I've created an application that is used as a page tab. I need to add a share button, like this the share buttons on this page: https://www.facebook.com/PixarMonstersUniversity/app_411774402198665
Is this possible to share a page tab (app) and have it link back to the page tab in Facebook?
I'm really not sure how to go about this.
https://www.facebook.com/PixarMonstersUniversity/app_411774402198665
To create the share button of this app you just simple take the address of the tabbed app in your Facebook page and place this into the share button HTML.
An example of this is seen here:
<a name="fb_share" type="icon" share_url="YOUR_URL">
The above link will work to share the page's app. To share just the page remove the "/app_xx" and to share the app just place the app url.
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This all sounds confusing;
I have a Facebook Canvas App with the same name as the Fan Page. I would like to add an iFrame tab to the Fan Page to promote and link to the Canvas App. My question is do I have to create a new app for the iFrame tab, or do I open my app settings for the canvas app and add settings for a page tab as well in there. Facebook don;t seem to have much documentation and they are changing things for app profiles soon, so I want to make sure I keep my fans of the page.
Thanks in advance.
Basically it goes like this.
You have an iFrame app.
The iFrame app has a canvas which is where you load your html for your app from your webserver with whatever language you want (.NET, PHP etc)
Then you can add this iFrame app to your page.
When you go to http://apps.facebook.com/yourappname
You will be shown the app by itself. When you add it to your page and load it via the tab on the menu of your page it will show you the app within the space on your page (an iframe).
You can use code to detect whether you are on a page or not to display different things.
I've been trying to set up my Facebook Application Profile Page by adding an iFrame tab to it. Seeing as this is similar to the process of adding an iFrame tab to a Fan Page, I going through the same process, to no avail.
In order to add an iFrame tab to a Fan Page, one is required to create a Facebook iFrame Page Tab Application (process described here: http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/tutorial-add-an-iframe-application-to-your-facebook-fan-page-fall-2012/), and then browse to the newly created app's page, click the 'Add to My Page' link and select the page to which they want to add the iFrame Page Tab Application.
Now, if I want to do the same thing, but instead of adding the iFrame Page Tab Application to a Fan Page, add it to an Application Profile Page, then that's impossible because, apparently, Application Profile Pages don't appear in the window where you'd select the page you want to add the tab to. I've seen other applications that have done it, and have tried many approaches, none of which seem to work.
Any ideas?
Ultimately, my goal is to create a tab in my Application Profile Page, with my own content (which is basically just a picture with a link on it). Tried using the FBML app that Facebook provides but the problem with that is that they don't let you customize the icon to the left of the tab when using the FBML app, and using the iFrame Page Tab Application (as described above) is a workaround, but then I can't add it to my App profile page :\
Thanks
So here's an image of what my Facebook fan page sidebar currently looks like:
Underneath the Tumblr tab, I'd like to add a link that says "My Blog" and when users click on it they're brought to my website. I do NOT want it to open a new tab on my facebook page, I simply want it to be an external link. Is that even possible?
What you're trying is not possible!
You can't add external links as tabs, the only way is to simply create an app which simply redirects to your site and add it to your facebook page, if you don't want to create a new app and do all those stuffs, then the simple way is to use this app: https://www.facebook.com/iframehost?sk=app_208195102528120
It has built in feature for redirecting to external sites, just add this app to your page, authorize it and then select redirect and add your site URL and you're done.
I created a facebook page for my company and we wanted to add a custom tab for users to land on. I went and created an app to do an iframe tab since fbml has been depreciated. Anyway i have everything set and added the app on the fan page, but when you click on the link for the custom tab nothing shows up in the content area.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? I can see the content just fin on our server, it just doesn't load inside the facebook page
I have the same problem (FF 3.6, IE8). I've discovered that the Custom app/tab won't display in the my FB page if I'm logged into my own page. The only "solution" I have found is to log out of FB, or open a different browser and display the page "anonymously". Only then does the custom tab appear.
I'm new to facebook app development and i cant seem to figure this out. I have a simple app i made (an iframe website) that i want to add to a tab on my facebook page. When i try to click on the + tab to add it to my page i only have a few options of youtube, events, fbml... When i do a search absolutely nothing comes up unless i search for those items i just mentioned before (youtube, events, fbml).
Type this into your browser's url bar with the appropiate ids. (I already assume you have configured the app settings for page tab urls,etc).
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/ for a full explanation.