Share News Article URL with LinkedIn

[Richard Newsome]

Howdy,  I just noticed some strange behavior with dotCMS and LinkedIn.  URLs that are part of an UrlMapping do not seem to be followed when those links are shared on LinkedIn.  Code is below.  

Here is a sample URL.

https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/creativity-of-graphic-design-students-in-spotlight-at-akron-awards-ceremony/

<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_32x32_style">

    <a class="addthis_button_linkedin" addthis:url='https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/creativity-of-graphic-design-students-in-spotlight-at-akron-awards-ceremony/' addthis:title='Title'> </a>

</div>

<!-- Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools --> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5c799963f10d8da5"></script>

Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks

[Mark Pitely]

I am not entirely sure what the issue is; I've never seen this sort of problem.

It could be the trailing slash - for an UrlMap, that probably shouldn't be there - that is:

https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/creativity-of-graphic-design-students-in-spotlight-at-akron-awards-ceremony

is preferable to

https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/creativity-of-graphic-design-students-in-spotlight-at-akron-awards-ceremony/

Perhaps try that and see if it clears up?

Mark Pitely

Marywood University

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[Richard Newsome]

Nope that did not fix it.  I tried another URL that uses the URL mapping functionality and it does NOT work as well for LinkedIn.  It seems LinkedIn is following the page path (ends with .dot) and not the URL Map. Any other ideas?

[Mark Pitely]

I guess I am not sure what you mean by 'linkedin' in this case - your use case is unclear to me.

Are you using some sort of javascript social toolbar plugin and the 'share' button for linkedin is not working properly? Can you give me the page on your site that is doing this?

If the plugin is accesing some dotCMS/Velocity code, it might be using $VTLSERVLET_URI for generating the page link, and that would need to be changed to use URLMaps.

Mark

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[Falzone, Chris]

It sounds like you are using addthis and sending it $VTLSERVLET_URI for all pages, but you can't use that for detail pages, you have to generate those links for the detail pages.  

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