Socialize Module for Drupal

Networks available to socialize

Select the social networks that you wish to make available for user authentication:

Your selection will affect the user interface of the Gigya Login Component, which will now display the icons of the selected social networks:

Share with a friend settings

This feature enables the user to send a direct message ("notification") in Facebook and Twitter, telling friends about a particular content item and driving traffic back to your site via the link in the notification. Enabling this feature will add a link to the links area at the bottom of each content item. When the user clicks the link, a popup dialog opens, in which the user can select friends and send them a message about the related content item. You may configure the "Share with friends" feature in the following ways:

• Specify the text of the link.
• Determine which content types will include this feature. For example, if you select "Story", a "Share with friends" link will appear at the bottom of each Story in your site.
• Specify the default text message that will be suggested to the user.

In the following example, we specify the following configuration: the link text will be "Share with friends" and the link will appear at the bottom of each Page but not at the bottom of each Story. You may also see the specified text for the suggested message:

This is a screenshot of the outcome - a "Share with friends" link at the bottom of a Page:

When a user clicks the link, a popup opens enabling the user to select friends. The popup displays the "suggested message" text previously specified. Pressing the "OK" button will send a notification to all selected friends.

Socialize status update options

The "status update" feature enables the user to automatically post status updates to his social network profile when creating or editing content on the Drupal site.

If you choose to do so, you may add a small "Post update to Social Network" sub-form to the bottom of the Node-Add and Note-Edit forms, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using this sub-form, the user may edit the default suggested status text and select whether or not to post it. If the user decides to post, her status will be updated automatically when pressing the "Save" button. The user's status will be updated on all the social networks to which the user is currently connected and which support status updates. The following social networks currently support status updates: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Yahoo.

You may configure the status update feature by:

• Determining which content types will include this feature. For example, if you select "Page", the "Post update to Social Networks" sub-form will appear at the bottom of the "Create Page" and the Page>Edit forms.
• Specifying the default text that will be suggested to the user to be the status text. The text may include the following replacement texts: !url, !url-alias, !tinyurl, !title and !user. 

In the following example, we chose to add the "Post update to Social Networks" sub-form only to Story related forms. We have also edited the suggested status text:

This is a screenshot of the outcome - a "Post update to Social Networks" sub-form at the bottom of a Create Story form. Please note, too, that we have specified a suggested status text:

When the user clicks the "Save" button, his status will be automatically updated on all the social networks to which he is connected. The following screenshot shows the new status posted on Facebook:

Please note the translation of !user, !title and !tinyurl in the status text.

Parameters for Login UIConfig

In this section you may configure the user interface of the Login block area.

Login configuration options are:

Parameters for friends UIConfig

The Gigya Socialize Friends Selection component appears inside a popup whenever a user clicks a "Share with Friends" link. The component presents the user's list of friends from all the social networks to which he is connected. The component lets users browse and select a group of friends to whom they can send messages (you can find a screenshot of the Friends Selection component in the Share with a friend settings section above).

This configuration section provides several options for configuring the look-and-feel of the Gigya Socialize Friends Selection component.

You may specify caption, sizes and colors:

Parameters for editConnections UIConfig

The Gigya Socialize Edit Connections component enables ones to establish connections to additional social networks and disconnect existing connections. In addition to being able to login using a specific social network,  users can connect to additional social networks so they can send status updates, share with friends, etc. on multiple social networks. This also applies to regular Drupal logged in users. So, users who logged in using the standard Drupal login can now connect to one or more social networks and see their friends, send status updates, etc.

The Gigya Socialize Edit Connections component appears in My Account -> Edit -> Social Networks:

The component displays user information from each social network to which the user is connected. It also provides a disconnect option and enables the user to connect to all the social networks to which she is not connected.

The configuration section provides several parameters for configuring the look-and-feel of the Gigya Socialize Edit Connections component.

Gigya <=> Drupal Profile Mappings

This section enables one to configure the mapping between user information fields that Gigya provides (by pulling from social networks) and profile fields in the Drupal website. The mapping configuration is used in the user registration - the registration form will be pre-populated with data pulled from the user's social network.

This configuration section includes the list of profile fields defined in your Drupal website. Each profile field includes a dropdown with fields that Gigya can provide. The list of fields that Gigya can provide depends on which social network the user is connected to and what information he has provided on that network.

Post to Gigya Socialize Newsfeed Action

This action generates and posts a Newsfeed. The Newsfeed feature is currently supported by Facebook and Yahoo. The configuration options for this Action are:

• Edit the Description text, so as to make this action easily identifiable.
• The Action Template is provided by default. This field defines the structure of the Newsfeed message. In most cases there is no need thto edit this field. The default structure is "{actor} {action} {thing}", where:
  • {actor} is translated to the user name
  • {action} is populated with the text that you define in the Default Action (Verb) Message field below.
  • {thing} is translated to the title of the content element that the user acts upon
• Define the action text in the Default Action (Verb) Message field. A few examples of relevant texts for this field: "has posted", "is viewing", "has commented on" and so on.
  Hint: the message text is typically related to the Trigger to which we wish to assign this action. For example, if we want to assign this action to the "After saving a new post" Trigger, then a proper text for this field would be: "has posted".
• Restrict newsfeed items to the following content types - Select the content types in the context of which this action will be triggered.

Update Social Network Status with Gigya Socialize Action

When this Action is triggered, the user will be presented with a popup which gives her the option to update her status on her social networks. The configuration options for this Action are:

• Edit the Description text, so as to make this action easily identifiable.
• Restrict status updates to the following content types - select the content types in the context of which this Action will be triggered.

      The following configuration fields are relevant if this Action is triggered by a "Users" Trigger (e.g., "Trigger: After a user account has been created"):

• User status update description - the description which will be presented to the user on the update status popup. 
• User default message - the default text which will be suggested to the user as the status text.

      The following configuration fields are relevant, if this Action is triggered by a "Content / Comments" Trigger (e.g., "Trigger: After saving a new comment"):

• Node/comment status update description - the description which will be presented to the user on the update status popup. 
• Node/comment default message - the default text which will be suggested to the user as the status text.