I have a Facebook application that wants to publish document reads to a user's OpenGraph.
Since read is a reserved, built-in action, my objects have to have the type article. The publishing of reads to the user's graph works fine and the last read is also shown on the user's timeline.
Additionally, I have set up some aggregators that would show the last 5 reads, the most popular authors etc. The problem is that I can not find those aggregators anywhere in my timeline/profile or in the App section of my user.
Is it not possible to control/show the aggregators for built-in actions and objects?
I have a feeling it should be, since I can set them up and (for example) Spotifiy also uses the built-in music.song objects, as shown below - this is basically, what I also want.
All I am seeing on my app's timeline section, though, is this:
I believe you are not in control of when facebook displays your aggregations as you have defined them in your open graph settings, since facebook uses the so called 'GraphRank' to determine whether to show your aggregation or not. The calculation goes like this:
GraphRank = affinity * weight * interactions * time
affinity (score): this is the relationship between the viewing user and the creator of the action.
weight: if two users interact frequently with each other, the respective actions in the open graph are rated higher than for users who do not have the same interest and are not in close contact on Facebook.
interactions: how often does the user interact with the application and how do friends react to the activities in the social channels (if nobody clicks on the published actions it's bad for the GraphRank).
time: if an app is used irregularly or only once, actions will receive less attention in the long run and will be presented less prominently on the timeline.
See this article: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/12/27/edgerank-and-graph-rank-defined/
This is not the perfect answer to the actual question but I was able to solve the problem nevertheless. In case someone else is in the same spot, you might profit from my learnings:
The application I'm building wants to push read actions to a user's OpenGraph. My aggregation problem was that my reads from the built-in news.reads action did not get aggregated. To this day, I do not know why not.
Instead, I managed to create my own read action. It is not connected to the built-in one and exists in my own namespace.
This action can now be connected to my own objects as well and is not bound to the article object – as is the built-in one.
Having my own actions and objects, it was a breeze to follow the instructions for aggregations and create as many aggregations as I like. They also actually show up in my test users' profiles. Yeah.
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With v1 of the measurement protocol, you could use these parameters to add custom dimensions or change medium, source or refer for a page view:
https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-xxxxxxxx&cid=[custom-id]&t=pageview&dp=[Url of pageview]&dh=[hostname of pageview]&cm=[new-medium]&cs=[new-source]&dr=[new-referer]&cd1=[custom-dimension-1]&cd2=[custom-dimension-2]
How is it done in measurement protocol v2?
I couldn't find any documentation about the page-view-event in V2 (for example it's just not mentioned here
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/reference/events), even the event-builder (https://ga-dev-tools.web.app/ga4/event-builder/) doesn't support a simple page-view.
So, all I got so far is this:
$data = '
{ "client_id": "'.[custom-id].'",
"events": [
{
"name": "page_view",
"params": {
"page_location": "'.[Url of pageview].'"
}
}
]
}
';
So, what are possible parameters for a page-view-event?
Ok, a few things here right away that you should know if you're playing with MP:
Measurement protocol is a poor name. It implies there's more than one protocol for data gathering. There's none. There is just only one protocol for tracking.
MP2 still largely MP1. Google tries to pose GA4 as a new product, but it's just our old good GA UA with a simplified backend and overengineered front-end that tries to deliver the level of quality Site Catalyst/Omniture/Adobe Analytics have been delivering for a decade. MP is largely the same. dr, cm, cs and a lot of other fields are still there. cds aren't there anymore cuz they're replaced with eps and ups, but more about that a bit later.
GA4 uses this big marketing claim that the new analytics is so wonderfully event-based, unlike the old one. When I dug into why they keep claiming it everywhere, I realized that the only difference is that pageviews are now events. Not much difference really. But yes, a pageview is just an event named page_view. We'll talk about it a bit more later.
Custom dimensions are no more. Now they're called event properties and user properties. The same thing really, Google just tries to make it less obvious that there are no more session level custom dimensions. Or product-level CDs. Though the product level is seemingly on their roadmap.
Make sure you're using the correct measurement id. They made it a lot harder to find it in GA4. It's no longer just the property id visible in the property list, unfortunately.
GA's real-time reports don't include all dimensions, especially if those dimensions are involved in advanced metrics/dimensions calculations. Do not use real time reports for inspecting the content of your events. It's not meant for debugging. It's a vanity report. Still helpful to check the volume of events when you're sending a bunch and expect to see them in GA. Google even has a warning here:
Like the DebugView report, the Realtime report performs limited attribution analysis to ensure responsive reporting. We recommend that you refer to the Acquisition reports for the most accurate attribution information.
Finally, what I often do instead of reading the so-still-unfinished-and-not-really-helpful documentation on MP2, is either use a library like this.
Or, since 1 is the case, I would just implement a moniker tracking in my test GTM, then see what and how it sends to where in the Network debugger and simply reimplement it on my side exactly how GTM does it. No magic involved. Here is how my GTM tag would look like:
With a trigger on any click or any page load. After all is done, I publish the lib. Then I would inject this GTM's code in a local site, or in my test site, or however else you want to test it. And trigger the tag that you need to mimic with MP.
I use this wonderful extension to show all events that fire and their details right in my console.
Now this is how the above tag looks on my test site through the extension:
It's pretty useful.
How do I know that page_referrer is used as dr instead of ep in GTM? Here is the list of the fields that will never be seen as ep. But Google doesn't care enough to map them properly to what these fields are called in MP, so you either have to test, or know, or google it elsewhere.
Finally, here is how the network request looks like:
I published the tag to prod (I keep a test site in prod), so you can go and look at it. Or just find a site that uses GA4 and see its network requests. How does google know that this is a pageview? by the event name: en=page_view
Of course, you do the same with medium and source. Judging from the documentation I've linked to above, the medium and source look like campaign_source and campaign_medium in GTM. GTM maps them accordingly to cs and cm fields. And that's how you know these are the correct mp fields. Give GA time to process these and check on them in a few days.
Good, now this is applicable to the enhanced ecommerce hits too, it's just that they have more variables and data structures in them typically.
Finally, if you want to simulate batch events, you can just make a few tags fire in rapid succession and GTM will neatly pack them in one network request if they fit. You can then digest how the packing is done through the same methods as we do here and simulate.
I have to create script to create adsets and ads for a facebook campaign and I have to do it for a lot of items. For now, i can create every needed entity but there is a big problem, the rate limit. I reach it pretty quick (I can create like 15 items before getting a rate limit exception) and this is very limitating, creating eveything by hand is actually much faster... I want to apply to the next level of rate limitation but I can't. One of my coworker contacted someone from facebook and we were told we did not make any API call using my app ID. Since I am able to create a campaigns, adsets, ads... and we can see those in power editor I don't understand what is going on.
What my dashboard looks like
We will need to be able to create everything using the API really soon so, after some research, I try asking the question here. Did I miss something when creating my app ?
You probably want to go through the official request to promote your app from a Basic level to a Standard level. The level for your app determines how heavily it is rate limited. Details here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/access
It sounds as if you have not make your official request in app dashboard. It's possible we evaluated your number of API calls before you reached the threshold, or the data we are able to see on your API calls was from an earlier time period when you did not consistently reach the boundary.
You could also be hitting rate limits due to your error rates.
You can apply here, and if needed, reapply: https://www.facebook.com/business/standardadsapi?attachment_canonical_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstandardadsapi
I use a datasheet view of a query with aggregate sub queries attached as fields. Of course this is not editable and that is fine as its merely an overview listing of all the records along with some sum information from related tables. I have noticed that when a query is not editable the record selector lock information is not displayed. This made me wonder.
Is there is some event that can be captured to display in more or less real time when a record is locked or released by other users?
Alternatively is there any other way to display in my overview list or elsewhere what records are currently locked and if possible by what user?
Access 2010(x64)
For an updatable query, the locked status may be displayed on the left margin as you have noted. But that reflects record-locking by the query engine, not the same thing as whether a data result is updateable under normal circumstances.
For a read-only query, Access won't show a lock icon because in that context it isn't useful information (from most people's point of view).
You could use VBA to check the attribute of the query as a whole, and display a notification when the form is loaded. But that doesn't relate to the record-locking icon.
Is there is some event that can be captured to display in more or less real time when a record is locked or released by other users? -- I believe the simple answer is no.
Access 2007 saw the end of the JET Security model, so there is no way for you to manage user-level security in files created using 2007 or later.
The only alternative would be to use the Win API to register users by their NT ids, and to develop your own model which responded to activity. Clearly this would be no mean feat!
[Edit]
As for detecting record locks, it's possible you could implement this using an events handler class together with the ADO library:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ms678373%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty with Class Modules (something some pundits never got to grips with), then you can find a lead-in here.
I`d like to get all events (from facebook) that will happen at a specific place.
for example:
Me, and two others people creating events in different days at a place X.
I need to get all info about the events created by me and others for that place.
I sent an application for review at Facebook and received the following response
Status: Changes needed
Unfortunately, your article.read built-in submission does not meet the read requirements specified at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/builtin/#read. You must give users the ability to turn sharing off/on globally as well as remove an article that was shared within the app. In addition, read actions should only be generated when there is a strong indication that the user is actually reading the article. Please re-submit when these features have been added to your site. We appreciate your patience. Note: If you are creating an aggregation based on the object, you need to add 6-7 unique sample objects, and then create a corresponding sample action acting on each of these unique objects. (You can not just create 6-7 sample actions pointing to the same sample object). Submission Checklist: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/checklist
Please make changes below and resubmit for review.
But I don't know how to "give users the ability to turn sharing off/on globally".
The way I did it for my open graph action is to have a setting in a profile where they can toggle it off and on. If the toggle is off, I do an IF statement to not display the code that sends the Action. Then obviously I display that code if the toggle is set to on.
Without knowing more information on your system or all that, I can't really give more specifics on how to actually do it...