Social Media Posts
Share content posted on corporate social media to enrich your SharePoint intranet communication.
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Share content posted on corporate social media to enrich your SharePoint intranet communication.
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Social Media Posts allows you to share with your colleagues the best content from the company's LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok profiles.
Filter the posts and add them to the bulletin board to complement the intranet news and make internal communication more comprehensive.
If your page is not already in edit mode, click Edit at the top right of the page.
Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part and you'll see a line with a circled +, like this:
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter Social Media Posts to quickly find and select the Social Media Posts web part, which is named "IAI - SocialMediaPosts".
The view settings allows you to customize the appearance of your application by adjusting various layout settings.
By opening this first configuration, you will see the following options:
Do you want to hide the background? You can choose to hide or display the webpart background The default setting is “No”. This means that, by default, the webpart is characterized by a white background. If you enable this option, the white card background will be completely removed, allowing the content appear directly on the page. As a result, the webpart will be transparent, showing either the selected background image or the chosen SharePoint page color.
Do you want to hide the background shadow? You can choose whether to show or hide the background shadow. The default setting is “No”. This means that, by default, the webpart is characterized by a subtle depth effect that can make the webpart stand out more against the rest of the page. If you enable this option, the shadow behind the background will be removed, giving the web part a flatter, cleaner look without any depth.
Select the type of background shadow If you decide to set the background shadow, a further configuration will appear and you can select the style from High Contrast, Light, or Dark options.
If you select High contrast, this option creates a strong, bold shadow effect that provides a high level of contrast between the background and the content.
By choosing the Light background shadow, it will create a soft and subtle effect, giving a more delicate and gentle depth to the background.
Finally, the Dark background shadow style provides a darker, more intense effect, adding depth and emphasizing the background even more.
Enter the application title Thanks to this configuration, you can customize the application title. If you keep it blank, SharePoint will show the default title “Social media posts” at the top left angle of the webpart.
Do you want to hide the title section? Here you can select whether to show the webpart title or hide it. If set to visible, the web part title will appear on the left side.
Enter the site where the social media list is present: here, put the url of the site where the list is stored.
i.e., https://intranetai.sharepoint.com/sites/my-hub/
Select the list: once you paste the link of the site in the previous step, you'll be able to select the proper list between the ones available in it. Here, please select Social Media Posts.
Do you want to set the height of the webpart? This section will allow you to select a personalized height for the webpart. If you decide to keep this field on No, the webpart will adapt this size to the amount of posts uploaded to the dedicated list.
Once you're done with these configurations, always remember to click on Republish to allow the intranet population to see the webpart properly configured.
Once you're done with the webpart configuration, the next step is to add the posts you'd like to highlight.
First of all, click on the gear icon at the top right of the page, then click on Site contents.
Then, please scroll down until you see the Social Media Posts list.
To add new posts, click on +New on the top right of the page:
A sidebar will appear, with these three pieces of information requested:
Social Media: this field is mandatory. Here the information requested is to select between Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn or Facebook.
Post URL: this field must be completed in case you select Instagram or TikTok.
Iframe Code: this field must be completed in case you select LinkedIn or Facebook.
As previously mentioned, the Post URL has to be put in case you need to embed Instagram or TikTok.
As previously mentioned, the Iframe Code has to be put in case you need to embed LinkedIn or Facebook.
To embed a LinkedIn post, click on the three dots on the top right of the post, then click on Embed this post. Lastly, click the blue button saying Copy code.
To embed a Facebook post, please click on the three dots on the top right of the page, then click on Embed. Lastly, click the blue button saying Copy code.
Click on the Edit properties button on the left of the web part to open the property pane, where you will have a few sections to configure. See below for more information on each of these sections.
Please note: this feature will be possible in case you have enabled the sharing functionality. In case you need to know how to do so, .
