About Sharing

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ShortStack's Share Feature

There are two types of sharing native to ShortStack: sharing the entire campaign, and sharing the content of an individual widget. Both methods require that you first add at least one Share Widget to your campaign. To learn how to set up both of these methods, please visit the documents to enable sharing on the campaign, or enable sharing for individual widgets.

Manually Sharing the Campaign's URL

You can share your campaign to Facebook and other services that support Open Graph by pasting the campaign's URL into a Status Update, Post, etc. 

To update the default share settings, click on the Campaign Settings at the top of the Campaign Builder, denoted by the gear icon. Then click on the section labeled Sharing. Here, you will find the Default Title, Description, and Image that will be displayed when someone shares your campaign URL.

Note: Changing the title, description, and image does not alter your previous posts. You will have to create new posts to see the updated title, description, and image.

Do not share the Facebook generated URL for your campaign (https://www.facebook.com/…). This URL is not mobile friendly and you have no control over the link details that Facebook inserts. Always share the campaign URL.

Show Share Prompt Upon Form Submission

Enabling the share prompt upon form submission displays a share prompt to the entrant so that he or she can share the content of the Form Widget to their Timeline. Read the Form Container article for more information.

Note: ShortStack does not automatically post a person's contest entry or vote to his or her Timeline. To do so would require use of the Allow Prompt, which ShortStack does not serve because of the high abandonment rate associated with it.

Show Voting Share Prompt

You can show the share icons for entries in the Entry Display Widget by enabling sharing. For more information, review the Entry Display Widget help doc. 

Encourage Sharing with Refer-a-Friend

You can reward your contest entrants by giving them extra points (extra chances to win) when they share your promotion with their friends. Read the Refer-a-Friend article for more information.

Trigger the Share Prompt in a Popup after Form Submission

You can use the Action Widget to open the Share Widget in a pop-up.

1. Add a new Container Widget. 
2. Set the visibility of this Container to pop-up. 
3. Add a Share Widget to this container. You may also add a Rich Text Widget and/or an Image Widget to show in the pop-up as well. 
4. Add an Action Widget. 
5. In the WHEN section, add "form is submitted". 
6. In the THEN section, add "container widget will pop-up". 
7. Save and exit.

For more in-depth instructions, please review the Action Widget Help Doc. 

"Share to Win" Contests are Prohibited

A Share to Win contest is prohibited by the Facebook Promotion Guidelines, which states: "Personal Timelines must not be used to administer promotions (ex: "share on your Timeline to enter" or "share on your friend's Timeline to get additional entries") is not permitted.