You can enable or disable the ability of community users to share community content
to a variety of social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail. By default,
this feature is disabled. For security reasons, we recommend not enabling this feature
in internally-facing communities (typically those that involve only employees or other
internal audiences).
When you enable this feature, users will be able to share documents, discussions, and blog posts
on a variety of social channels. Users can even share community places if a place
owner has enabled the Social Sharing widget in the place. You have the option of enabling some channels and
not others.
In addition, you have the option of
tracking your community's sharing stats via AddThis.
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In the Admin Console, go to and Enable social sharing.
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You can enable or disable click tracking; this is optional. If you enable this, AddThis will collect
your community's sharing stats. You'll also need to specify your AddThis profile ID. (If not,
leave the profile ID field blank).
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In the Toolbox HTML field, select how you want your sharing buttons to be displayed
for users in your community (vertical, horizontal, and so on) as well as which channels to
feature (Facebook, Twitter, and so on). For specific code
illustrations, refer to the documentation from AddThis.
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Click Save Settings when you're finished.