I am developing an application for my fan page everything works fine but I can not install it onthe fan page only users.
it takes to install a fan page?
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&display=popup&next=YOUR_URL
YOUR_URL should be the Page Tab URL from app settings.
http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&pages
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your Application Key and then choose which FanPage do you want to install it to.
Go to https://developers.facebook.com
Select the App you wish to use
on the Settings tab scroll down and click + Add Platform, there you can select "Page Tab" after which you will be given a config screen
Get your app id
then go to
http://facebook.com/APP_ID
that will show your APP profile page.
On the left side you need to click on
Add to my Page
you will see all the facebook pages you own, just need to select the one you want
Related
I relate to this well known Page Tab Tutorial by FB: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs.
The third step, after filling of page tab info and adjusting of the tab width is getting a prompt to select a page, to which the newly created tab will be added. But i don't get this promt, like it's written in the tutorial and seems to be the normal case for all users.
After i edit tab details and press "save changes", the page reloads with "saved"-message, like on this screenshot,
and i see no further given possibility to add created app to any of my pages. If i go into the administration area of any of my pages, in the tab "apps" is this newly created app not present, so i can't add it from there too. What i'm doing wrong? The solution must be simple - i go crazy:( I tried it with Firefox and Chrome, setted off all popup- and adblockers - nothing goes...
Thanks for ideas and advice!
Evgeniy
The "manual solution" to this problem has changed. While logged into facebook, visit this link in your browser:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_URL
There are two parts of this link you must change before it will function.
YOUR_APP_ID: Find this in your app settings or app dashboard URL. It's a long number, 16+ digits.
YOUR_URL: Use the URL of the content your new tab page will call, ie "Tab Page URL" as entered in your app settings.
This newly modified URL will load a page with a dialog where you can choose which of your Facebook Pages to add the tab to.
These instructions appear here but they are far from clear. Good luck!
For anybody who will look for solution:
to add a page tab to any page do it manually: edit a link
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=HERE-COMES-APPID-OF-YOUR-PAGE-TAB-APP&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com
fill into the link the app id of your newly created page tab and run this link in your brwoser: you will get a site with the prompt from the first image i cited in the first post. There you will be able to select one or, with pressing SHIFT, many pages to add your app/page tab.
You must choose "PAGE TAB" in the dialog ! ! !
see the TUTORIAL here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35287477/2377343
I've searched and searched and can't seem to find any info in regards to this...
We have a facebook page (facebook.com/companyname). We also have an app on facebook (apps.facebook.com/companyname). I can create a NEW community page from the app, but i cant link it to the existing page. How come? Is there any way to do so?
There's plenty of similiar questions and no one has had an answer yet.
Thanks for the help!
You should go to edit your page and change the category to Brands & Products and sub-category to App Page.
Then go to app details and select this page as app page.
#Muhammad Javeed - Thanks to you, I finally figured this out!
For those who need a little help, this was what I did.
Goto your existing Facebook Page
Click on 'Edit Page' button and select 'Edit Settings' from drop down menu.
Click on 'Page Info' on the settings page.
Click on 'Category' to expand selections.
Select 'Brands & Products' in 1st drop down and 'App Page' in the 2nd drop down.
Click 'Save Changes' and that's it.
Go back to your App Developer Page > App Details > Contact Info > App Page > Link to your Page.
Unless Facebook changes the menu/settings page dramatically, I can confirm this works!
I have done significant research into this. There is no way to do this (though it's such a common use case where someone already has an active fan page and launching an app later)
Earlier every app used to have a profile page (which was not like fan page) and facebook at the start of the year gave ever app admin to move their likes to another fan page. This option has been removed.
There is another way that I have discovered.
Create fan page for the app (from app details section) by clicking "Create Fan Page"
Goto pages and select this newly created fan page and rename it to be the same as the other active fan page(with which you initially wanted to link to). This is needed because merge option appear when 2 pages have same name and same category.
Goto your active (original) fan page, click edit page, goto resource and click on merge pages and do the marge.
However as someone has already reported, there is a bug in the system, on merging it removes the app link (something that will be fixed soon). Here is the link to the bug.
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/413029272079414?browse=search_5033475a2a50c9f73780526
I tried the other answers but didn't worked for me.
What worked for my case is that I needed to make the name of the fb page & app's name match EXACTLY. And after making them the same I now see a dropdown and then selected the right fb page.
If you've linked them correctly you should see a new button called "Play Now" on your page, if its a game app.
Check it on this page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-Pics-1-Word-Tagalog/499833986805671
I fixed this issue by:
Choose only one App Page for the page Category
Go to https://developers.facebook.com/ Setting > Advanced, scroll down to the App, now you can see the button to choose the existing page
Create a second Page on App Advance Settings.
Now go to the other first Page Settings you have and Merge.
I have been struggling with this same issue. It appears that the name do not need to match entirely but at least the app name needs to start with (part of) the page name. I found this since the page name was longer than the allowed max name length of the app.
Paul
as on Nov 17th, 2017.
App page itself is a category, selecting this category would be the only option.
Also, Fb App name and Fb Page name must be the same for integrating existing page.
Are you talking about adding a tab for your app (apps.facebook.com/companyname) to your existing page (facebook.com/companyname)?
If so, then go to your page (facebook.com/companyname) and in the URL type in
"https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=[YOUR_APP_ID]&next=[YOUR_APP_CANVAS_URL]"
That should automatically direct to a form asking you which 'page' you would like to add a tab to. Select the page from the drop down list and click ok. That should redirect you to your app canvas url. Navigate back to your company page and see if the tab appears at the bottom of the list on the left hand side.
Cheers.
If I create a canvas and open the app profile page, It is showing a new look taking the left side area and there is no menu for 'Add to my Page'. What am I doing wrong? I am just unable to include a tab to a page.
I am trying to create an app to run my iframe, I used the following settings.
Apps On Facebook:
Canvas URL - Enter (http://YOURAPPLICATIONID.iframehost.com/)
Secure Canvas URL: (https://YOURAPPLICATIONID.iframehost.com/)
Page Tab:
Tab URL - Enter http://(YOURAPPLICATIONID.iframehost.com/tab)
Secure Tab URL- Enter (https://YOURAPPLICATIONID.iframehost.com/tab)
However there docent appear to be a way to "Add to my page" from the app profile page. I am following this tutorial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLpR2u7Ul8
Use the following to add to your facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=[APP-ID]&pages=1
Replace [APP-ID] with your app id
Hope it helps.
Facebook are continuously changing things so most of the non-FB documentation and tutorials get outdated very quickly (which is a pain because they are much easier to understand than FBs own documentation!)
This time they're changing how the App Profile pages work, and some changed have been made since last week. You can find out the new way of adding your page here:
http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/facebook-removing-app-profile-pages-on-feb-1-2012/
Basically, you need to
Use the "Create Facebook Page" button in the edit app page
and either:
2 Create a link for others to add your tab using code similar this:
<a href="#" onclick=window.open("http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=176217385757369&next=http://tabpressapp.phpfogapp.com/content/pages/","PageTab","width=800,height=500");>Add TabPress to Your Fan Page!</a>
or 3. For your own private use code similar to this:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=176217385757369&next=http://tabpressapp.phpfogapp.com/content/pages/
(replacing with your own app_id & nexturl obviously!)
Edit: forgot to mention, the url for "next" is either the “Canvas URL” or “Page Tab URL” you used in your edit app page.
I haven't had to do this myself yet, but please let me know how it goes because I will soon!
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
Where YOUR_URL = the website address where you upload the HTML files.
Ref: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/
Okay, Ive been trying to accomplish a very simple task.
How can get my new custom app url from:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Testbusiness/898989898989898?sk=app_898989898989898
to:
http://www.facebook.com/jgarridodk?sk=app_898989898989898
I realize that i have the app assigned to a separate page (i created earlier) but Ive seen on other profiles that the first page you visit contains all the apps on the left side bar. Im just not understanding why facebook has made this so difficult.
EDIT:
My objective is to have a share button in an app. I have been referring to this page:
http://fbmhell.com/2011/09/bypassing-default-share-format-in-facebook-fan-page-tabs/
Thank you!
You must be an administrator of the page you wish to put your application on.
Visit http://developers.facebook.com/apps
Click your application
Click Edit App (Top right)
Click View App Profile Page (Left hand side)
Click Add to My Page (Left hand side)
In the lightbox which appears click Add to Page next to the one you wish to add it to.
You can't add tab to user's profile, so creating http://www.facebook.com/jgarridodk?sk=app_898989898989898 is not possible, sorry. You can only add tab to fan page (like here: http://www.facebook.com/cocacola). This type of page doesn't have friends, it gathers likes and is mostly used to represent companies/celebrities/activities. If you want to add application to this kind of page, you have to go to http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=898989898989898 and click "Add to my page".
EDIT
You probably want this:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Testbusiness/257200034311838?sk=page_getting_started
Click "Edit page" on right top side of page.
Go to "Basic information".
Click "Create username for this page?".
Enter username.
Enjoy:)
Can I change facebook tab name by PHP sdk from apps.facebook.com/XXXX/ by dynamically(with one form and one text box and one submit button).
Second is: can I create multiple tab name one at a time on the fly from apps.facebook.com/AAAA?
No, you cant.
You can not change the settings of your application, which include its tab name, by any of the sdk's facebook offers.