My friend recently passed away and me and another friend was asked to estimate how many people would come to the funeral. I did this by creating an event, inviting those we thought would want to come. On the event-page people started sharing their memories through text and pictures. This was nice for everyone involved, but the question now is there any way to export these posts? It's would be sad to just see them fade with the event.
As far as I can see there's no way to share the posts to another group, nor convert to event to a group.
If anyone could suggest another way to this, either through code or a Facebook functionality I would be grateful.
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As Manuel once said, "I know nooothing" about facebook development, I have briefly watched a video about it.
Rather I have a specific problem with a known/by design limitation in fb. I have a fb-group with more than 499 members and I want that everyone in that group should be able to create events so that all group members gets an invitation
Any suggestion on how to solve this?
My first thought was have a separate db/list and programmatically send an invitation to all 500+ members. Is this possible?
Better yet, maybe there already exists such an app/whatever?
we are creating a website and one of the things that we would like to do is to for the users (who are logged in to facebook) to be able to write to their timeline. Kinda like have an option (this is an example)
I would like to write this to my timeline about this political view (and then attach to their post the initial political view that they had). So if user wishes to share his responses to facebook. it would appear as this:
(this is an example)
when asked "what you think about GW Bush"
Bob said: GW sucks.
The question may and will differ, responses may be random and unpredictable.
So....how easy/difficult is it to write this app. I thought initially there is a plug in, but it seems like i need to create an app. I tried to create it, but it wants me to submit minimum of 4 screenshots. Screenshots of what? Am I looking in completely the wrong place? I have never created app for facebook, is this worth the effort or should I just hire some facebook developer, because for a person who knows how to do it and who has done it before its a two hour project?
Thank you
Preface
I'm aware a similar question has been asked before, but I believe my request is slightly different so I'm going to go for it anyway.
Existing Questions/Findings
I have read the following articles on SO already:
Unfriending someone through the Facebook API?
Any way to unfriend or delete a friend using Facebook's PHP SDK or API?
Previous queries have focussed mainly on silent/programatic un-friending of a user. I don't necessarily need it to be silent and would be quite happy to use a prompted dialogue box.
Is there anything even close to this, or some hack around I could use?
In one of the articles above, an app is mentioned Burger King 'Whopper Sacrifice' which did unfriend I believe. The reason for it being shut down appears to be the privacy invasion/publicising of the un-friending (which seems a bit harsh!) rather than the un-friending itself.
Example idea/Summary
I am looking for some way to simply (either using or not using a prompt) help the user unfriend someone.
As an example, do you think it would be possible to use some kind of call to an iframe to bring up the dialogue?
No, there's no API or Dialog for this functionality. Users can use Facebook's own interface to remove friends but not via 3rd party apps.
Side note, the user can unfriend someone from that person's timeline, if you want one of your users to unfriend someone for some reason, just link them to that timeline and give them the 'unfriend' instructions
There is only way to add user as friend (Friends Dialog) but not terminate friendship, there is no such functionality in API or SDK-s Facebook provide.
this seems like a fairly simple question, but I just can't figure it out. I recently developed a facebook game. Now when somebody is playing that game the the message everybody loves is appearing in his stream:
Some guy is playing the most awesome game ever.
And after that, the is a description, which is the root of my problem. I'd like to change this description, which at the moment is showing ...
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Does anybody know where I can change this text? It would also be helpful if somebody could tell me what the term for that text is, so I could do the research on my own.
//Edit: Ok, the term for the particular FB post is social discovery or usage stories, which unfortunately didn't help me find out how I can change the description of that post. That would be the remaining question.
first time Facebook developer so was hoping for some guidance. Been given a very brief spec:
Requirement is to run it where fans have to give email (so that we can
contact winners) with opt in for newsletter sign up and also must FB
like VF to be entered into prize draw. There will be options to choose
from. They choose one and can't vote more than once.
So I'm thinking about a Facebook application that sits as a tab on the facebook page. If the user hasn't "Liked" the page, they'll be encouraged to "Like" the page in order to proceed.
If it's liked, they'll have an option to opt into our newsletter. They will also be allowed to answer one question with one answer. When they submit it, they will then be entered into a competition.
If they pick the "right" option, we will send them an email telling them so.
Right - does this sound fairly straightforward? Are there any guides, examples or tutorials that could help? Am I going about it in the right way?
Many thanks in advance,
JJ
That sounds very straightforward and you are going about it in the right way.
The best tutorials and examples can probably be found in the Facebook Developers documentation and in the example files within the PHP SDK (http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/)
To find out if the current viewing user has liked the page or not check out the signed request that Facebook passes to your app tab. It contains this and a lot more useful information http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/
What you have is pretty much how the majority of companies are pushing forward with Facebook. They are driving up the Like count by forcing users to Like the page before getting to their goodies. There are lots of examples on the internet as to how to create a page which checks if the user likes the page. As you've not stated what programming language you are going to be tackling this in, it is going to be hard to point you in the right direction.