First off, kudos on this amazing module - I'm making good progress in creating a distributed site with (so far) three "facets" and it looks to be working nicely!

I'm at the point now where I need to add independent social media links - I'm assuming I'll need to create custom blocks for each domain separately with the appropriate links and icons. (Both Follow and Social Media seem to have only one group of settings.)

That's not the end of the world - but my question is this: It seems to me that posting to Facebook or Twitter independently from each site simply wouldn't be possible, insofar as it's really a single site. Am I correct here?

Any other guidance as to social media with DA would also be welcome. Thanks again for all the terrific work here!

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It depends on how you are doing to posting. If the configuration for FB etc. is a simple variable string, you can use hook_domain_batch() along with Domain Conf to register different FB vars for each site.

We do that all the time. Consider the unique FB and Twitter links on these two DA sites:

* http://environmentamerica.org/
* http://environmentarizona.org/

These are just custom variables we set and place using a single custom block. DA can dynamically load the proper variable configuration for you (again, using Domain Conf).

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bcobin commented

Thank you for the quick response! Unfortunately, I'm not a coder - it looks like one would create a custom module defining the additional fields, right?

Not the end of the world - I could easily create custom blocks for each instance with the appropriate links, but this looks like a most elegant solution, if I only knew what I was doing here!

BTW - the documentation for this module is some of the best I've ever seen. Kudos for all the hard work and thanks!

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Thanks.

You might also file a feature request with the modules you are using. Ask them to implement hook_domain_batch().

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bcobin commented

Issue filed - no response. :(

#9 at http://drupal.org/node/1245252

Getting close to launch and I'll otherwise need to create the blocks manually - blech!

Any further guidance most welcome; regardless, thanks for DA, which really amazes me more and more each day...