Automatically publish nodes to facebook with publish checkbox
Last updated on
30 April 2025
Step 1 adding fields
At first create a node type and add existing fields as seen in this image

Step 2 creating rule

Rule code example
Note: Remember to change the page ID
{ "rules_post_nodes_to_facebook_wall_on_update" : {
"LABEL" : "Post nodes to Facebook Wall",
"PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
"OWNER" : "rules",
"TAGS" : [ "facebook" ],
"REQUIRES" : [ "rules", "fb_autopost_entity" ],
"ON" : { "node_update" : [], "node_insert" : [] },
"IF" : [
{ "node_is_of_type" : {
"node" : [ "node" ],
"type" : { "value" : {
"article" : "article",
"frage" : "frage",
"news" : "news",
"product_review" : "product_review"
}
}
}
},
{ "entity_has_field" : { "entity" : [ "node" ], "field" : "field_facebook_message" } },
{ "NOT data_is_empty" : { "data" : [ "node:field-facebook-message" ] } },
{ "entity_has_field" : { "entity" : [ "node" ], "field" : "field_facebook_published" } },
{ "data_is" : { "data" : [ "node:field-facebook-published" ], "value" : 1 } }
],
"DO" : [
{ "entity_create" : {
"USING" : {
"type" : "facebook_publication",
"param_type" : "link",
"param_user" : [ "site:current-user" ]
},
"PROVIDE" : { "entity_created" : { "facebook_link" : "Facebook Link" } }
}
},
{ "data_set" : {
"data" : [ "facebook-link:field-facebook-message" ],
"value" : [ "node:field-facebook-message" ]
}
},
{ "publish_to_facebook" : {
"USING" : { "publication" : [ "facebook-link" ], "pages" : "1XXX3402865" },
"PROVIDE" : { "facebook_publication_id" : { "facebook_publication_id" : "Facebook publication returned ID" } }
}
},
{ "data_set" : { "data" : [ "node:field-facebook-published" ], "value" : 0 } },
{ "drupal_message" : { "message" : "[node:title] wurde auf Facebook ver\u00f6ffentlicht." } }
]
}
}
Step 3 final result

IMPORTANT
You also needed to set permissions :

set "Publish Actions." If i dont it doesnt work.
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