I've been trying to set up my Facebook Application Profile Page by adding an iFrame tab to it. Seeing as this is similar to the process of adding an iFrame tab to a Fan Page, I going through the same process, to no avail.
In order to add an iFrame tab to a Fan Page, one is required to create a Facebook iFrame Page Tab Application (process described here: http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/tutorial-add-an-iframe-application-to-your-facebook-fan-page-fall-2012/), and then browse to the newly created app's page, click the 'Add to My Page' link and select the page to which they want to add the iFrame Page Tab Application.
Now, if I want to do the same thing, but instead of adding the iFrame Page Tab Application to a Fan Page, add it to an Application Profile Page, then that's impossible because, apparently, Application Profile Pages don't appear in the window where you'd select the page you want to add the tab to. I've seen other applications that have done it, and have tried many approaches, none of which seem to work.
Any ideas?
Ultimately, my goal is to create a tab in my Application Profile Page, with my own content (which is basically just a picture with a link on it). Tried using the FBML app that Facebook provides but the problem with that is that they don't let you customize the icon to the left of the tab when using the FBML app, and using the iFrame Page Tab Application (as described above) is a workaround, but then I can't add it to my App profile page :\
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This all sounds confusing;
I have a Facebook Canvas App with the same name as the Fan Page. I would like to add an iFrame tab to the Fan Page to promote and link to the Canvas App. My question is do I have to create a new app for the iFrame tab, or do I open my app settings for the canvas app and add settings for a page tab as well in there. Facebook don;t seem to have much documentation and they are changing things for app profiles soon, so I want to make sure I keep my fans of the page.
Thanks in advance.
Basically it goes like this.
You have an iFrame app.
The iFrame app has a canvas which is where you load your html for your app from your webserver with whatever language you want (.NET, PHP etc)
Then you can add this iFrame app to your page.
When you go to http://apps.facebook.com/yourappname
You will be shown the app by itself. When you add it to your page and load it via the tab on the menu of your page it will show you the app within the space on your page (an iframe).
You can use code to detect whether you are on a page or not to display different things.
I created a facebook page for my company and we wanted to add a custom tab for users to land on. I went and created an app to do an iframe tab since fbml has been depreciated. Anyway i have everything set and added the app on the fan page, but when you click on the link for the custom tab nothing shows up in the content area.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? I can see the content just fin on our server, it just doesn't load inside the facebook page
I have the same problem (FF 3.6, IE8). I've discovered that the Custom app/tab won't display in the my FB page if I'm logged into my own page. The only "solution" I have found is to log out of FB, or open a different browser and display the page "anonymously". Only then does the custom tab appear.
I made an application for using Facebook's likes/comments.
This is the app.
However, I made a separate fan page.
How do I link the two such that the App's Profile Page points to the one that I have made?
I can't afford to make a new page since I have already gathered 250+ likes, and it was hard.
Facebook changes their user interface once in a while, and it can be difficult how to add an app as a tab to a Facebook page.
Here is how you do it:
The app must be a tab app. When you create the app, you get a chance to specify a Page tab URL and a Secure Page Tab URL. If the app is set up as a "App on Facebook", it will not work. Make sure your app is set up as a "Page Tab"
After you create the Tab app, click on "View App Profile Page" in the left column.
Click "Add to My Page"
Select the page to which you want to add this tab and click the close button
There is a step by step tutorial on how to do this here:
http://how-to-create-facebook-app.koliber.com
You can link the app to the page by clicking the "link to my page" link at the lower left of the app screen. A box pops up that lists all the pages you are an administrator of. Just select the one you are targeting.
The app including its info content will then appear as an extra tab/menu item on your page. That way, the visitors of your page have direct access to your app.
I'm new to facebook app development and i cant seem to figure this out. I have a simple app i made (an iframe website) that i want to add to a tab on my facebook page. When i try to click on the + tab to add it to my page i only have a few options of youtube, events, fbml... When i do a search absolutely nothing comes up unless i search for those items i just mentioned before (youtube, events, fbml).
Type this into your browser's url bar with the appropiate ids. (I already assume you have configured the app settings for page tab urls,etc).
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/ for a full explanation.
I am trying to add a new box on the main view of our Fan Page.
And populate it with HTML from our main webserver (django) when the user opens the fan-page.
Is there any way to do this ?
You should read up on creating facebook applications...
Once you have an application you can setup a page tab application and add that to your fan page.
Finally go to your fan page settings, and the "Manage Permissions" tab. There you can set your "Default landing tab". Be aware, as the administrator of the page the landing tab will not work for YOUR account - you'll have to log into a different facebook account to see this behaviour.
There's two way of reading what you want to do :
1/ You want a landing for non-fans
2/ You want a landing page for all your user
The first one is achievable by creating an application and fill the page tabs fields (PAge tab name, Page tab url, secure page tab url). Then going to the App Profile Page, add it to your page. Then on the admin panel of your page pick your app as default landing tab.
The second isn't achievable. One a user likes your page, its default page is your wall and you can't change it.
I'm not sure exactly what you wants to achieve, hope I helped.