Creating a link to connect to LinkedIn

Start a sandbox enviornment.

Navigate to the Application Composer.

Select the “Common” Application and click on the “Contact”. Click on the Actions and links” link in the Regional Area

Click “Create” icon

For Display Labe enter “LinkedIn Search” then click any filed “Name” filed automatically populated

Select the radio button “Link” then click “Fields” tab.

We are defining a link that searches LinkedIn for the contact name provided.

Enter below statement click “Validate” button then “Save”

def myURL1 = PersonFirstName

def myURL2 = PersonLastName

def myfinalURL = "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir" + myURL1 + "/" + myURL2

PersonFirstNamereturn(myfinalURL)

Back to the Contact Object. Click Pages and then the Simplified Pages tab.

Click “Default Layout” under “Details Page Layouts” and click “Edit” Option

Click “Edit” button under the Summary sub tab

Move newly created “LinkedIn Search – link” to the Selected Fields list.

Note: Remove any other LinkedIn fields if they exist.

Clik “Save and Close”

Click “Done”

Verify LinkedIn Search is available on the profile page.

Sign in to the Simplified UI pages and Nagivate to Contacts and search and Contact.

Click “Edit”

The LinkedIn Search (Link) is available on the profile page.

The LinkedIn Search page opens in a new window.

If you want to store the exact LinkedIn profile for the contact, one option is to create a custom field in the Edit Contact.Profile page and give a link option to open the full profile in a new web page.

Try the following exercise to achieve this.

From the Application Composer, Nagivate to the “Common” application and select the “Contact” object.

Select “Fields” and click “Create”

Create a custom field of type “Text” and label it “LinkedIn Text”

Click “Save and Close”

Now click “Pages” then “Simplified Pages” tab. Select “Default Layout” in the Details Pages Layouts Section and click on “Edit”

Click “Edit” button in Summary

Add the created field to the selected fields list. Click “Save and Close”

Click “Actions and Links” and click “Create”

Select the “Link” radio button and label it LinkedIn Page

Enter the following in the URL definition text box.

def myfinalURL=LinkedInText_c

return (myfinalURL)

click “Save”

Add this link to the Default Layout under “Details Page Layouts” page of Simplified UI.

Move LinkedIn Page field under Selected Fields and click save and close

Navigate to Contact list in the Simplified UI open a contact and click the Edit button

And here you will find the LinkedIn Text box (to manually maintain the URL) and a link next to it to launch the URL in a new web page.

Click Exit Sandbox to exit the sandbox

Click Yes to confirm

Click Sign Out to sing out of the application, clearing the cache.

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