Is there a way to change the path to an application? - facebook

Question in title. When I created the application I left the default instead of a name and the application is now using the app. Id in the URL. Is there a way to change this ?

You should be able to go to your app settings dashboard and change the namespace of the app - this will also represent your app's new URL.

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For using custom domian to access the bluemix application directly

I want to use custom domain to access my bluemix application directly by registered own domain. So godaddy requires the name server of bluemix so how can i find it or can you know
the another way to access it directly by registered domain
Here is an alternate way by which you can route your app to your webpage :
1 : Below your app name you would see the "Routes" with your bluemix url. At the end you have the option to edit the routes. Click that.
2: A popup would appear with one option as "Manage Domains". Click that. Alternate you can also reach to that page by clicking "Manage organization".
3: On the landing page you have the option to add a new domain. Add your website name here.
4: Now again go to edit routes. And add new route. You would see your website's name appearing . Add a name to your app. suppose you gave "myapp" as the name and your webpage name is "mywebsite.com" then your app would be redirected to your subdomain named "myapp.mywebsite.com". On save you can see this new route appearing additional to your existing routes for your app.
This is the first part. Now go to your domain provider and add create new alis with the app name. "myapp.mywebsite.com" and pass the alis name as the actual route provided by bluemix to you. Once done your app would be visible at your website.
You could follow what suggested by #Manish but instead of creating an alias CNAME on your DNS configuration you could create an A record pointing one of the following IP
US-SOUTH: 75.126.81.68
EU-GB: 5.10.124.142
AU-SYD: 168.1.35.169
according to the region your application is running on.

How to set FacebookDisplayName?

I recently hit a problem while trying to integrate FaceBook in an iOS app.
Fortunately I found the answer here:
Facebook SDK: app not registered as a URL Scheme
This is where I have a question:
In the post mentioned above the answer gives the following as the second step:
Create a key called FacebookDisplayName with a string value, and add the Display Name you configured in the App Dashboard.
How do I write this Display Name in case it is changing according to the user Language Settings?
I tried ${DisplayName} or ${CFBundleDisplayName} but I have no confidence I am using the right syntax and name.
In the InfoPlist.strings you can add
FacebookDisplayName = "AppName";
for all the languages you have implemented. This way it will be consistent to the facebook configured details regardless of what your app is really called on the device.

Facebook Tabs - Difference between apps vs tabs

I have recently inherited the Admin/developer role for our page and I am new to Facebook Development. I am attempting to add a new tab to our page and the only option I am getting is to build an App but all of the App options I come across make it sound like it's trying to do more than what I want it to do.
What I want to do is produce a tab on the page. That will link to an app/canvas displaying an image that the user can click to go to our offer.
So far I've built a basic app with Display Name, namespace, Page Tab Name, Page Tab URL and a Tab image. but when I refresh my page I do not get a new tab and when I preview the app page it is not the format I am looking for.
I've tried going through the tutorials but since this is all new to me I ahve yet to make any sense as to what I'm looking for or missing. Could anyone let me know what app format I am looking for? Or am I in the wrong place entirely?
You need to explicitly add an app to a page. Not sure if you've tried it or not but navigate to:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&display=popup&next=YOUR_PAGE_TAB_URL
Replacing YOUR_APP_ID with your app id and YOUR_PAGE_TAB_URL with the url you set for you page tab.

old app params configuration in panel

Facebook is changing all the time. Some params that were in the configuration app panel (now developers.facebook.com/apps) are not there now, and they has been eliminated.
Is there any way to change the value of that params?
you can try to change that programmatically via the old rest api

Facebook: Run a page with multiple application tabs of one application

I wanted to know if I can run a facebook with multiple application tabs all from the same application. E.g. I have a tab welcome located under /welcome of my app as well as the tab contact located under /contact. In facebook application settings I can set the domain path http://example.com/ and the page tab location as http://example.com/welcome ... but I want to use more than one tab on a page with my application <-- is this possible or should I have to create for each application tab a new application?? :-|
Greetings
Denis
Unfortunately no. Currently you can only have one tab per app per Page. If you want to add multiple tabs to a single Page, you'll need to have a separate app for each one.
It is possible to serve different tab content to different Pages from one app by using the profile_id property of the signed_request parameter. Check out the other properties of the signed_request parameter for more ideas about ways you can customize Page tab content on the fly.