By Haki Saki on Friday, 24 June 2016
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I am having issues with sharing an ES event to FB..no image or event info is being displayed (see attached)..thoughts?

The first image is what's being shared, the 2nd image is the event that I want to share.
The reason that nothing is showing up is entirely because your site is restricted to members only. In order for you to share items on Facebook and still have these info appear, your items need to be public.

Please refer to Facebooks guide here for more details, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#crawl
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 02:58
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I'm confused then as yes the ES part of the site is members only but I can post from Groups? I can set Group Modules as public and it seems to be ok but Events do not...what am I missing?
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:10
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In short, if you cannot access the page as a non logged in user, then that link wouldn't work on Facebook. I believe you have one of your menu item referencing to events and it is set to "Registered".
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:19
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I understand in principle but I can see the Event (not logged in) and the Menu Item (see attached) is public
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:34
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If you have just made it public, you need to tell Facebook to purge it's crawler's cache. To do so,

1. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/ . Enter your url that you are trying to share

2. Click on the debug button, http://take.ms/2qk9O

3. Then click on the "Scrape Again"
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:39
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so then in FB scrape cycle all events will be included?
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:53
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It only refreshes the cache of that url that you are trying to clear. For other urls that wasn't scraped before, it wouldn't be cached.

This unfortunately is not something that we can control.
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:55
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Thank you for your help.
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 04:01
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No problem.
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 04:05
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