URL Posted On Facebook Not Being Interpreted Correctly

[BitGamey]

Hi, firstly let me say that I love the functionality of Pabbly Connect! I have it working now where it detects a change in a Google Sheet and makes a post to Facebook.

All the data for the post is in one cell which includes a URL.

The issue I have is that when the Facebook group post is made, while the URL IS hyperlinked, it does not display the image as if I made the post manually.

The initial Pabbly post looks like this:

As soon as I edit the post, it looks correct like this:

Then without making any changes and just clicking [Save], the post shows as I wanted it to:

Is there a way to have it post correctly?
Do I need to look into splitting the URL into a separate column and then would it work?

Any advice would be appreciated thanks.

 

[ArshilAhmad]

Hi @BitGamey,

Please try mapping the link to its dedicated field and see if this gives you the desired result.

 

[BitGamey]

Thanks for the suggestion but since it only lets me map to all of the data, it gave an error. I guess it was trying to hyperlink the whole cell.

 

[ArshilAhmad]

I have added a Text Formatter to your workflow to divide the text and URL into different parts. Please note that the posts you are trying to make should always come in this format: **Description** <URL>, so that the Text Formatter could work properly. If not, then you will encounter an error.

 

[BitGamey]

That worked perfectly - thank you so much!