Adding a "Share This" button into a dynamic list

Daniel Laender

We have a "Share This" button on our press releases page and blog posts inserted into a dynamic list, but when you try to post a specific press release, it shares the page instead of that specific item. Is there a way to have a share this button in the dynamic list that works by sharing the specific item and not the page that it's displaying in?

The share this code I'm using is:

<script type="text/javascript" src="#tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=035fe23e-16c7-470a-abc7-15a2927af4f8"></script>

This is the share this site: /

Here are the pages with the "share this" button:

So if you click on the "share this" link, and think you are sharing the one press release, it will share the page instead of the item.

Thanks,

Daniel

Eric Helmuth

From our experience using AddThis (an essentially similar sharing tool) I doubt this is possible, but I would suggest that it may not be desirable anyway. I have to think that most web users need to read at least a few lines of the main story content before they feel motivated to use a Share feature.

So we just put the Share tool on individual stories. It was very easy to insert the AddThis javascript in the display template. Example page:

http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2009/new-hazelden-survey.html

(mouse over the tiny-text + Share button in the article tools area near the top.

Eric Helmuth

www.JoinTogether.org

Bruce Keilin

Eric Helmuth:

From our experience using AddThis (an essentially similar sharing tool) I doubt this is possible, but I would suggest that it may not be desirable anyway. I have to think that most web users need to read at least a few lines of the main story content before they feel motivated to use a Share feature.

So we just put the Share tool on individual stories. It was very easy to insert the AddThis javascript in the display template. Example page:

http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2009/new-hazelden-survey.html

(mouse over the tiny-text + Share button in the article tools area near the top.

Eric Helmuth

www.JoinTogether.org

Eric,

I agree with you on the "may not be desirable" part, but I am compelled to say that it is possible. See this webmonkey.com article about using sharethis.com for the solution.

Eric Helmuth

Bruce Keilin:

Eric,

I agree with you on the "may not be desirable" part, but I am compelled to say that it is possible. See this webmonkey.com article about using sharethis.com for the solution.

Very cool Bruce, I wasn't aware of that Share This functionality. And that article makes a good point about instances where multiple Share buttons could make sense -- a blog archive or photo gallery. I happily stand corrected.

So if someone wanted to implement this capability in Convio CMS, is there a code string that will dynamically populate the direct URL of each item in a list template into the ShareThis javascript?

Bruce Keilin

Eric Helmuth:

Very cool Bruce, I wasn't aware of that Share This functionality. And that article makes a good point about instances where multiple Share buttons could make sense -- a blog archive or photo gallery. I happily stand corrected.

So if someone wanted to implement this capability in Convio CMS, is there a code string that will dynamically populate the direct URL of each item in a list template into the ShareThis javascript?

If you are inside a repeating block (e.g. "t:list" or "") then the URL property refers to the current item being iterated, not the page containing the list. This code sample below is ugly, but illustrates what I mean:

You'll need to be careful escaping any literal single quotes in the title to prevent Javascript errors.

Daniel Laender

Thanks, Bruce. It worked!

http://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/press-releases/2009/statement-by-reid-detchon.html

Best,

Daniel

Bruce Keilin

Daniel Laender:

Thanks, Bruce. It worked!

http://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/press-releases/2009/statement-by-reid-detchon.html

Best,

Daniel

Glad to hear it, Daniel.