# LinkedIn Post

<!-- meta: type=linkedin-post; location=Social › LinkedIn; category=Step (action); platforms=Joomla and WordPress (where applicable) -->

## Overview

Publishes a text, link, or image post to a LinkedIn organization or personal profile.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes **LinkedIn 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.

## Why use this node

LinkedIn Post is a **action step** in the **Social › LinkedIn** 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 **LinkedIn Post** to a flow:

- Automate "LinkedIn Post" as part of a larger Joomla or WordPress workflow
- Replace manual linkedin work with a repeatable, logged flow step
- Chain with triggers, logic, and messaging nodes on the same canvas

## Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

1. **Trigger or Webhook** → upstream steps → **LinkedIn Post** → **Send Email** or CMS update
2. **Scheduled trigger** → **LinkedIn Post** → **Debug** (while testing) → production action

## How to set it up

Organization ID and access token in Node Configuration → LinkedIn. Text, Link, and/or Image source on the Design tab.

## Good to know

Uses the LinkedIn Posts API. Image posts upload via initializeUpload. Requires w_organization_social or w_member_social scope.

## Properties panel

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 |

### System (automatic — not edited by the user)

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 | — | — |

### User-configured — General tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `label` | Label | `text` | No | — | Node label |

### User-configured — Design tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `organizationId` | Organization ID (optional) | `payload-text` | No | — | Uses Joomla Node Configuration → LinkedIn default Organization ID if empty |
| `authorType` | Author type | `select` (`organization` \| `person`; default: `organization`) | No | — | — |
| `personId` | Person ID (when author type is person) | `payload-text` | No | — | LinkedIn member ID for urn:li:person:… |
| `text` | Text | `textarea` | No | — | Post text or {{node.caption}} |
| `link` | Link (optional) | `payload-text` | No | — | https://example.com/article Public https URL for an article/link post. Ignored when Image source is set. |
| `linkTitle` | Link title (optional) | `payload-text` | No | — | Article headline |
| `linkDescription` | Link description (optional) | `payload-text` | No | — | Short preview text |
| `imageSource` | Image source (optional) | `textarea` | No | — | https://… or data:image/*;base64,… Uploads via LinkedIn initializeUpload. Ignored when Link is set. |

### CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

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.

## Output payload fields

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as
`{{linkedin_post.success}}`.

| Field key | Type | Description |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| `success` | boolean | Whether the operation completed successfully. |
| `postId` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `text` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `message` | string | Human-readable status, error, or result summary. |

## Related nodes

Other steps in the same area of the palette:

- **LinkedIn Delete Post** (`linkedin-delete-post`) — Social › LinkedIn
- **LinkedIn Get Post** (`linkedin-get-post`) — Social › LinkedIn
- **LinkedIn List Posts** (`linkedin-list-posts`) — Social › LinkedIn
- **LinkedIn Organization Info** (`linkedin-organization-info`) — Social › LinkedIn