Components” from Main menu => Choose BT
Social Connect to start => Hit “Option” => Choose tab “Social Setting” to configure for
social network connect.
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Let's refer the Social setting in this section:
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Facebook Set up configuration for Facebook
Facebook active: choose yes/no to connect with Facebook or not
To interact with Facebook users, system has to use Facebook App ID and Facebook
Application secret to interact with Facebook database.
- You'll need to create an application
athttp://www.facebook.com/developers/. This will give you an API key and
secret specific to your app.
1) Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps
2) Click on Create New App
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You can use Api key and App secret to connect with Facebook
Google Set up configuration for google
Google active : choose yes/no to connect with google or not
Set up Google App ID and Application secret:
- Sign-in to Google and go to Google API console, click APIs & auth/
Credentials on the left sidebar, click big button “Create new client ID”.
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Use Client ID and Client Secret to connect Google Plus
Twitter Set up configuration for Twitter
Twitter active: choose yes/no to connect with twitter or not
Set up Twitter App ID and Application secret :
- Go to the Developers website: https://dev.twitter.com/apps. Sign in with
your Twitter Account. Click “Create a new application” button on the upper
right
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Fill all information on callback url into your website
And you use consumer key and consumer secret to connect with Twitter
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Linkedin Set configuration for Linkedin
Linkedin active : choose yes/no to connect with LinkedIn or not
Set up Linkedin App ID and Application secret:
- You need to be logged in to your LinkedIn account to be able to access their
developer page. So first, login to your LinkedIn account and then follow the
link above to get to their developer page. They should be looked similar to
the one shown in the image below:
Go to https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer
After clicking button “Add new Application”, you use API Key and Secret Key to
connect with LinkedIn.
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Registration Flow Registration Options
Include2 options:
- Automatic: Get users’ profiles automatically from social accounts
- Normally: Load users’ profiles from social networks to registration
form. And users register an account themselves.
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b. User configuration
USER SETTING
Remove
username
Delete username and set your email as your ID
Ignore
activation
Skip the activation of users’ accounts (only for registration via
social networks)
Auto login Automatically sign up and log in
Login
redirection
Redirect to the supplied link when logging in the website
Logout Redirect to the supplied link when logging out the website
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redirection
USER SOCIAL SETTING
Facebook user
auto login
Login in the website automatically when an users login in their
User type Include 6 options:
- Auto: Let social username be login account
- Prefix Social ID : Prefix of a social network and its ID
profile, for example: Facebook (fb), Social
ID:100006338614342 and username:
fb_100006338614342
- Prefix Social Username: prefix and username of an social
account.
- Social ID: Social id profile of social networks.
- Social Username: Username of social networks.
- Social Email : User’s email that connects with social
networks
c. Users Fields
Each user may have different information like: Avatar, Gender, Birthday … That’s why
this component was built with Users Fields. Users fields which store users’ information
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are assigned to elements of social networks. It contains a list, toolbar, filter and
ordering.
Add a new User field
At “User fields manager” area, click “New” button. You will be delivered to “add-new
user field area”
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Tab “Default Field”
Title Giving title of user fields here
Alias Not entered , alias will automatically generated
Type Choose one from 05 types: Dropdown, Image, String, Text and Date
Default
Value
This parameter will be shown after choosing type. There are different
parameters corresponding to divergent types. This value is just default,
when the extra field is assigned to a category, and can be changed.
- If you choose “String” type, please enter a single text line.
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- If you choose “Image” type, please hit “Select” button to select
image path.
- “Dropdown” type: It’s a normal text box to enter label. And
“Default value”
- “Date” type: It’s a date picker, please pick a date
- “Text” type: It’s a text editor. This type allows us to enter content
such as: text, image, link …
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Status Choose 2 Status for user field (published or unpublished)
Ordering Order user field here. Only use this parameter when new user field is
created.
Required Required data entry
Show in
registration
Show field in registration form
Show in
listing
Show field name in list tab user in administrator
Description Enter description of user field here
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Tab “Assignment”
All data Assign Choose element to assign field
All new fields are supported to assign to available fields of
social networks. When registering an account, system will add
more users’ information based on assigned fields.
You can change orders of users fields at Administration to arrange orders of fields at back-
end and front-end.
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Back-end Register front-end
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d. Users Manager
List of registered users for management
- Add a new user
To add a new user, click button “New”.
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On “Add a new user”, there are 4 following tabs.
Tab “User login”
Name Enter name here. It’s required
Login name Enter user name to login. It’s required
Password Enter password to login
Confirm
password
Enter password confirm
Email Email of user login
Last visit date Date of last website logging-in by user
Last reset date Date of last resetting by user
Receive system
emails
Basic information and activity log of user account
Block this user Block user
Short
Description
Enter description of category here
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Tab “Details”
This tab detail will show all fields loading from table users fields. That is the user
formatted width value which is default or depended on user insert.
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Tab “Assigned user groups”
This tab shows default permission for registered user groups.
Tab “Connections”
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This tab shows connections of users that have been connected with their social
networks.
3.2.3. Joomla module
a. Module “mod_ btsocialconnect”
At Module “mod_ btsocialconnect, there are 2 alternative layouts to use:
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Layout “default”
Layout “popup”
Alternative Layout
Include 2 layouts: default and popup
Align option
Include 3 options:
- Right: login and register button at the right of the web page
- Left: login and register button at the left of the web page.
- Center: login and register button at the center of web page.
Display type Include 2 options:
- Modal: Click button to show popup register and login form.
- Dropdown: Click button to show “top” to “button” register
and login form.
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Mouse event Include 2 options:
- Click: click button to show form.
- Hover: hover button to show form.
Logout button Display logout button
Registration tab Display registration form or not
Login tags Entered tags will active login form with mouse events. Tags
separated by commas. Example :a.login, #loginform .buttonlogin
Registration
tags
Entered tags will active registration form with mouse events. Tags
separated by commas. Example :a.registrationlink, #registerform
.button
Width Login box The width of login form
Width
registration box
The width of registration form
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Login
redirection page
Redirect site when logging in the website
Logout
redirection page
Redirect site when logging out the website
Show
name/username
Include 2 options
- Name: display name of users
- User name: display usernames
Show avatar Display profile avatar
Logged modules Display modules for online users
Module position Position of displayed modules
Encrypt Login
Form
Submit encrypted login data (requires SSL). Do not enable
this option if Joomla is not accessible using the https://
protocol prefix.
Demo image of Popup layout:
Modal Drop down
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b. Demo “mod_ btsocialconnect”
3.2.4. Joomla plugins
a. Plugin “bt_socialregister “
BT social connect – Register
Registration
message
{name}: to be assigned to name of users
{site_url} : to be assigned to url of website
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Site logo in social share
Link to images. The image contains user’s
information that is shared with social networks.
b. Social register demo
3.3. Social Auto Submit
3.3.1. Workflow
a. Goal
- Set up shared content, for example, settings of link of articles and images
- Create channels to connect with social networks
b. Steps
- Step 1 - Configuration of Joomla Component: Set up shared content and create
channels to share articles
- Step 2 - Configuration of Joomla Plugin: Set up shared content including title,
description, images and channels when creating a new article.
After finishing those two steps, you can create a new article which will be shared on
selected social networks.
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3.3.2. Joomla component
a. Publishing settings
Enabled
publishing
To share articles with connected social networks
Count of
posts
viewed
Count the number of clicks of shared posts
Short url Include 4 options:
- None: maintain the original link
- Bitly:
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Shorten URL easily via your bitly account
- Google:
Shorten URL easily via your Api key account of Google
- Tinyurl: Shorten URL free
b. Image Setting
Crop thumb Allow to crop a thumbnail image when sharing articles (thumbnail
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image is stored at link: “images/bt_socialconnect/thumb/”)
Thumb width The width of thumbnail image
Thumb height The height of thumbnail image
c. Channels
Channels: Create social connections to share articles.
Create a new channel.
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Choose channels to connect
Include 2 tabs:
Tab “Detail” :
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The illustrated image is same with the image of “Choose channel to connect” step.
Name Name channel
Alias Insert channel Alias (If you add nothing in this field,
system will automatically create alias for the channel in
above field based on its name)
Status Set published or unpublished mode
Ordering Set the order following which channel are displayed
and arranged.
Created
time
The time to created=> create
Channel Name of channel have => has been created
Description Description of channel
Tab “options”
Click “Load facebook page” button to connect social accounts and the system will get
all your Facebook pages:
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Click the check box to the page to share it when you create an article.
3.3.3. Joomla plugin
a. Plugin“Bt_socialpublish” and “Bt_k2socialpublish“
(BT Social Publish – Content)- (BT K2Social Publish - Content)
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Message
template ,
Description
template
- {title} : Title of post
- {shorturl} : Short urls such as bitly, google…
- {url} : Original link of article
- {authorname} : Author’s name of article
- {introtext:x}: introduction of article and “x” is the
maximum number of texts
- {fulltext}: Full article
Category Select some categories or default (all categories) to share articles
with social networks
Social Select some social channels or default (all channels) to share
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channel articles
Default image
Image preview for the post.
If you do not insert any image, image preview is automatically
taken from one of images in your article. That is default mode for
image preview.
b. Facebook shared post demo
Following image shows how the Facebook shared post demo looks.
3.4. Social widgets
3.4.1. Workflow
a. Goal
Creating widget plugins for all applications of Facebook, Twitter, Google and
Linkedin helps users show widgets on websites, and insert widgets in articles or
anywhere on website in the form of code plugin.
b. Steps
- Configuration of Joomla Component: create widgets and their configuration for
website
- Configuration of Joomla Module: select one or more created widgets to display on
website as module if users need
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- Configuration of Joomla Plugin: set up plugins which are added in articles. Add-on
widgets are displayed at exact position of articles
3.4.2. Joomla component
Social widgets
The creation of Social Widgets is based on applications of social networks such as
Facebook , Linkedin , Google or Twitter…
Create a new Social Widget:
Click “Add” button to create an application. On “Select a widget type” window, just
click application’s name to use it.
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After creating a new one, you can see the newly created demo. And click “circle” to
display demo
There are 3 tabs in demo:
Preview View demo after creation
Plugin
insert
Insert text in box to where you want to display widget.
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Code
html
Insert code into your html page to displaythis widget
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3.4.3. Joomla module
a. Module “Mod_bt_socialwidget”
And show module in front – end with choose => choosing “Facebook Like Box”
b. Demo “Mod_bt_socialwidget”
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3.4.4. Joomla plugins
a. Plugin “Plugin-button-addwidget”
BT SocialConnect - Addwidget Content: Supplying a button that allows users to add
widget items into articles
When adding widget items into articles, these widgets will be exactly displayed at the
position as the position of added widgets.
b. Widget button demo
Following image shows the position of widget when you add “widget:facebook-
comment box” widget into articles.
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3.5. Statistics and Message Logs
3.5.1. Message
Message manager can manage all the shared articles. Not only can articles be created
from Content and K2 Component but it also can be created from direct click on the
“New” button to add message.
Create a new message:
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Title Title of article
Message Message of post
Link Link of shared article
Full text Full text of article
Image url Image of article
Channel Select channel accounts to share article
Status There are 3 options:
- Pending (default): Message is waiting for approval
- Submitted: Message is sending to ticked social channels
- Error: error message
If messages are “pending” or “error”, you can click on “Submit” button to send articles
again. After successful sending, the state is changed from “pending” or “error” to
“submitted”. Otherwise, there is an error notice in the end.
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Manage created messages:
Created by The person who shares articles
Type Types of social channels
Title Title of article
Link Link of article
Message Content of shared article
Content type 3 content types of shared articles:
- Joomla content: articles from Content Component
- K2 content: articles from K2 Component
- Custom Content: articles from BT Social Connect Component
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Log Save sending history of article
Number of click The number of clicks on shared articles
3.5.2. Statistics
The statistic
User statistic: User connection, Message post
System statistic: Error messages, Used widgets, Used channels
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IV. Advanced Settings (Add-on settings)
Advanced Setting instructs how to add more third-party extensions on BT Social
Connect. It’s being updated and written in document of BT Social Connect
Commercial version. Check out here to see it.
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V. Common error using product
5.1. Post article error
This error may be occurred if you use multiple social connections to share an article.
And connecting date takes more amount of time than it should do in limited time.
Bowthemes offers an approach to reconnect data so this error notice will not affect
sharing and saving your articles.
5.2. Facebook error
Terms of sharing articles:
Facebook has increased the length limit of a status from 160 to 420, 500, 5000 and
now is 63,206 characters
Common errors:
“The url you supplied is invalid” or “This link could not be posted.”
The article cannot be shared if the Url is wrong
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VI. Contacting Bowthemes
All Bowthemes products include forum support, email support and ticket support.
Please refer your membership package to select the compatible kind of support, as we may
be able to solve the problem without delay.
Website: http://bowthemes.com
Forum support: http://bowthemes.com/forums/
Email support: [email protected]
Ticket support: http://bowthemes.com/submit-a-ticket
If you encounter any issues with Bowthemes extensions and templates, email us at
[email protected] and we will be happy to answer your questions.
This document is proprietary and confidential. No part of this document may be disclosed in any
manner to a third party without the prior written consent of Bowthemes Team.
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