As I submit an application for "read" action on Open Graph I 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 note that we cannot accept resubmission as this time due to technical limitations, so you will need to create a new submission. We plan to have this resolved within the next couple of weeks. We suggest making the required changes and checking back. 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.
Unfortunately, this "guide" is not helping with anything. Firstly, I have no idea where to do this:
You must give users the ability to turn sharing off/on globally as well as remove an article that was shared within the app.
Second of all, I don't even know how to "resubmit"!
Any help would be appreciated.
I was experiencing the same thing. You have to click on the name of your action that you submitted. Once you do that, Facebook provides detailed instructions why they didn't approve the action and what you need to do before you resubmit. Once you review the message, you can make the necessary changes and save the action again. Then you'll have the option to resubmit. In my case Facebook said that I need to provide more detailed instructions what the user needs to do to get an action published. They provided this example: "User must create an account, enable Timeline sharing in the settings, view a product within the app and then click the “want” button underneath the product image to trigger a story". I did that and resubmitted. Hopefully it works this time around. Good luck.
To resubmit, just delete the rejected action and create a new one. You can use the same action name as before. You then go through the submission process again as you did the first time.
Facebook have recently updated their guide to implementing their built-in action types. For the Read action type, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/builtin/#read. You will see a sample application that meets the following criteria required for the use of this action type:
Turn sharing on/off globally on each page an article appears.
Remove articles they shared within your app on each page an article appears.
Only generate read actions when you're sure someone is interested in reading the article.
Built-In actions can't be resubmitted. It is a FB Bug:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/364663400220101?browse=search_4f44876aabaef7501649601
From this answer on FB tools and support I got this:
You can start a new submission at the bottom of the "Items in Review" page:
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/337449599791917/review-status/items-in-review/
That link didn't work for me.. so I just went to the app dashboard and clicked on status and review
clicking on the start a new submission button loaded a dialog that prompted me to select which items to "re-review".. so I only selected the problematic one:
after that it loads a form for you to resubmit, so here you gotta re-upload the iOS simulator build etc..
and that's it!
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copy pasted the exact code from https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/getting-started/ , changed the appid. Yesterday it used to work..now..not so much.any idea?
Check the settings for your Open Graph action.
Go to the Open Graph Dashboard for your app on Facebook Developers.
Click on the Read action.
Click the Advanced link.
Make sure that Allow Multiple is selected for the setting called Unique action.
Okay, I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong in Open Graph, but here goes. I've got 3 stories in my Open Graph, which are three different actions linked to one object type.
Make A Pledge To -> Cause
Create -> Cause
Log Expense For -> Cause
Here is what the three look like in the sample section (I'm pretty sure they look like that in the actual timeline as well).
Make a pledge to a cause:
Create a cause:
Log an expense for a cause:
Is there a reason why the "make a pledge" layout is different? Both objects are actual objects on my website, parsed via providing the url to Facebook's sample data tool. I've set the caption in the "make a pledge" story to the same as the "create" story, but the description and cause target that appears in the "create" story doesn't appear in the "make a pledge" story.
Could someone help me on this? Is there a way I can make the "make a pledge" story look like the "create" story? Or is this something Facebook decides?
Facebook uses both formats – and which gets chosen is not up to you or any settings you make/picture formats you use, but Facebook themselves decides that. It might even be one or the other for different users viewing one and the same story.
They do that to test out the formats, and see which one is more “successful”, meaning which one generates more user interaction.
(Can’t point you to a source for that, but is has been confirmed by Facebook employees in the Facebook Developers Group.)
Facebook checks if an image is available on the referenced site/link. If it finds it, it shows a slightly different format. Your second two actions didn't have an image in the reference.
My site allows a user to create a watchlist of stocks. In the site, the action is referred to as "Add to watchlist". I wanted this to create a FB open graph action called "watch" but I believe this is not possible, because watching is a built in action that can only be used on video objects. As such, I've been receiving rejections from FB along the lines of:
Your Action failed the criteria: You are trying to submit a custom action which is not permitted. Please delete this action and submit a built-in version of this action instead.
I can't use the builtin because I need to connect it to my custom "Stock" object. I've tried renaming the action and its verb conjugations every way I can think of ("add to watchlist", "track", etc), but have been rejected at least 5 times. I've run out of ideas.
I've tried to find answers on FB, and here (1 2 3), but have so far not found a viable solution. I think FB must not like the fact that the action is called "watch" in the site itself, and so therefore I have to use the builtin. I'd rather not redo a significant piece of my site just on the off chance it might make FB's reviewers happy, so any other ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Recreating the custom action from scratch as "Track" (deleting the original action, creating a new one, posting the shared activity as an appliction administrator, and then resubmitting with the same how-to instructions) has finally resulted in an approved custom action.
I am trying to submit a facebook opengraph action. It is a simple "Read" "Article" action, however when I submit it for approval facebook eventually responds with this error.
"Status: Changes needed
You are trying to submit a custom action which is not permitted. Please delete this action and submit a built-in version of this action instead.
Please make changes below and resubmit for review."
I am not sure what that means, as far as I know it is not a custom action that I created.
Click to create a new action type, and when the text box appears, start typing "read" and then select the option that drops down. That is the built-in read action.
I had the same issue, it seems FB doesn't allow to add built in actions as custom for some unknown reason, may be they have some future plan with them for AI stuff. The only the thing I see in built in read is its very limited.
try this tutorial http://onlytipsandtricks.com/facebook/how-to-publish-actions-on-timeline/
Is there any way to transfer comments from a "deleted" Facebook app (that is still receiving comments) to a new app id? The app was deleted by accident quite some time ago but we now have thousands of comments that have been entered using it. I'm afraid I will lose all of the comments if I simply switch to a new app. The app id seems to function just fine with the commenting mechanism, but I can't manage it or use it in any other way.
AFAIK, there is no automated way of doing this. However, you can read them programatically from your deleted app (provided you have the permissions) and then post it again on your new app.
You can get the original app's feed using the following (PHP) code:
$response=file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/".$id."/feed&access_token=".$facebook_access_token);
$response_array=json_decode($response,true);
// $id: ID of the page where the comments are
You can also customize this query by adding pagination parameters like since,limit,until etc. Please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ for documentation.
And can be reposted to your app by HTTP POSTing to the same URL. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#posts for details.
Please understand that you can't post as the original author - so you can only post the text and perhaps manually add the context of the original author. so i.e:
"Shreeni: 'This is a cool app' "
will have to become
"App: 'Shreeni said: 'This is a cool app' ' "