Social Share gives you the ability to award your users for sharing content from your website, but first you need to configure points awards or deducts, steps or rank requirements with the new activity events.
On activate Social Share you will see the following activity events:
URL sharing events
Since Social Share let’s you setup the URL to share there are 2 groups of events. The URL sharing events will be triggered always and are based on the URL the user shared.
- Share any url on any social network: When an users shares an url on a social network.
- Share specific url on any social network: When an users shares a specific url on a social network.
- Share any url on specific social network: When an users shares an url on a specific social network.
- Share specific url on specific social network: When an users shares a specific url on a specific social network.
Post sharing events
If the URL shared matches with a registered post URL then Social Share will trigger events based on this post.
- Share any post on any social network: When an users shares a post on a social network.
- Share specific post on any social network: When an users shares a specific post on a social network.
- Share any post on specific social network: When an users shares a post on a specific social network.
- Share specific post on specific social network: When an users shares a specific post on a specific social network.
In addition, there are events to award to the post author that got their post shared through the different social networks.
- Get a share on any social network on any post When an author gets a share on any social network on a post.
- Get a share on any social network on a specific post When an author gets a share on any social network on a specific post.
- Get a share on a specific social network on any post When an author gets a share on a specific social network on a post.
- Get a share on a specific social network on a specific post When an author gets a share on a specific social network on a specific post.
There is an example of an achievement configured with the Social Share activity events:
If you have any doubt configuring your points awards or achievements you can follow the next tutorials that will help you configuring them:
Creating a Points Type
Creating an Achievement Type
Creating a Rank Type