I'm sorry for asking a really stupid question, but since facebook changes its ways of developing and creating almost everything, I see no other way, but asking here.
I have a very simple task to perform, I created about 7 static HTML page on our server and I'd like to build them into an iframe, displayed in page tabs. So a New Tab for every page.
I allready created the tab, and the tab does pull the content from our server, but I have absolutely no Idea how to add this app to the page?
On the left side of the page, there allready are some frequently used apps, like flickr, rss-blog, youtube etc, if I click on "edit", I can only adjust those apps and remove them, but I have no possibility to add a new app. Am I missing anything? Every existing tutorial is about one or two years ol - and since facebook constantly changes those things, they are completely worthless.
thanks for the help!
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=<app_id>&next=<app_url>
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The reviews tab is missing https://www.facebook.com/AlmogSPA
I need to add a reviews tab like here https://www.facebook.com/uniqueitworld/reviews?ref=page_internal
I have tried to change it to "local business" and to change address but it not worked
Thanks
You do have the Reviews tab in your page. Since there can only be about 4 tabs visible at a time, it is placed inside the More section. Click on More and then Manage Tabs. There you can rearrange your tabs and bring the Reviews tab towards the top.
The previous answer is incorrect. The reviews tab seems to be not visible to the OP (in fact, I see now that they went with a 3rd party app to recover the ability to interact with them). However, the reviews are visible to the anyone but the page owner.
This seems to be a relatively common problem, with no answer from facebook. (See for example this post, (but there are hundreds of them)
Seems to be an ongoing problem with facebook that has never been addressed or solved.
Howerver, a few people have had success by adding/re-adding either an address or a business category to their page, but for most, this does not work (I refer you to the comments in the same link).
The right way to do it is:
Go to settings
Go to general
Enable the reviews option
Have fun!
I started looking into OwnCloud app development to add some capabilities I would like to my server. To me it seems like Apps can't modify anything like the Login page or User Management page. Is this the case?
I want to build a user registration app and would love to integrate it into the user management page (if not and it has to exist as its own app page not a big deal). The one big problem I see so far is not being able to add a "Register" link to the login page. I could just go in and add it to the source manually, but I would like to keep the App self contained so others can use it too.
If this is not possible to do in an App I may just need to modify the core application and then see if they will accept my feature addition in a pull request.
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this for me. I don't want to waste my time trying to figure out how to do it with an App on the platform if it wont be doable.
After a lot of digging around I did figure out a way to do this.
In the App's app.php file, you can force a script to be loaded if the plugin is enabled:
$api->addScript('script_name'); // without .js
In that script jQuery can be used to add the elements to the page where you need them.
This was a good solution for me since I only needed to add a single button to the login page. I can see this being a bad idea if you want to make vast modifications. At that point you might as well just create a separate page that you have full control over.
I am trying to create a page tab app that I can add to one of my FB pages (just trying to create a simple iframe tab here folks, don't know why this has to be such a cluster**).
I have followed the instructions but I see no way to actually add the app to the list of apps available for the page I want it displayed on.
Does anyone have good step by step instructions for this process? Maybe I can pinpoint where I went wrong.
Sorry for this basic question but all attempts at Googling and using facebook help only provide out of date information.
I am attempting to make my first fb app. Just an html page saying hello. From what I understand the app (or webpage) is stored on my server and I set up a facebook app that basically points to the URL of the app (or webpage) on my server.
Is this basically correct.
Where do I enter this URL information in my edit app screen. I have followed the latest fb instructions and all I see when I view the app is the admin page in fb for the app.
Does it take a long time for the page to appear.
Is there a current idiots guide. The app design is not a problem for me loading it in to facebook is the problem.
Unfortunately this wasn't very helpful, not because of what you posted but due to the fact that it appears that Facebook has updated the way in which pages are linked to again.
The pages you suggested I look at were well laid out with lots of information on them but they are already out of date and do not seem to correspond with the layout of the Facebook 'dev app' and even the fields in the form seem to have been either dropped added to renamed.
Thanks for trying to help me and I hope that FB may produce some up to date information soon and not keep changing the interface.
I can completely understand your confusion - the Facebook docs give very little information for the complete beginner. The 'Getting Started' section makes some massive assumptions and completely ignores huge key areas you need to know to get your first application up and running.
So to address your points:
Yes, this is basically correct. Apps on Facebook are served up to the user in one of two ways. Either as a 'Canvas App' or a 'Tab App'. A Tab App is an application you can install as a tab on a profile page. A Canvas App can operate on it's own page and has more room as there's no left menu as you would have on a profile page. You can configure a single app to work in both ways.
To edit your application settings, go to your own Facebook home page. Use the search bar to search for the 'Developer App'. Typing in 'developer' should do it - it should be the first result in the App section with around 830,000 monthly users. This Developer app is the window into your own app settings. You need to install it if you haven't already. It's a hub where all the apps you create will be available for you to edit. Whenever you want to edit one of your app settings in future, you click the Developer bookmark that will now be in the left menu on your own Facebook home page.
No. Apps are basically an iframe onto your code. There should be very little if any wait at all. Start with something very simple like spitting out some straight html so you can easily tell if things are set up correctly.
Yes. I found thinkdiff.net to be massively useful in the early days to get my head round the basics and then more advanced concepts. There's tons of examples ranging from very simple to quite advanced. I've just had a quick look around and found this page which should give you a decent head start in getting things moving. Note: I have no affiliation with thinkdiff.net at all - I just found them helpful in the past.
Finally, a request from me; this whole stack overflow thing is new for Facebook developers and very few people are voting up answers they consider helpful. This means new users to SO but experienced FB developers can't vote up good answers and vote down bad ones as we need enough Reputation Points to do so. If this has helped you, please ensure you vote up the answer. Of course if it was rubbish and you're just as lost, dont :D
Hope I've helped in some small way; I know I was completely lost for the first few weeks with FB development and even now there are things that make me tear my hair out! In the end it's very rewarding, but you have to put in the time. Good luck :)
I need to provide some help for my app. I'm going to have some info buttons on some screens.
Initially I'd like them to be directed to the exact help page, but I'd like them then to be able to navigate to other pages in the help system.
What should I use, I'm looking for something quick to develop and quick to modify.
I'm thinking local html pages perhaps ?
Any examples / advice
I think the best way to do this is using a UIWebView to load HTML pages from your server. This way the user doesn't leave you app and the information can be updated or change as you may need.