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title: "Sharing via Social Media"
slug: "sharing-via-social-media"
updated: 2025-03-06T16:52:33Z
published: 2025-03-06T16:52:33Z
canonical: "docs.blackthorn.io/sharing-via-social-media"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.blackthorn.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Sharing via Social Media

*Encourage Attendees to share your Event on social media!*

![Paid Checkout_Social_webpage](https://cdn.document360.io/f977eec0-500f-40a3-b663-724a51f78075/Images/Documentation/Paid%20Checkout_Social_webpage.png)

Use the **Share** button to generate a URL for Attendees to share Events via email or on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, or Facebook. The shareable link includes metadata like OG tags to generate a URL preview for the image, title, and description.

*Please note that the **Share** button is not available for Event Groups.*

Clicking the **Share** button from an Event webpage, the Experience Cloud, or an unregistered Attendee’s AttendeeLink opens a window with a shareable link and buttons for each platform. When you click the **Email**, **LinkedIn**, **X/Twitter**, or **Facebook** icon, the following happens.

- Email: Enter a "To" email address, add the remainder of the email's text, and click **Send**.
- LinkedIn: Enter a message to accompany the link and click **Post**.
- Twitter: Use the following message: “I am looking forward to attending [Event Name] - you can check it out here: [event social URL]") or edit it and click **Post**.
- Facebook: Enter a message to accompany the link and click **Share**.

![Paid Checkout_social_click share](https://cdn.document360.io/f977eec0-500f-40a3-b663-724a51f78075/Images/Documentation/Social%20Sharing%20with%20Email.png)

Sharing Links to Facebook

Facebook will only correctly render images larger than 200x200px in Facebook posts.

## Set Up and Enable

The Event Settings **Enable Social Sharing** checkbox allows Event Organizers to show or hide the **Share** button on an Event webpage.

- Object: Event Settings
- Field Label: **Enable Social Sharing**
- API Name: conference360__Enable_Social_Sharing__c
- Data Type: Checkbox
  - Default: Unchecked (hide button by default)
  - When enabled (checked), potential Attendees will see the **Share** button across all user interfaces.
  - When disabled (unchecked), potential Attendees will not see the **Share** button.

*If you don’t want Attendees to see the **Share** button, no additional action is needed.*

To use the **Enable Social Sharing** checkbox, start by adding it to the Event Settings page layout.

1. Click the **Gear** icon in the upper right-hand corner.
2. Click **Setup**.
3. Click the Object Manager tab.
4. In the Quick Find box, enter and click “Event Settings.”
5. Click the Page Layouts tab.
6. Click the Page Layout Name.
7. In the Quick Find box, enter “Enable Social Sharing.”
8. Drag and drop the field on the page layout.
9. Click **Save**.
10. Go to the Event Settings record.
11. Click the **Pencil** icon next to the “Enable Social Sharing field.
12. Check the box.
13. Click **Save**.
14. Go to the related Event record and click **Update**.

![Event Settings_Social Sharing Field](https://cdn.document360.io/f977eec0-500f-40a3-b663-724a51f78075/Images/Documentation/Event%20Settings_Social%20Sharing%20Field.png)