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title: Settings - LinkedIn
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

On this tab, you can adjust settings related to [LinkedIn authentication](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/linkedin-authentication.md). This feature enables live site users to register and log on to your website using their LinkedIn logon credentials. 

> **Warning:** LinkedIn features require a **full trust** environment.

| General                        |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
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| API key                        | Enter the **Client ID** of your LinkedIn application. See [Registering your application to LinkedIn](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/linkedin-authentication/registering-your-application-to-linkedin.md).                                                                                 |
| Application secret             | Enter the **Client Secret** of your LinkedIn application.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Access token                   | Click the **Get** button to obtain a site-wide access token required to execute LinkedIn API calls that require authorization. The **API key** and **Application secret** fields must be filled in. After the token expires, it is renewed automatically.                                                                                  |
| Authentication                 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Enable LinkedIn authentication | Indicates if [LinkedIn authentication](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/linkedin-authentication.md) is enabled.                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Assign new users to roles      | New users registered via LinkedIn authentication will be assigned to these roles.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Required user data page        | URL of the page where the **LinkedIn required data** web part resides. If entered and a new LinkedIn user logs in to the site for the first time, their user account is not created automatically, but they are redirected to this page and required to enter some additional data (or merge with an existing account) using the web part. |
| URL shortening                 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| URL shortener                  | May be used to select a [URL shortening service](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/setting-up-url-shorteners.md) that will be shortening all links in LinkedIn posts.                                                                                                                                |

To obtain the required Client ID and Secret keys, register an account at <https://www.linkedin.com/> and create an application at <https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer>.

**Required fields:** The **Access token** field is used mainly for certain web parts (it is not required for LinkedIn authentication).