My customer wants to be able to publish a list of blogs on the LinkedIn site. Can this module help with that?

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#16 linkedin_share.zip2.37 KBmaddentim
#4 augie_linkedin.jpg94.86 KBnancydru

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tryitonce commented

Well, it doesn't do that on the site where I am using it.

The module on my site will publish only certain Content Types - such as Articles and Polls. It seems to be very "selective" of what it allows you to publish.

I raised this point here previously. In the config. of the module all my Content Types appear and when I set them correctly and then save the amendments are ignored and the LinkedIn option will only appear on some pages - Articles and Polls for sure (from Drupal core install.).

Would be keen to find out what experiences others have --

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Well, that doesn't sound terribly hard to fix once I try the module.

What my customer want is just a list of the titles, linked to our site. Something similar to what you see under "Blog Link" here http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1114350&goback=%2Enmp_*...

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tryitonce commented

Sorry Nancy,

I can't follow that link - as "I have nothing in common with that user" on LinkedIn.com.

My note about the Content Type activation problem is here - http://drupal.org/node/807670 - in case you come a cross it. A solution would be nice.

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Here's a screen capture.

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tryitonce commented

Nancy,

there is a solution to the limitation in the LinkedIn module. All Content Type where you want to use LinkedIn module needs to have a name without spaces.

Forum and Blog still don't work if you link the two name parts with underscore or hyphen.

So - Content Type "Product Notes" needs to be changed to "Product_Notes".

Then back to the config of LinkedIn Module and reactivate the Content Type - now the LinkedIn box should turn up when you create a node under that CT.

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Title: Can I publish to LinkedIn with thsi module? » Can I publish to LinkedIn with this module?

Thanks. That's not a big deal; CCK makes doing that easy.

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bellesmanieres commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

See #860978: Use machine name of node types for settings

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Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

What was duplicate was the side-tracked information. Please refer to the original post plus comments 2 and 4. I don't feel that it has been answered.

Again, my customer wants each of 200+ people to be able to have a list of their recent blogs (title, maybe teaser, date, link to our site) posted onto LI - automatically (preferably at node creation or alternatively at cron time).

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Category: support » feature
Status: Active » Postponed

Hi,
What you can (and always could) do with this module is updating your LinkedIn Status at node creation/update, with custom text and/or placeholders like node title or url. LinkedIn status is limited to 140 characters, so there is no room for a teaser. Guess that not too far from what you want.
There was no other way to push data into LinkedIn Profile other than by the status update when the module was first developed. There is now (since Jul 19, 2010) a new "Share" API that is more flexible, but of not course implemented as it is a month old.

Pascal

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Any idea how Augie is doing it now? (See the link above.)

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The screenshot from #4 shows the "Blog Link" app. It's not data pushed into LI but pulled from LI. It's an app integrated in LI you can activate in you LinkedIn.com profile. There is also a similar Wordpress app.
I guess you need to have your blog on Typepad to use BlogLink (or on wordpress.com for Wordpress), but I never tried, so can't be 100% sure.

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His blogs are not on typepad, they are on our site. The problem with that method is that any time someone looks at his profile, it comes to our site and does at least one read on each post that is listed, thereby screwing up our stats. We'd like to have better control over the content of the LI list and stats.

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Don't now what to answer. The new Share API will probably get implemented at some time, but I can't tell when ...

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Then I may have to start from scratch on this. I will be happy to share my code with you when I get it done. Is there any part of this module, as it currently stands, that would be useful in starting this?

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bellesmanieres commented

Sure. the "Status Update" module should not too difficult to adapt to the "Share API", I believe (did not check deeply, but they seem quite similar.) Wrote some doc at http://drupal.org/node/919412

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maddentim commented
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new linkedin_share.zip2.37 KB

I have a submodule that I have been using with a couple customer that implements a share on linkedin button in the node links area. See attached.

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davad commented
Status: Postponed » Fixed

Updated to use the Share API as of http://drupalcode.org/project/linkedin.git/commit/51db518

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.