I've noticed that some Facebook apps, like BranchOut, have customized notifications messages. When an app request is sent and appears in the top left notification center the text on the notification is something they seem to control on their own, instead of the default "Name sent you a request".
From what I find the the documentation this isn't possible. Custom messages are only shown for users already using the app, otherwise you get Facebooks default invite message.
Does anyone know how they are doing this? Do they simply have a deal with Facebook, or are they sending something other than an App Request?
Just in case someone else finds this question, it appears you can no longer control this message. There are some stuff floating around on other questions but none of them work anymore.
According to the docs, only whitelisted apps are allowed to edit the app request message that shows in the notification itself.
You can send custom notifications with the Notifications API:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/concepts/notifications/
These can only be sent to users who already have the app installed.
If you wish to invite someone to the app then you must use apprequest which doesn't allow you to customise the message.
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I'm trying to send a invite to my friends who doesn't use my app in facebook, so, I used FB.apprequets function to do. My design is to show the recipient {my custom message}. But request that the recipient received is always "GAME NAME: FRIEND NAME sent you a request".
Is there ways to change that message?
Also in Facebook reference, they say "If a recipient didn't install the game, he will receive invite message like Anita invited you to play Friend Smash!". But it doesn't work.
A custom message is not shown in the notification jewel.
It will only show up if the user views their notifications under https://www.facebook.com/games/activity
This is by design, and nothing you can change.
Hey i was wondering if you got the invite to work? Because currently right now my game sends app requests, but only to people who have installed my game can see the app invite/request in the notifications panel. Other than that, they can't see the app request if they have never installed the game.
We've implemented the Facebook Comments box on our website. I'm set up as a moderator, which means I receive a Facebook notification anytime anyone posts a comment via the comments box.
Happy to say we receive much engagement on our sites, but unfortunately this means I receive a notification almost every other minute. Do we know if there's a way to turn this notification feature off? At least for myself and not other moderators? I'd really just like to be alerted of activity on my own personal Facebook profile, rather than my website
Thanks in advance!
There doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off (I've searched extensively). However, you can create a separate Facebook account – "Grace Moderator", or something like that – and set that as the moderator instead of your main account. Then you won't get the notifications in your main account.
I already read all what is needed about missing notifications on user-to-user app request, and it appears it could be :
because the app is not a canvas or the canvas url is not correct
because the app is in sand-box mode.
I developped my app in sand-box mode and tried some u2u requests between generated test users with JS SDK last weeks. Everything was fine, notifications did show up...
But starting today, there's no more notification in the page header notification list. To find the request, users apparently have to notice that the small count of the "applications" item in the left menu has changed, even for user-to-user requests.
I can't find this change in the 6th february changes, maybe I missed something. I read somewhere in old posts that the notification policy is determined by Facebook algorithms and that I can't be sure the request will appear in notifications.
But it's clearly written that user-to-user requests provoke notifications here :
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/concepts/requests/
Can someone explain me where this change comes from ?
Thanks in advance !
Pierre
Thank you Igy, I'm relieved that's not a design change but a bug (I copy once more the link to the bug as this is supposed to be an answer to my question :
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/532388000129311?browse=search_511bf995772fc8763161711
) !
I have a website where we use the request dialog to allow users to invite their friends to check us out. From the inviters side everything works as expected. The person being invited does get the notification, but it is immediately deleted. So they would see the red 1 over the globe for only a half a second, but it immediately dissapears and the message does not stay in their list of notifications. They do get the invite in the apps and games section. This used to work, but for some reason it has stopped. Is this possibly a config thing with the app settings within facebook? Any insight would be appreciated.
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A little more detail on this. I created this as a web app in facebook apps. It looks like it also needs to have the App on Facebook setting checked with values added for the canvas url. It works as expected now. Heres a link to what pointed me in the right direction
Notification for facebook app requests not showing up
I am having a strange problem while making app requests. I understand that when an app request is made through my app, it also puts a notification in the top saying so and so has sent a request from this app. Now, while I can successfully make the request, the bookmark count goes up but I do no get a notification at all. Is there something i could be missing? I'm following instructions from this blog post on Facebook developer site - http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/464/. I am new to Facebook development so if it's something simple, please point me in the right direction.
Thank You.
I've had issues with this in the past but it looks like Facebook have very recently acknowledged this and brought about correcting the issue.
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/540/
App to User Requests now display messages
Previously, when apps sent notifications to users (available by posting a request to the apprequests connection of the User Graph object, as documented in Social Channels), the bookmark counters were incremented, but the message included with the notification was not shown. As of this week, if you send an app to user notification, we will also display the notification message in the apps or games dashboards. This provides app developers a more effective way to communicate application-level updates to users. Note that the ticker count is now shown in bookmarks, hovercards and, for games, in the games ticker. As a result of this change, your users may see an increased number of notification messages from your application.