Hello,

Where is the option to set a site-wide account that everyone would be able to post to?

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greggles
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Title: how to set site-wide account? » provide a site-wide account to post content to a single twitter account
Category: support » feature

I believe this should be a feature request.

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Actually, seems like a duplicate of #369930: Ability to set multiple global Twitter accounts.

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saepl commented

The information page at http://www.drupal.org/project/twitter states: # Post to their own Twitter account or a site-wide Twitter account whenever they create new content. So therefore I figured it was built in functionality.

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Shai commented

It is there: it is at: admin/settings/twitter

One problem is that the permissions are not fine grained. Anyone who as access to any content-type that is twitter-enabled will have access to post to that group account.

Here is the help-text fromt he module:
"If you wish to provide a global Twitter account, then posts for enabled node types can optionally be posted to a site-wide global Twitter account."

Shai

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Either I am as blind as a bat or it's not there...attached is a screen shot.

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Shai commented

Saepl,

I think your vision is excellent! Your patience is even better!

I had totally forgotten that I applied a patch to get that functionality:

http://drupal.org/node/369930#comment-1350970

Let us know if it works for you.

Shai

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saepl commented

Ok, I applied the patch. I have a shared host so they wouldn't let me patch the files on the server so I downloaded a copy of the drupal install and used the patch command on my mac. Worked great. Thanks for the help.

P.S. I still think the wording on the twitter project page should be changed to reflect that this doesn't work "out of the box"

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asb commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-3.x-dev
Category: feature » bug
Priority: Normal » Major
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

@saepl (#7):

I still think the wording on the twitter project page should be changed to reflect that this doesn't work "out of the box"

The project page clearly states:

Out of the box, it allow users to: [...]
Post to [...] a site-wide Twitter account whenever they create new content.

So if this functionality isn't working out of the box, this obviously is a (major) bug. Changing version and status accordingly.

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joachim commented

Subscribe.

IIRC this is in (some) 2.x releases, but I don't see it in 3.x either.

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snufkin commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

You can do this by creating a twitter account at any user, them marking it as 'global' on that page. Mind that your user will need the set twitter account to global permission to do that.

After this you just have to grant your regular users the permission to use the global account and the announcement form will show up.