http://forums.sharethis.com/ ShareThis Forums Tag: STAPI en Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:53:45 +0000 http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-956 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:29 +0000 hassanhodges 956@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I started using this technique a couple months ago and it worked like a charm, until sometime overnight last night when it started blowing up the page.</p> <p>&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;<br /> function deferIt(){<br /> var obj = SHARETHIS.addEntry({<br /> }, {button:true,bind:false});<br /> var el = document.getElementById("sharemail");<br /> obj.attachButton(el);<br /> }</p> <p>window.onload = function() {<br /> deferIt();<br /> }<br /> &lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>When I remove the deferit function it works fine.</p> <p>I also see the same problem on the sample page <a href="http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html" rel="nofollow">http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html</a></p> <p>any ideas? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-stats-not-working#post-929 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:58 +0000 ShareThisSupport 929@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>For some reason, you had a completely blank option under view report as your default view. I've removed this option from your account and you should now be seeing loupiote.com as the default listed. To switch between domains use the dropdown box in the top right view of the dashboard. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-stats-not-working#post-928 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:34:34 +0000 loupiote 928@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>i see all data as "zero" in the report. i'm using safari and FF on a mac. is that a known issue on macos 10.4 ? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-stats-not-working#post-893 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:11:25 +0000 ShareThisSupport 893@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Your site is now verified and showing traffic. Are you still having the issue? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-stats-not-working#post-882 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:09:16 +0000 toodlepip 882@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hiya...</p> <p>Wonder if anyone can help, I've been scratching my head about this one for a while. I'm using the Sharethis widget with the main code in the &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; tags and then calling a button for each blog post on a page with multiple posts. The same method is used when there's only one post on a page, too.</p> <p>However, no reporting information seems to be making it through to Sharethis. The buttons seem to be working fine, so I'm a little stumped. Any ideas why this might happen?</p> <p>The website URL is: <a href="http://www.toodlepip.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.toodlepip.co.uk</a></p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p>Toodle pip</p> <p>Sam </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/stapi-beginner-creating-a-custom-icon#post-547 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:24:51 +0000 dbarron 547@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Thank you so much for your help and response. That makes perfect sense and I am good with that. I will see if I have other options in sharethis extensions for joomla. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/stapi-beginner-creating-a-custom-icon#post-538 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:21:23 +0000 ShareThisSupport 538@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>The problem you're experiencing is due to declaring multiple objects with the same name but different descriptions on the page. This is going to cause errors in the .getElementById function. Each object must have a different name.</p> <p>I'm afraid that with our current API, this is the only way to having multiple custom ShareThis buttons on a page. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/stapi-beginner-creating-a-custom-icon#post-535 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:22:49 +0000 dbarron 535@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Sorry for the slow reply. I have figured out some things in the meantime and have gotten a bit farther. It had to do with my ' and ". When I corrected the ' and " in the code the custom button was able to render. However, since I am farther than I was before another problem came to the surface. I am using joomla and a plug-in that uses tags that you can insert to dynamically call functions such as your title, url, and description. The code for example looks like this.</p> <p>[code]<br /> &lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;<br /> //Create your sharelet with desired properties and set button element to false<br /> var object = SHARETHIS.addEntry({<br /> title:'***title***',<br /> url:'***url***',<br /> summary: '***description***'},<br /> {button:false});<br /> //Output your customized button<br /> document.write('&lt;span id="share"&gt;<a href="void(0);">&lt;img src="/images/M_images/share-icon-16x16.png" /&gt;</a>&lt;/span&gt;');<br /> //Tie customized button to ShareThis button functionality.<br /> var element = document.getElementById("share");<br /> object.attachButton(element);<br /> &lt;/script&gt;<br /> [/code]</p> <p>On a blog layout with multiple sharethis icons, only the first sharethis icon will work, the others on the page will not. When the first sharethis window opens and you click on google for example, it will use a title not even related to the article you are trying to save. However, if you go to a page with just that one article and only one sharethis button, everything works like a charm. So the problem is when you have more than one sharethis button on the page. </p> <p>I read this forum posting on multiple sharethis icons. </p> <p><a href="http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/multiple-share-this-on-one-page?replies=6" rel="nofollow">http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/multiple-share-this-on-one-page?replies=6</a></p> <p>I am not able to create a new object for each button. The plug-in I am using only allows you to enter the code once and the ***url***, etc customize it according to the content it is attached to. Are there any other solutions to having more than one sharethis icon on one page than having to create a new object for each button. I hope I am making sense. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/stapi-beginner-creating-a-custom-icon#post-500 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:27:17 +0000 ShareThisSupport 500@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hello, </p> <p>The idea behind creating your own ShareThis object is to instantiate an object of the SHARETHIS.addEntry and bind that object to your own custom HTML button with JavaScript.</p> <p>I'd be happy to troubleshoot your code if you post in here, or mail it to <a href="mailto:feedback@sharethis.com">feedback@sharethis.com</a></p> <p>We'll get this solved! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/stapi-beginner-creating-a-custom-icon#post-485 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:18:07 +0000 dbarron 485@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I am trying to install Sharethis on my Joomla site and STAPI fits the bill, but I am having some problems. I will be using an extension to insert the Sharethis code and have been successful installing Sharethis by following the instructions on this page:</p> <p><a href="http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=stapi" rel="nofollow">http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=stapi</a></p> <p>1st I generated the widget code and placed in within the &lt;head&gt; tags.<br /> 2nd I copied the "share Object" code into the site were I wanted the "sharethis" button to be seen. </p> <p>Up to this point everything is working. I can see the button and the window pops up for me. However, I also want to create my own sharethis button. All I want is the green "sharethis" button with no text. So I follow the instructions on this page:</p> <p>(How to create your own custom button)<br /> <a href="http://support.sharethis.com/developers/developers-faq/stapi/62" rel="nofollow">http://support.sharethis.com/developers/developers-faq/stapi/62</a></p> <p>When I set the button to false and add the extra code, the sharethis icon disappears and my custom button does not show up. I was hoping someone could break down the code a bit more. Does anyone have clearer directions and explain what parts are variables (parts I adapt to my site) and what parts are fixed. </p> <p>Thank you for any help. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-373 Fri, 16 May 2008 10:50:49 +0000 mgrave 373@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Thank you Jay. Your example is very clear and works well most of the time, but for some reason, once in a while, the "ShareThis" button still appear at the page bottom, even with your above URL. See screen capture at:<br /> <a href="http://www.shortreckonings.com/tmp/deferred-sharethis.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.shortreckonings.com/tmp/deferred-sharethis.png</a></p> <p>It looks like a cache issue: You may be serving the sharethis JS code from a load balancing system or via a proxy and is it possible that the old version still exists somewhere?</p> <p>The problem appears randomly. Of course I have done shift+ctrl+reloads, have closed my browser. This was observed over a period of 1 week. I would say it works fine 90% of the time.</p> <p>To exclude a browser issue on my end, I did a test from both FF and IE, as well as from other computers that did never load the above URL before, and was still able to observe the problem (randomly).</p> <p>Please advise. I don't feed confident to use <code>button=false</code> in production at this point.</p> <p>Also: What does the <code>bind:false</code> parameter does in <code>addEntry()</code>?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-349 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:03:58 +0000 jayridge 349@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi Mikael. The button=false param was not being passed correctly from the query string to the script. This bug has been corrected in the latest release.</p> <p>Here is a boring but functional example:<br /> <a href="http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html" rel="nofollow">http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html</a></p> <p>cheers,<br /> Jay </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/two-buttons-with-different-selections-of-tabs#post-345 Mon, 05 May 2008 15:57:48 +0000 ShareThisSupport 345@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I'm afraid that this is not possible with our current version of the ShareThis widget. Thank you for your valuable feedback and we will consider this with future revisions. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/two-buttons-with-different-selections-of-tabs#post-343 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:42:54 +0000 mgrave 343@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Using the STAPI (because I need to set the URL and other content elements), I want to achieve the following:</p> <p>* One Share This link would open a panel with just the "Social" tab;<br /> * A second Share This link would open a panel with just the "Send/Email" tab;<br /> * I would like to only load once the remove Javascript code to preserve bandwidth and loading time.</p> <p>Is this possible? I have noticed that the tab configuration is done via the widget javascript code. Is it possible to hide a tab when calling the <code>SHARETHIS.addEntry()</code> or when manipulating the object <code>addEntry()</code> returns (before I call <code>attachButton()</code>)?</p> <p>Thanks for you help!</p> <p>--Mikael </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-342 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:37:17 +0000 mgrave 342@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Our Web site programming guidelines do not allow to load Javascript libraries in the <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code> section. Our guidelines, for page loading optimization and user comfort purposes, ask to load them immediately before the closing <code>&lt;/body&gt;</code> tag. Then we use an "onload" handler to run any Javascript code that must be done once the page is loaded.</p> <p>I have tried this with the ShareThis API but for some reason, when the ShareThis widget javascript code is placed outside <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code>, a button is always rendered, even without creating a Shared Object. The widget code seems smart and detect whether it in <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code> and does not render any button in this case...</p> <p>Is there a parameter I can pass in the widget javascript code so that no button is rendered, even if the code is outside <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code>?</p> <p>Example of what I'd like to do:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;script&gt; function onload() { var obj = SHARETHIS.addEntry( ... ); var el = document.getElementById( &quot;mydiv&quot; ); obj.addButton( el ); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;body onload=&quot;onload&quot;&gt; ... &lt;div id=&quot;mydiv&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:void(0)&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; ... &lt;script src=&quot;http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail(...snip...)&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre> <p>As is, it does not work: a button is rendered at the end of my body.</p> <p>Thanks for you help. ShareThis is a fantastic widget!</p> <p>--Mikael </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/adding-share-this-to-custom-blogger-template-1#post-272 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:09:38 +0000 ShareThisSupport 272@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Brad, </p> <p>Glad you got it to work! The "icon" property is designed to specify the thumbnail sent wiht your shared object. The code you copied is example code, effectively you're setting it to a non-existent path. The "summary" is also an example summary. You can make it read whatever you wish. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/adding-share-this-to-custom-blogger-template-1#post-269 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:51:54 +0000 Known 269@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Got it, the code block finally looked lie this. </p> <p>&lt;$BlogItemControl$&gt;<br /> I pasted the code straight after this</p> <p>&#38;nbsp&#38;nbsp &lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;<br /> SHARETHIS.addEntry({<br /> title:'&lt;$BlogItemTitle$&gt;',<br /> summary:'Sharing is good for the soul.',<br /> url:'&lt;$BlogItemPermalinkURL$&gt;',<br /> icon:'http://path.to/icon'<br /> }, {button:true} );<br /> &lt;/script&gt; </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/adding-share-this-to-custom-blogger-template-1#post-268 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:19:58 +0000 Known 268@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi, I am trying to incorporate Share This into a custom Blogger template using the STAPI.</p> <p>I am not sure what to put in the Object properties, this is what I have which doesn't work</p> <p>&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;<br /> SHARETHIS.addEntry({<br /> title:'&lt;$BlogItemTitle$&gt;',<br /> summary:'Sharing is good for the soul.',<br /> url:'&lt;$BlogItemUrl$&gt;',<br /> content:'&lt;$BlogItemBody$&gt;',<br /> icon: 'http://path.to/icon'<br /> }, {button:true} );<br /> &lt;/script&gt;</p> <p><a href="http://blog.known.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://blog.known.com.au</a></p> <p>Any help would be awesome.</p> <p>Brad </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/custom-sharethis-button-suddenly-stops-working#post-101 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:23:04 +0000 peter123 101@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>never mind. Operator error on my part. It works. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/custom-sharethis-button-suddenly-stops-working#post-99 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:40:54 +0000 peter123 99@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>For some reason, I couldn't get this to work. Can somebody verify that it's working? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/custom-sharethis-button-suddenly-stops-working#post-26 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:43:36 +0000 dwong2114 26@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Now it is fixed. Many Many Thanks! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/custom-sharethis-button-suddenly-stops-working#post-25 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:43:12 +0000 ShareThisSupport 25@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>This was an issue with our API, but should be resolved now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if this issue was solved, and if you need any additional help. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/custom-sharethis-button-suddenly-stops-working#post-15 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:30:50 +0000 dwong2114 15@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I have been used the STAPI and created the custom Sharethis button by following the<br /> sample code in the developer support page here - <a href="http://support.sharethis.com/developers/developers-faq/stapi/62" rel="nofollow">http://support.sharethis.com/developers/developers-faq/stapi/62</a> . It was working fine until couple days ago. The set button element to false is not working anymore. The standard ShareThis button keeps loading into the page. Don't know if it is something to do with the 2.1 upgrade? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/what-kind-of-configuration-options-can-i-choose-from#post-10 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:34:35 +0000 ShareThisSupport 10@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>There's quite a list for what's included in our ShareThis API (STAPI) and much more to come. The current list includes share object property definitions to customize the object that you want your users to share as well as API options to customize the ShareThis experience.</p> <p>To get started with our STAPI, check out <a href="http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=stapi" rel="nofollow">http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=stapi</a> and <a href="http://support.sharethis.com/developers" rel="nofollow">http://support.sharethis.com/developers</a> </p>