How Do I View or Reply to a Facebook Conversation or Comment in SoCast?

How Do I View or Reply to a Facebook Conversation or Comment in SoCast?

How Do I View or Reply to a Facebook Conversation or Comment in SoCast?

Who Is This Article For?

  • All users with a SoCast account (login and password)
  • All users with access to the SRM feature
  • All SoCast themes

Overview

This guide shows you how to view and reply to Facebook conversations or comments from within the SoCast platform.

Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Go to the Social tab in your SoCast dashboard.
  2. If you have not added a Facebook stream yet, add one first. For instructions, see: How Do I Configure a Social Stream? (New)
  3. To respond to a Facebook comment, click the Facebook comment icon. The stream will slide open and display the Conversation view for that comment.
  4. Clicking Comment or the number of Comments in the Facebook stream will also open the Conversation view for that comment.
  5. Clicking the number of Likes within the Facebook stream will open the Likes view.
  6. To return to the previous stream contents, click the Back arrow in the header of the stream view.

Notes

  1. Verified badges will display for verified Facebook accounts.
  2. Stream items with video are identified by a Play button and will show a thumbnail if available.
    1. Available thumbnails include: YouTube, Twitter Video, Twitter GIF, and Facebook GIF (thumbnails are not available for Vimeo, Facebook Video Upload, or Facebook Live Video).
    2. Embeddable videos such as YouTube will open in the Media Preview modal.
    3. Videos that cannot be embedded due to API restrictions will open in a new tab (Vimeo, Twitter Video, Twitter GIF, Facebook Video Upload, Facebook Live Video).
    4. Facebook GIFs are embeddable and play in-stream.
  3. Stream items with audio are identified by a Play button and will show a thumbnail if available.
    1. Embeddable audio (such as member comment audio and SoundCloud) opens in the Media Preview modal.
    2. Audio that cannot be embedded due to API restrictions will open in a new tab.

Facebook Streams: Conversation and Replies Example

Below are examples of the Facebook conversation and replies views in SoCast:

Facebook Conversation Example

Facebook Replies Example

If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact SoCast Support.