By Andrew on Tuesday, 04 August 2015
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Can we change or customize the Post Title when sharing to Facebook? Especially when sharing links, etc...
See attached screenshot
Hey Andrew,

I am sorry but unfortunately right now it isn't possible to do this currently.
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Tuesday, 04 August 2015 23:09
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Where is the text coming from at present? Could I maybe reword the 'value' of the language constant to get better text. It is a pity that one can't edit it during share stage, as currently it is displaying really silly on Facebook as every share has the same title.... Not attractive ;-(

any help or tips would be appreciated...
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 00:00
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The codes are located in /components/com_easysocial/views/stream/view.html.php at line 94


$stream->opengraph->addTitle($title);


Please take note that support is not provided for customizations.
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 00:40
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What is the Language constant for that title?
('user' shared a link....)

Maybe we can start by making a better title. Could we not let it use the title from the linked content?
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 02:13
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Hi Andrew,

The title is coming directly from the post itself. If you want to alter it you can simply alter it as follow for example:
$newtitle = 'user shared a link - ' . $title;
$stream->opengraph->addTitle($newtitle);


By the way please take note that support is not provided for customizations and we will only help by giving the basic instruction on how to do it.
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 11:12
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Nope, not that title. I am referring to the Post Title which is added to the Facebook post when you share the stream (link share) post to Facebook.
See attached image... It seems to be a language file string. I would've liked for it to rather use the article's title, that would be better.
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 13:57
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Hey Andrew,

The opengraph titles are being added on the file that I have provided above. The content comes from the theme files of the links app /media/com_easysocial/apps/user/links/themes/default/streams/title.create.php

I am sorry but we are unable to further assist you with this as this is beyond the scope of our support.
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Thursday, 06 August 2015 03:03
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