- Connects as
- Your Company Page. Posts go out under the Page's name, never from anyone's personal profile, and the card shows the Page's name.
- Who can connect it
- An admin of the Company Page, in LinkedIn's words a Super admin. LinkedIn lists them under the Page's Settings, Manage admins.
- Afterwards
- Approved LinkedIn items can be posted from the Calendar, now or on their day, with one picture or none. A post with more files than that is handed back to you to post by hand, never trimmed to fit.
Before you start
- Be signed in to linkedin.com, in this browser, as the Page's admin. If the browser is signed in as someone else, sign out of LinkedIn first: LinkedIn sends back whoever is signed in, without asking which account you meant.
- If that login administers more than one Page, make sure the brand's name in Figlix matches the Page's name. Figlix picks the Page named like the brand, loosely, so Rivera Florals finds Rivera Florals Pty Ltd.
Connect it
Open Connections
In Figlix, open Connections in the left menu, under Setup. Every channel has a card, and the card says what is true right now: Not connected means nothing is attached yet.
Click Connect on the card
If the card shows How to set this up instead of Connect, the platform has not been registered for your Figlix yet. That is done once by whoever runs your workspace, and the card tells them what is needed; nothing on the card will connect until then.
Allow it at the platform
Figlix sends you to the platform's own page, which asks whether to let Figlix act on the account. Sign in there if it asks, read what it lists, then choose Allow or Continue. Cancel brings you back with nothing changed.
LinkedIn shows the permissions above with an Allow button. If it shows nothing and brings you straight back, it reused the account already signed in and already allowed; that is fine when it is the right account, and the sign-out step above when it is not.
Back on Connections
The card now reads Connected with the account's name, and a green note at the top says so. There is nothing to paste and no key to copy.
Connections is at app.figlix.com/connections, once you are signed in.
What LinkedIn asks you to allow
- Sign in with LinkedIn, your name and picture: so Figlix can record who connected the Page.
- See the Pages you administer: so Figlix can find the brand's Page.
- Create posts on the Page's behalf: what posting from the Calendar is.
- See the Page's posts: so Figlix can confirm a post went out when LinkedIn does not say so at once.
- Nothing about posting as you. Figlix does not ask for it, so the connection cannot post on your own profile.
If Figlix says…
A connection that does not go through says why, in a red note at the top of Connections. These are the notes LinkedIn can lead to, word for word, and what each one means.
This LinkedIn login administers no Company Page. Sign out of LinkedIn in this browser, then Connect again as an admin of the Page — LinkedIn sends back whoever is signed in, without asking.
The LinkedIn account your browser is signed in as is not a Super admin of any Page. Most often it is the wrong account: a personal login, or a colleague's, that LinkedIn reused without showing a sign-in screen.
What to do: Sign out at linkedin.com, or open a private window, then click Connect again and sign in as the Page's admin. If you are sure you are the admin, check the role: a Content admin is not enough, LinkedIn's API answers only for Super admins.
This LinkedIn login administers … Pages (…) and none is named like …. Figlix picks the Page by the brand's name, so name the brand as its Page is named, then connect again.
The login administers several Pages, and none is named like this brand, so Figlix would have to guess which one to post to. It refuses rather than guess, and the sentence names the Pages it found.
What to do: In Settings, name the brand as its Page is named, then click Connect again.
Connected as a person. Figlix now posts to LinkedIn as the Company Page, which this grant cannot do — reconnect once to grant it.
This connection was made before Figlix posted as the Page, so LinkedIn allowed it only to post as the person. The card shows Fewer permissions until it is remade.
What to do: Click Disconnect, then Connect, signed in as the Page's admin.
And on any channel
This sign-in link has already been used or was never issued. Start again from Connections.
The link Figlix made for this connection was clicked twice, or belongs to an older attempt.
What to do: Click Connect on the card again; each click makes a fresh link.
This sign-in took too long and has expired. Start again from Connections.
A connection has ten minutes from the Connect click to come back. This one took longer, usually because the platform's sign-in was left open in a tab.
What to do: Click Connect again and go straight through.
This sign-in was started by a different account. Start again from Connections, signed in as yourself.
Someone else in your workspace clicked Connect, and the platform sent the result to your browser.
What to do: Start it yourself from Connections, or ask them to finish what they started.
The provider did not authorize Figlix: …
You chose Cancel at the platform, or the platform does not allow Figlix for your account. The rest of the sentence is the platform's own reason.
What to do: Read the platform's reason. If you cancelled, click Connect again when ready; if the platform refused, the reason says what it wants.
The provider sent the browser back without a code. Start again from Connections.
The platform came back without finishing its side, which happens when a tab is closed or a page is reloaded mid-way.
What to do: Click Connect again.
What the card can say later
- Reconnect needed
- The platform stopped accepting Figlix's access, usually because it ran out or a password changed. Click Reconnect and allow it again.
- Fewer permissions
- The connection works, but it was allowed less than Figlix now needs on this channel. The card says what is missing. Disconnect, then Connect, and allow everything the platform lists.
- Problem reported
- The platform answered with a complaint the last time Figlix used the connection. The message on the card is the platform's own. Click Retry. If it repeats, tell whoever runs your workspace what the card says.
How long the access lasts
LinkedIn's access lasts about sixty days. Figlix renews it by itself while the connection is in use, and the card's Check button proves it still works.
To disconnect
On the card, click Disconnect. Figlix deletes the access the platform gave it, immediately, and the card goes back to Not connected. Everything you have written stays, and you can connect again at any time.
Three things that are always true
- Connecting never publishes anything. Approval is one step and posting is another: a person posts an approved item from the Calendar, or you post it yourself.
- Figlix never sees or stores your password. The platform gives it a limited key, which is stored encrypted and deleted the moment you disconnect.
- Every connection, disconnection and check is on the record, with who did it and when.