Social Sharing

RE: Social Sharing

ladas112 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 02:10:17 GMT

It also would be important to upgrade the "find friends" feature, because the browsing method is to limited....

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:25:07 GMT

I was having the same problem, but figured it out. Next to the greyed out 'share' button is a lock for privacy. Even if your privacy is all unlocked in the settings, you need to click on the lock and select 'everyone'. The lock with then appear 'unlocked' and you will be able to post.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:06:10 GMT

Thanks ! nice solution !

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:55:35 GMT

Not sure if this is still an on going problem. (only just bought a Garmin)

If you originally had privacy set to Private and then changed it to Everyone, I had to re-import my ride from my device. The share button was then not greyed out.

I then clicked on the lock icon to change settings for the ride.

When you click on share, it generates a new tab/window via a pop up. So make sure pop-up blocker isn't switched on.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Mon, 05 May 2014 02:18:11 GMT

After you change your privacy in general, it looks like the activity can still have the privacy memory from your previous settings. If you look at your activity details, to the left of the greyed out "Share" button, you can see an icon with a lock. Change that lock to allow everyone and then you'll be able to share that activity.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:41:06 GMT

spot on

Ok finally got it. On each of the previous activities, there's a lock icon next to the edit details icon. You have to unlock this one (if it is in the lock mode) to enable the Share icon to be active.

Thanks this did the trick, easy when you know how...

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:35:58 GMT

The Privacy Setting on the "settings" screen controls the default which is applied when an activity is uploaded.

The privacy setting of an individual activity is indicated by a padlock icon following the activities title on the activity display screen. You can click on the padlock icon to toggle it between locked and unlocked (or private and public).

I sent a lot of time searching the way to share GC on FC, but this was the best solution of all.
Brilliant! That's it! Thank you GERRYCAN!
The only remaining problem is that a map of my route does not appear on the Facebook timeline in order to be more nice and complete and my friends can see it. Now they can only see the blue triangle and the link of my route in garmin-connect.com.

I know there is Mymotion and Endomondo but is it true that they can track you anywhere you are? I cannot accept that some people may be able to know exactly where I am anytime they want. Why does not Garmin do something for its customers/fans?
I would like your opinions on this.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:31:42 GMT

I'm having problems too, security is set to allow sharing, and the share button is not grayed out, but clicking it does nothing :confused: what am I missing. I had no problems when I ran last week.

did you get a fix for your Facebook sharing problem, I am having same problem and cannot resolve it. I use Firefox as my web browser. Any advice appreciated Thanks

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:24:30 GMT

Garmin Social now support both Facebook and Twitter

Hi,

The Garmin Social Service now support automatic posting of new Garmin Connect activities to both Facebook and Twitter. You specify the format of your message once (including details you want to include) and Garmin Social will publish all activities uploaded to Garmin Connect automatically.

Check it out at http://garminsocial.com

Gero

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:40:33 GMT

Automatically post to Twitter

Hi,

If you want to automatically publish your Garmin Connect activities to Twitter, check out http://garminsocial.com

It monitors the activities you uploaded and publishes a tweet to your Twitter stream once a new activities is added. You can customize the format of the tweets.

Regards,
Gero

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:24:27 GMT

I've given up in IE its crap, the only way i can share is by using Safari as my browser which works no probs

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:59:44 GMT

Ok finally got it. On each of the previous activities, there's a lock icon next to the edit details icon. You have to unlock this one (if it is in the lock mode) to enable the Share icon to be active.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:36:28 GMT

The Privacy Setting on the "settings" screen controls the default which is applied when an activity is uploaded.

The privacy setting of an individual activity is indicated by a padlock icon following the activities title on the activity display screen. You can click on the padlock icon to toggle it between locked and unlocked (or private and public).

I did exactly this. Clicked to unlock the padlock. But unfortunately the activities that were done b4 this change in setting could not be shared -- the share icon remains greyed out. Have yet to test out if it is workable on new activities.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:22:36 GMT

I can not get it to work either. Maybe this might be the catch. Under privacy settings it states "allow sharing of my"New" activity uploads."
Maybe old activities can not be shared. Sounds like a glitch that needs to be attended too.

The Privacy Setting on the "settings" screen controls the default which is applied when an activity is uploaded.

The privacy setting of an individual activity is indicated by a padlock icon following the activities title on the activity display screen. You can click on the padlock icon to toggle it between locked and unlocked (or private and public).

RE: Social Sharing

KDRunner181 — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:35:28 GMT

privacy settings

I can not get it to work either. Maybe this might be the catch. Under privacy settings it states "allow sharing of my"New" activity uploads."
Maybe old activities can not be shared. Sounds like a glitch that needs to be attended too.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:43:49 GMT

I got the "share" function to work correctly in IE8 by turning on Compatibillity View under IE8 Tools

Solved my problem too! Thanks!

RE: Social Sharing

seilogramp — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:23:19 GMT

Yesterday I got my 405 as a birthday gift. Today I did a first small test walk, everything worked well, but like mentioned above, I can't seem to figure how to share it onto my facebookaccount. When I click the 'share' button nothing happens. My privacy details seems to be okay, but nothing happens.

I hope someone can help me out...

As mentioned earlier in this thread:

Go to Internet Explorer tools..click compatibility view...then it gives you a choice to add Garmin to Comp. view check it...prob solved for me!
Good luck...what a pain!:D:D

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:37:45 GMT

Yesterday I got my 405 as a birthday gift. Today I did a first small test walk, everything worked well, but like mentioned above, I can't seem to figure how to share it onto my facebookaccount. When I click the 'share' button nothing happens. My privacy details seems to be okay, but nothing happens.

I hope someone can help me out...

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:59:42 GMT

Exact same problem

Have you ever figured this out? I have the exact same problem. Click on Share and nothing happens ever........

so maybee i am slow, but in garmin connect under the activity detail, i cant figure out how to share my activity with facebook. i see where it sais share, and my privacy is open, but when i click on share it does nothing.

please help.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:54:37 GMT

got it. thank you!

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:16:40 GMT

Try the MyMotionbased application within Facebook, just google MyMotionbased Facebook and you'll find it. Worked great for me.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:12:45 GMT

I'm having problems too, security is set to allow sharing, and the share button is not grayed out, but clicking it does nothing :confused: what am I missing. I had no problems when I ran last week.

some problem for me. share button's black (active) but nothing happens when i click it. anyone an idea?

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:10:25 GMT

New Features

Not sure if most of you are familiar with "Endomondo.com" but I think it has everything that garmin connect doesn't. You can compete in challenges, give peptalks to someone while they are training, create teams, invite friends, and much more. I have found it useful to use both sites. They allow you to track more exercises also. They also import from your Garmin device and will auto post your workouts to Facebook.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:48:57 GMT

One more thing to look for when the Share button is inactive is to make sure the activity is ublocked first. I change my privacy setting to make it public but it will not automatically unlock the previous activities. You have to go to each previous activity an unlock it.

RE: Social Sharing

Former Member — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:21:11 GMT

Facebook share fix!

Go to Internet Explorer tools..click compatibility view...then it gives you a choice to add Garmin to Comp. view check it...prob solved for me!
Good luck...what a pain!:D:D