# Manual Share Button
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905
**Category:** Community Resources
**Tags:** actions
**Created:** [July 14, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905 "2024-07-14T22:01:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/1 "2024-07-14T22:01:53Z")
I’ve found that on Google Play the glide native share feature is unreliable (probably works 10% of the time). So I manually set up a share action that seems to work everywhere.
If anyone else has to overcome this issue, you can consider a manual method. It’s a bit tedious but better than a broken feature.
You’ll need 3 columns (or more if providing sharing options to multiple apps):
1. A deeplink column (if this is not prepopulated, you can use a custom action for your manual share and first set your deeplink column to “link to current screen”).
2. A message column (see below for format).
3. A template column with formatted URL for sharing to a specific app (see below).
Workflow: Button or action row \> show new screen \> button block containing desired share actions \> open link (pointed at template column URL)
Example of share message {message}:
```auto
Visit%20Page%20on%20My%20Glide%20App
```
Whatsapp Share URL
```auto
https://wa.me/?text={message}:%20{deeplink}
```
Line Share URL
```auto
https://line.me/R/msg/text/?{message}:%20{deeplink}
```
Facebook messenger Share URL
```auto
fb-messenger://share/?link={deeplink}
```
Twitter Share URL
```auto
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text={message}:%20{deeplink}
```
LinkedIn Share URL
```auto
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={deeplink}&title={message}
```
Telegram Share URL
```auto
https://telegram.me/share/url?url={deeplink}&text={message}
```
Email Share URL
```auto
mailto:?subject={message}&body={message2}:%20{deeplink}
```
Hope this helps someone.
If anyone has a simpler workaround, please share. 👍
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/2 "2024-07-30T23:20:44Z")
> [@Sekayi\_Liburd](#):
>
> `https://m.me/?link={deeplink}`
this doesn’t seem to work.
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/3 "2024-07-31T00:27:37Z")
i found that this worked instead:
fb-messenger://share/?link=[https://HelloWorld.com](https://HelloWorld.com)
Note: https is required.
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/4 "2024-07-31T01:45:33Z")
That’s interesting… it works for me.
Does it look like this after you apply the template?
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/5 "2024-07-31T01:47:02Z")
ok. I’ll keep this in mind for if the other stops working for me.
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 11:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/6 "2024-07-31T11:06:12Z")
In the first button (below), is using [m.me](http://m.me) link, it opens Messenger but no link appears.
In the second buton, it uses the method I discovered.
What could be wrong my first button?
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/7 "2024-07-31T11:37:46Z")
~~did you select the person to send it to and see if the link appears in the message?~~
Actually, you’re right. It opens the app but doesn’t copy the link. I’ll switch to your template link if that one does the full job. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/8 "2024-07-31T16:47:55Z")
Great, anyway thank for you the ideas.
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/9 "2024-07-31T21:01:23Z")
anytime! I haven’t tested the telegram template because I’m not on that platform. If you are, do let me know if it works as expected.
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/10 "2024-08-01T00:56:56Z")
Yes, telegram works. Line however, still testing.
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 7:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/11 "2024-08-01T07:20:56Z")
Ok, LINE works, but we came across another URL:
[https://social-plugins.line.me/lineit/share?url=www.google.com](https://social-plugins.line.me/lineit/share?url=www.google.com)
This URL, is under LINE New while your method is listed as LINE Old.
here’s my app to try: [https://testing-share.glide.page](https://testing-share.glide.page)
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/12 "2024-08-01T07:37:33Z")
great! Which Line method do you prefer?
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### Author:  [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/13 "2024-08-01T08:49:41Z")
Your method as it doesn’t involve an additional screen.
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### Author:  [@Sekayi\_Liburd](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sekayi_Liburd)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/manual-share-button/74905/14 "2024-08-01T08:57:19Z")
ok 👍