I have been trying for almost a week to install a Unity3d app/game on a Facebook page. I'm probably one of 2 people on earth that is not that familiar with Facebook. I have had a Facebook Ad account for over a year. I think this might be the problem. I can't find any information if apps can even be added to Ad accounts. Every post suggests adding the 'Development App' or a Canvas Page. These processes lead me back to my Ad page and there is no Dev App to install or links or canvas pages. When I try to use the Developer Tutorial or the canvas tutorial clicks lead back to my ad page. On 'Ad Page' on the left side I have the following options....Campaigns and Ads, Pages, Reports, Settings, Billings, Creative Library and Learn More. I tried to open a regular account and deactivate the Ad Account, but could not get pass the phone number verification because I'd used my number to verify my first account. So that one never got fully set up. I reactivated the Ad Account but still can't access the Development App or Canvas Pages or Open Graph. How can I ad the Development App to an Ad Account?
The developer app, http://www.facebook.com/developers, stopped working for me a couple of weeks ago. I think you're supposed to use https://developers.facebook.com/apps now.
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I’m trying to set up and link the facebook sdk in some existing mobile apps to an existing fan page. I’m an admin for the fan page, so I have access to https://www.facebook.com/analytics/page_a_id/ for that page. I want to be able to track ad clicks —> app installs. I got a new app working with the sdk setting it up through https://developers.facebook.com/apps/app_b_id/dashboard/. But I want it to be linked to the first page, not a new app. How can I create an app and link it to that already existing fan page? I have followed the instructions from this answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/13904144/419194), and I was able to successfully see the page I want to connect on https://developers.facebook.com/apps/app_b_id/settings/advanced/ . However, events from the facebook sdk on Android still are reported in the analytics page for page_a_id. Why is this? Is there anything else I have to do? Or am I just misunderstanding how this all works entirely?
And just to keep me sane, this is the correct process, right? I only want to be able to feed the sdk into the analytics. I feel like many other people must have done this, but there seems to be a lot of confusion from various SO/FB help posts.
I made a test FB page and connected chatbot to it and everything works fine (for me).
It is a simple chatbot that just repeats what you said (work in progress).
Now I'd like to share it with my friends but I can't because app is not published.
Tried to publish it explicitly saying in my app submission that this is only for testing purposes but FB turned it down.
This is just for couple of my friends and this app will change over time as I add better features / bot becomes smarter.
So my question is: is there a way to add real test users like you have on TestFlight for iOS?
Testing should by done before publishing application so that's the most probable reason you gout turned down. To test bot you have to add your friends to bot application (not page) as testers, developers or admins.
To add testers visit Roles section on your bot application and click "Add Testers". On following popup enter their Facebook usernames (found on end of their profile URL). For example if your friend is Mark Zuckerberg with following profile link:
https://www.facebook.com/zuck
you would add him by typing "zuck" in popup. You could also add testers by entering Facebook ID instead of username.
People do not have to be your Facebook friends for you to add them as testers but they will have to accept request and connect to developers hub.
Go the Roles section of your facebook app. You can add testers there, you must be facebook friends I believe.
On this page, it says that Facebook Login is not required to use the Share Dialog. I've developed an app that uses the Share Dialog, and it all works fine in testing.
However, when it comes to approving the app, under "App Details" it tells me this:
Your submission contains the following errors:
You must choose at least one platform to be displayed
I don't actually need the app listed in FB's app center, but it seems to require it. So then I check the Android option, and instead I get this error:
Facebook Login has not been used successfully on your app in the past
30 days. Please test Facebook Login with your app prior to submitting
for review. Be sure to test the entire login flow, starting with the
TOS agreement (this may require uninstalling and reinstalling your
app). We will remove your app from the App Center if we determine that
you have not integrated Facebook Login correctly.
Now naturally since the app just uses the Share Dialog, which doesn't need a login, I haven't implemented login.
How do I get past this? I've read through a LOT of docs on the FB website.
You don't need the app to be listed in Facebook's app center. You need to go to Your App > Settings > Add Platform > Website and list the Site URL. Facebook apps require a "platform" to be specified (web, iPhone, canvas etc).
Preamble:
I'm not a Facebook user, I never had any Facebook account, so I'm not familiar at all with the Facebook website.
I need to create a Facebook App
Today I need to implement "Facebook Connect" (authentication) for the website of a client. I'm using an existing extension which requires me to enter my App ID and Secret key, which can be obtained by creating a Facebook App.
1: Where to get started?
According to both the Facebook Documentation and the extension I'm using, a Facebook App can be created by going to the following URL: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
2: Account required
When I go to that URL I am asked to login. Very well, so I go ahead and create my very first Facebook Account. On the registration form it says that if the account is created for a business then I don't need to enter my personal name. This account is not for me but for my client's website, and my client being a business, I go on and open a business account.
3: Account verification
To complete, I am required to verify my email address, which I do successfully. After that, it asked me to verify my personal phone number, which I do successfully.
4: Account created & verified: still can't access the App Creation page
Now, I finally have a Facebook Business Account. I go again to that same URL to create a Facebook App: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/. However, I still can't access the page as according to the Facebook Documentation it seems that I need to convert my account to a "Developer Account".
5: Developer Account required
Very well, I follow the process of converting my account to a Developer Account, provide all kind of information about me and the company hiring me, and finally, I now have a Developer Account, yeey!!
6: Second attempt
Ok, now it should certainly work and I will FINALLY be able to create this dawn app to start implementing Facebook Connect on my client's website!
Double checking that the URL is the correct one from the documentation of the plugin, and also from the Facebook Documentation itself, I go ahead and refresh this page: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
7: Still fail: now getting redirected to Facebook Advertising
But now, when loading the above URL, I am automatically redirected to the following page: https://www.facebook.com/advertising
I have tried to log-out, erase all my cookies, login again, but nothing will do, when I go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ I am always redirected to https://www.facebook.com/advertising which is about creating ads but what I need is to create an app!
8: Personal Account required
I searched all over the place for an explanation or maybe for a newer URL, but no luck. I finally found on StackOverflow (Can't access Facebook Developers App!!?! Redirected to my page repeatedly) that I can't create a Facebook App with a Business Account, and that I need a Personal Account instead.
9: Personal Account creation
Very well, I go ahead and create my very first personal account on Facebook.
10: Can't create a personal account, email and phone already used!
Oops, it says that my email was already used for another account. Hmmm OK so I go ahead and create a new email address especially, and then try to register a personal account again. Now it is asking to verify my phone number, which I do, but unfortunately it says that my phone number was already used to verify another account earlier today!
Dawn, I'm really starting to feel exhausted by Facebook. Let's think about a solution. I have only one phone number, and I wouldn't use the phone of a friend as they all have Facebook and all probably verified their own accounts using their phones.
11: Deleting my Business Account created earlier
Solution founds! I will delete my business account, so my real email and my phone number will be available again! Yeey!!!
12: Facebook won't delete my account today
A few minutes later, I understand that my Facebook Account cannot be deleted today. I can deactivate it. But this won't free my email nor my phone number. After some research on the web I found a hidden form that allows to really delete my account. I go ahead through the deletion process, enter my password about 10 times, and fill 10 really hard CAPTCHAS, and finally my account is deleted! Oh wait... it says it won't be deleted before 2 weeks!!!
13: Final attempt: fail again
Anyway, I still try to use my phone number again to create a personal account, but still no luck, Facebook won't let me use my own phone number to activate my account.
What are my options?
Have you looked at all into dummy phone numbers, such as with Google voice (free) or with Skype (nominal fee)? Some sites, such as Craigslist, can sniff those numbers out and still not allow them to be used for verifying, but others can't tell the difference. Could be useful.
Depending on how big your client's budget is, maybe grab a throwaway prepaid phone from the store and use it. Just a few thoughts on how to avoid the phone issue. Everything else seems straightforward after that.
Building an app on Facebook gives you the opportunity to deeply integrate into the core Facebook experience. Your app can integrate with many aspects of Facebook.com, including the News Feed and Notifications. All of the core Facebook Platform technologies, such as Social Plugins, the Graph API and Platform Dialogs are available to Apps on Facebook.
In this document we will explain the following concepts:
Canvas Page: The Page in which your app is loaded.
Social Channels: The key channels that help you grow your user base and re-engage existing users.
Analytics: Accessing analytics for your application.
If you wish to start building an App on Facebook now, please refer to our getting started tutorial. If you want to build an app to add to the tab of a Facebook Page then you should refer to Page Tabs.
Visit this site
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/
I've spent the past few hours trying to figure this out but can't find anything.
Basically I've setup a website for a music festival, I'm trying to integrate Facebook with the site and whenever I create an app it keeps creating it under my personal account.
I am setup as an admin under the music site's Facebook but I still can't figure out how to create an app just for that music site completely separate from my personal account.
Anytime I try to access the developer section using the account it gives me this error:
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This is by design.
I'm assuming the music site is a Facebook page?
While you can log in and use Facebook as the page, rather than yourself, Facebook apps are always owned by a real Facebook user, not a page. So you either need to create the app yourself, or have someone else create the app and add you as a developer.
From what I understand, everything you do is associated with your personal account as the developer. However, you aren't supposed to be putting it on your personal page. As the developer, whenever I do anything it shows up in my personal account because I am set up as the developer and admin of all my pages. That's how Facebook wants it. Before, people were setting up different accounts for a business profile and it ended up with lots of businesses as personal accounts instead of business pages with an admin user.
Whenever I do anything with Facebook I have everything available to all the pages, but only one is actually using the app or whatever it is. Does anyone see anything different?