I have some weird problems with facebook's custom tab name.
I made a sort of app generator and installed two test apps on a facebook page, as tabs.
The custom tab name can be changed from inside the app and it seems to work ok at first. For example, when you access the Facebook page or a tab like Wall, Photos, etc. the tab names for the apps are the custom ones set from inside the app.
However, if you select one of those apps, the custom tab names revert to their original tab names, the ones set inside Facebook's app developer.
I tested this with 3 different browsers (Opera, Firefox and Chrome), with my account as the app administrator, with a test user for the app account and with an account not related to the app (although this account was also a tester for the app, until I removed it).
Everytime it happened the same.
Is this how the custom tab name should work or is it a sort of Facebook bug?
[edit]This is the link to the page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Great-Demo/141137282644944?sk=app_215275071852681
I don't have a detailed answer for you yet but I've experienced the same and understand from several sources that this is a Facebook bug introduced lastnight with some changes. It appears to be causing grief for a lot of people and Facebook is apparently working on a fix.
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I'm trying to build a custom tab for a Facebook Page that will simply have an iframe. It seems like I have to put this through Facebooks review process, but I'm not sure what permissions I should enter it for.
I've been using this guide (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/tabs/) to get the tab up and running. I have the info filled out for the content I want to pull in, I set the App live, but when I try and view the app, I get the message "Misconfigured App Sorry, MY_APP hasn't been approved for display in App Center."
Some more research makes it seem like it might have to be approved by Facebook to set live, but I'm not seeing anything in the Permissions and Features requests that correspond with what my app does (the actual content being pulled in is a simple text field that takes a zip code as an entry).
It's been about 2 months now. We manage several facebook pages and all these pages were linking to native iOS / Android apps from the CTA button where users were either opening their apps via "Use App" link or were redirected to download them in case they didn't have it installed.
What happens now is that the dialog to connect your app via the "add button" function in Facebook pages, it only shows a textfield to redirect the users to a website (image attached). There is no way to link to a registered app (of course there is a related app registered with all the relevant platforms enabled and the admin has access to it). Facebook, as always is completely silent and not responding to any support requests, clients that had their apps linked to pages now ask us what happened and we are out in the cold without being able to understand wtf is happening.
This happens to 90% of our pages, some of them still have a "Use App" button that works just fine, but all others have the above problem. Also, new pages, suffer from the same problem as well. Changing the page theme doesn't seem to do anything. One (strange) finding is that if you download the pages management app in a mobile device, there is also a checkbox which allows to enter a deep link url besides the standard url but just that. The list with the apps that we had access to link to pages has just vanished.
Any ideas? Anyone having the same issue?
I'm wondering how to hide a Facebook tab from a published fanpage while the tab is under development, so that it only appears for page Admins?
I know you can do this for custom built apps (the sandbox setting), but here I'm not referring to a custom built app, but prebuilt apps like Static HTML.
In order to edit tabs it seems that they have to be added to the page, in order to be able to edit them. That's a problem when customizing a Facebook tab, as you don't want your fans to see your work-in-progress content until it's ready to be published.
Any one who has experience with this?
You could show it only when an admin is logged in by checking the session.
I can't help you more because there is too few information of what you're using..
I a have a facebook app, however it does not show up in the Apps listing at all (of users who have already approved the permissions). How do I make my App show up as an "App" so users can add it to there sidebar? Is there a way to prompt users to make my App one of their favorites?
First question: Why is my App not showing up at all as an App?
Second Question: How can I get my App placed on a user's side bar, in the "Apps" panel list?
http://www.facebook.com/familypot.poker?sk=app_195976757147974
First: Since July 2010 bookmarks are added automatically for apps a user has interacted with there is no facility to manually add bookmarks (look here and also
look here under Bookmarks for quick re-engagement)
Second: I remember that I managed once to have the bookmark automatically added using an authentication process like desribed in the update of this question. However I'm not sure whether this will work for your app.
Been searching the FB documentation to find an answer for this, but have been unsuccessful.
Is an application able to appear as a tab on a page/profile, and also in the sidebar of that same page/profile?
So the tab would show the full application details, but the sidebar would give a small breakdown.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
Pages and profiles are different. You didn't used to be able to have a profile box and a tab for one application, but Facebook recently changed this. Probably because they stated the profile boxes are going away.
Adding an application as a tab on a Profile has always been a bit problematic and convoluted. The user had to click on the "+" tab, and your app may or may not appear under the list and/or come up in the search. However, 2 weeks ago Facebook announced support for an "add as tab" button.
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:add-profile-tab
Note that a user cannot add your application as a "profile box" until you have posted content to their profile (profile.setFBML) to be displayed in the box. The you can use the fb:add-section-button tag to display the "Add to Profile" button in your application. Box content is cached, so every time you want to update the content you need to post it to Facebook.
Adding an app as a tab to a Page has always been fairly easy. Go to the apps facebook page (not the app) and click on the "Add to My Page" link in the top left.
Profile Boxes (and the corresponding Boxes Tab) are gone.
The replacement for both of these is Application-Specific Tabs. You are no longer able to push content directly to a user's profile.
james, it is possible. just started developing fb apps three days ago. so far my app sits in my tabs and in my profile box, displaying different infos.
http://www.snipe.net/2008/09/planning-a-facebook-application/
try this.
Ah interesting, found Developer Roadmap and basically lays out that what I am asking to do, won't be possible for much longer. Unfortunate, but I guess answers why I am finding it rather hard to do.