This is the first Facebook App i've created since the Timeline changes. Everything appears to be working the same, except for adding the app to my page's Timeline "Favorites"(?) (the boxes at the top near the About section). A large majority of the traffic to this app will come from visitors seeing the app tab on our page.
I'm attempting to add it using the following URL:
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=MYAPPID&redirect_uri=MYAPPURL
Then I select the page, and click "Add Page Tab".
This works fine - I can then swap it's position, view the app, edit settings, etc.
I set up the tab how I want it, and then log out and visit my Facebook Page directly to view the app tab as a visitor would. The app is no longer there. Log back in, everything is fine, log back out, it's gone. It appears that if you do not already Like the page, you cannot see the app. If you do like the page, you can see it. I'd like the app to be viewable by people who do not like the page as well, as the app has a fan gate of it's own.
I've disabled Sandbox mode as well so i'm not sure what's left to do.
Any help is appreciated.
You mentioned in the comments that the app is restricted to US users:
Because your app is restricted, it won't be displayed to logged-out browsers - this is expected because unless the user is logged-in, their location and age can't be determined in order to check the restrictions you've set
If you must have the app visible to logged-out users, remove the API-level restriction and use the details passed in the signed_request to show or hide the app's content
{edit} I missed the edit to your question {/edit} - it may also be that your existing signed_request processing code is failing for logged out users
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We have created a game which is accessible as an app but cannot get the game into a tab. During the submission stage it reads:
"Our review team will use this page to test your Page Tab app. Your Page Tab app must be installed on this page. Only pages that you admin will appear in the dropdown."
I am admin on 3 different pages, one was built specifically for testing the tab but it says there are no eligible pages and the option is ghosted out, even when a new page is created via this step.
Am i missing something or does anyone else know what i'm doing wrong?
I have facepile plugin on my webpage to show faces who are using the application.
The code snippet to show facepile is
<fb:facepile id="some_id" data-size="medium" data-width="396">
</fb:facepile>
Faces are showing normally.But when I use "Use facebook as:" option from the facebook homepage and selects any of my listed pages, facepile plugin on my webpage turns weird and shows a white box with a small thumbnail and an anchor(with text 'switch') on top of it On inspecting element with chrome's right click context menu I found it's an iframe with width being 396px and height being 1000px which displays in the middle of page hiding html form for normal login too.
If I revert to my profile using "Use facebook as:" option faces start showing normally.
Am I missing something or It's a bug?
I already checked a similar question but that is related to user being not logged.
Also I checked this bug listed
on facebook developer page but it seems to be resolved.
This is intended behaviour, although obviously the error message should be a bit better - the Facepile (and indeed, most of the Social Plugins) is designed to only work with User accounts. You can be fairly sure that 99.9% of people viewing the plugins will not be "Using Facebook as" a Page.
As Pages aren't designed to really interact with Facebook APIs (beyond the manage_pages functionality) then it is likely that these plugins won't be fixed to work for page accounts, but they'd be fixed to show a message informing anyone logged in as a Page to switch back to their user account.
You can find some related bug reports below, you should consider adding your voice to them in order to increase their priority:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/372904202778489
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/313164415437524
A user logs into my application in a tab in a browser
They get an email and click a link which opens a new tab in the same browser and logs them in under a different email say.
If they go back to the first tab they are no longer the same user and I want the page to automatically detect this and then reload or redirect them if they are unauthorized to view the page.
Anyway to do this?
Or, if you really want to know when user is switched the tab, try this library:
visibility.js
As stated by #Hck:
add javascript code to reload page periodically (for example once per 30 seconds) – Hck
JavaScript is pretty much the only way to make pages do stuff after they're loaded. Note that in pretty much any user authentication system, a given browser will only be logged in as one user at a time, so as soon as the second tab opens, that browser will be acting as the second user - they can still see the current content of the first tab, but links (for instance) will no longer work unless the second user was also authorized to use them.
There are some JQuery plugins that do this sort of thing, like PeriodicalUpdater, or you can write your own (an example).
So I've got my iPhone app running and what I want to achieve is when you navigate to a certain page, there is a button which, when clicked, will direct you to a certain page on Facebook. I have looked at the Facebook development pages (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/) for adding Facebook and it is currently opening up Facebook when clicked and logs in successfully, although not straight away like it should.
So my problems are as follows:
1) When the button is pressed, it should bring up a page asking for permission for my application to automatically log in but it doesn't,
2) When logged in, I want the app to take the user straight to a specific page on Facebook so they can look at it and like it but i have no idea how to do this,
3) I would also need a way of exiting the Facebook view, back to the previous view the user was on inside my application.
Thanks,
Matthew
I'd like to bring Safari to the front (switch to) but without using a URL, instead I'd like to see the "pages" view so the user can pick an already loaded page. Is this possible?
We open links in Safari and if the user returns to the app and selects the link again, I'd rather let them pick which Safari page to browse instead of opening a new one. I know that if the same URL is called it will open the correct page but the user may have navigated within the original site so the url no longer matches.
Thanks,
Rick
I don't think that its possible, i would use a UIWebView inside your app in order to get that experience you want, you can find the UIWebView apple docs here (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html) and also the equivalence of c# methods here (http://tirania.org/tmp/rosetta.html) hope this helps
Alex
Your app doesn’t get control of Safari’s UI. You might, however, be able to design your site so that it handles navigation via Javascript—AJAX and whatnot—so that the actual page URL doesn't change, and thus so that the page, re-opened from your app, brings up the existing Safari page. Of course that introduces further problems with your pages no longer being bookmarkable, but you might find that an acceptable tradeoff.