Using social sharing – Adobe Digital Publishing Suite User Manual
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Using social sharing
When you create a custom multi-issue viewer app for the iPad or iPhone, you can enable Social Sharing. You or your customers can choose an
option in your viewer app to share the article through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email, or copy and paste. The message you share includes a
link to the article.
Anyone who clicks the article link on a computer can view the article contents in the Adobe Content Viewer for the Web (also called the "web
viewer") in a browser if you enable the "Content Viewer for Web" option. Anyone who taps the article link on an iPad can view a Mobile Safari
Web Viewer version of the article (also called the "article viewer"). Anyone who taps the article link on an iPhone can open or download the app
and view the article if you set up a rendition properly.
If the article in a retail folio is protected, a paywall appears in articles in both the web viewer on a computer and the article viewer for the iPad. A
paywall can also cover articles set to "Metered" if the user has reached the limit of viewing metered articles. For v29 and later apps, a paywall
does not appear over articles marked as Free or over any article in a folio published as Free.
For more detailed information about the social sharing workflow, see
Views of the shared articles on the web viewer are included in download fulfillment counts. For details, see Social media download counts.
Overview of steps to enable Social Sharing in your app
Follow these steps (in any order) to enable social sharing in your app.
1. While building your app in DPS App Builder, select "Enable Sharing" to turn on Social Sharing.
Enabling Social Sharing in an app
On iOS 7 devices, the Activity Sheet determines which sharing options are available in the menu of your app. Select the Enable Sharing
option. For iOS 6 devices, the social sharing menu is no longer available in any app built after February 11, 2014 due to new restrictions
related to the Advertising Identifier reference in the Facebook SDK. The options under "iOS 6 Specific Settings" are no longer relevant.
Note: In iOS 7, Apple currently does not display Facebook or Twitter in the sharing menu for non-Apple apps if the reader has not entered
Facebook or Twitter credentials in iOS settings. To help the reader understand how to enable Facebook or Twitter sharing, a DPS dialog will
display prompting the user to enter credentials. The reader can dismiss the dialog or choose “Remind Me” to see the dialog box again the
next time they choose to share.
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