Facebook Post is a Step (action) in Social › Facebook. Publishes a text post, link post, or photo to a Facebook Page via Graph API.
Facebook Post is a Step (action) in Social › Facebook. Publishes a text post, link post, or photo to a Facebook Page via Graph API.
When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Facebook Post against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on General and Design. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.
Facebook Post is a action step in the Social › Facebook group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.
Typical reasons teams add Facebook Post to a flow:
Common patterns on the canvas:
Page ID and Page access token in Node Configuration → Facebook. Message, Link, and/or Photo source on the Design tab.
Photo URLs use the /photos endpoint; binary/base64 uploads use multipart. Link posts require a public https URL.
The designer shows these tabs for this node:
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Info | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| General | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| AI | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| Design | Node-specific configuration fields |
These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
_nodeId | Node ID | node-id | No | — | — |
_payloadFields | Available Fields | payload-panel | No | — | — |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
label | Label | text | No | — | Node label |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pageId | Page ID (optional) | payload-text | No | — | Uses Joomla Node Configuration → Facebook default Page ID if empty |
message | Message | textarea | No | — | Post text or {{node.caption}} |
link | Link (optional) | payload-text | No | — | https://example.com/article Public https URL for a link preview post. Ignored when Photo source is set. |
photoSource | Photo source (optional) | textarea | No | — | https://… or data:image/*;base64,… — publishes via /photos |
Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under Node Configuration, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.
After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{facebook_post.success}}.
| Field key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
success | boolean | Whether the operation completed successfully. |
postId | string | Text value from this node's output. |
message | string | Human-readable status, error, or result summary. |
Other steps in the same area of the palette:
facebook-delete-post) — Social › Facebookfacebook-get-post) — Social › Facebookfacebook-list-posts) — Social › Facebookfacebook-page-info) — Social › Facebook