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Hopki
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The Social template.ggt can be found on this page: https://ggnome.com/wiki/Embedding_and_f ... Pano2VR%29

Now what you have to do is ignore this page and just download the embed_p2vr.ggt template. The reason for this is Facebook did allow you to display a Flash project in your timeline but now Flash is also on the way out so no point. But what the template does allow is for you to do is display a nice preview without having to add all the metadata required.

• Download and install template.

• Select template then click the edit template button to get to its settings.

• Deselect all check boxes apart from Fullscreen, make sure this one is selected.

• Under Social sites settings add your Host Name. You DO NOT add the http:// part. My host is http://hopkimedia.co.uk so I enter: hopki media.co.uk

• Page path, this is the name of your output folder, in my case the name of the folder which is in the root of my hosting is: HeybridgeBasin. If it was not in the root you would add the path to the folder.

• My preview image which is an 800 x 480px.jpg made from the Transformation output is in the same folder which I named preview.
So the path to this is: HeybridgeBasin/preview.jpg
Click ok and publish.

I mentioned hoops to jump through.

• Once the project is published and uploaded to your host provider set your facebook post to only you, this is for testing.

• Paste in the link to your facebook timeline which must include the index.html page. Example: http://hopkimedia.co.uk/HeybridgeBasin/index.html.

• If all displays ok then delete the post, set it to friends or whatever you set for then post as normal pasting in the URL.

• Don't see the preview image, go to this page: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Enter your link, in my example: http://hopkimedia.co.uk/HeybridgeBasin/index.html and click Debug.
Look for the Fetched URL.

• Make a new Only You post and use the fetched URL, you should now see the preview image.

• You can now delete, set your audience and post to your time line using the fetched URL.

I know this seems like a list of tasks, but takes about 30 seconds.
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