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:)
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 have recently inherited the Admin/developer role for our page and I am new to Facebook Development. I am attempting to add a new tab to our page and the only option I am getting is to build an App but all of the App options I come across make it sound like it's trying to do more than what I want it to do.
What I want to do is produce a tab on the page. That will link to an app/canvas displaying an image that the user can click to go to our offer.
So far I've built a basic app with Display Name, namespace, Page Tab Name, Page Tab URL and a Tab image. but when I refresh my page I do not get a new tab and when I preview the app page it is not the format I am looking for.
I've tried going through the tutorials but since this is all new to me I ahve yet to make any sense as to what I'm looking for or missing. Could anyone let me know what app format I am looking for? Or am I in the wrong place entirely?
You need to explicitly add an app to a page. Not sure if you've tried it or not but navigate to:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&display=popup&next=YOUR_PAGE_TAB_URL
Replacing YOUR_APP_ID with your app id and YOUR_PAGE_TAB_URL with the url you set for you page tab.
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.
I've made some facebook pages before, but I'm running in to a problem that I haven't had before. Usually, when someone asks me to dev a facebook page for them, it's linked to an account and all I have to do is add the developer app, make a few apps for the links on the side bar, then navigate to the apps I created and click 'add to my page'.
For some reason, this person today gave me their log-in and their account isn't really 'real' so-to-speak. I'm navigated to the page they created upon log-in and there is nothing else loaded, not even a search bar. I was able to add the developer app by navigating to Edit Info (search bar popped up). However I am unable to add any apps to this account. The 'Add to My Page' does not show up on any app pages I navigate to. Is this because the account doesn't really exist? There is a "Create Your Profile" link up near the Settings/Logout buttons.
Am I thinking about this wrong? Is there another way for me to add apps/sidebar tabs with an account like this?
I was thinking of telling the person to register the account fully since "If you create a profile for your business, your account may be disabled for violating our Terms of Use."
Let me know if any of you have any insight.
Thanks!
facebook changes as usual
try my "fix" # http://admine.eu/addapp.html
here is part of the source and actually all you need:
window.open(
"http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=" +
document.getElementById("appid").value +
"&next=" +
document.getElementById("appurl").value,
"PageTab","width=1000,height=300"
)
+document.getElementById("appid") is the id of your app
+document.getElementById("appurl") is the canvas or tab URL of your app
I run into this too. Sometimes as when a client adds me as an admin I have to like the app I made on its profile page then switch to page mode and go to edit the page>apps and it shows up in my list of apps.
If you have already added it once it may already be in that list as well but doesn't show up in the left navigation until you add it as a tab in the app settings while in Page mode.
I find that if there are more than 8 tabs in the navigation already FB won't automatically add it to the left nav.
-Ann
I've put together a javascript snippet that is intended to be used as a bookmarklet. If you use the bookmarklet while on an application's page in the developers section, a new window will automatically open with the add to page-dialog. To use it, just copy the minified code from the repository below and create a new bookmark for "javascript:[the code]" (without the quotation marks).
https://github.com/Wehrzie/Add-Facebook-Application-to-Page-Bookmarklet
Hopefully this will help some until Facebook cleans up their current, quite messy, solution.
Simple to use:
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=APP_ID&next=http://www.facebook.com
More info about what's going on:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/02/01/how-to--migrate-your-app-profile-page/
Dear all, I have a question about Facebook Page: (NOT user profile page, I mean a facebook page where you can become a fan)
How to add a customized box at the bottom left side of wall tab?
(I am the page creator/admin)
Please don't just give an answer "add the box to the page". Cause I really don't know how.
Also, it seems that putting $facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML and $facebook->api_client->profile_setInfo for the application won't provide a way for the page to add the box.
Below is an example image that is done by the other. I have circled the box at the image. I would like to know how to do the same to the page that I owned. Many thanks for reading.
alt text http://design.outblaze.com/calvin/facebook/facebookPageBoxQ.jpg
$facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML
is absolutely correct afair. Go to the App Page and Add the App to your Fan Page. It will most properbly appear in the Boxes Tab.
// get the fbml for the box
$main_box = $this->render();
// the first main_box is actually deprecated feel free not to use it
$this->facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML($main_box, PAGE_ID, $main_box, NULL, $main_box, $main_box);
// for easier workflow forward the user directly to the page
$this->facebook->redirect(PAGE_URL);
But as said by others in this thread in 90% of the cases the Static FBML App by Facebook does the job.
Unreality's answer helped me best but one clarification is needed. These boxes can be added only to "Pages" that you have admin rights to. You cannot add one of these boxes to your profile page from what I can see. (Anybody? Prove me wrong, please!)
You write an application that has a box. You add the box to the page, then move the box to the page's wall.
For example, I moved the Notes box on my app's page to my wall so you could see it:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=96193636102
Update, with more info:
In general, the way you do this is you add a function to your app that creates a block of fbml and passes it to setFBML(), using your page's ID instead of a user ID as the destination.
I'm planning to do this myself to add some summary statistics to my app's profile page, but that has to wait til after working hours.
I have found the answer. It's using the static fbml made from facebook
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4949752878&ref=s
Go there, click "add to my page", and pick your page.
Then goto your own page, and click "Edit page", then you will find FBML under the applications.
Click the pencil at the FBML box top right, select edit.
Then at the edit page, just write something up and save the changes
Next go back to your own page. Goto the "Boxes" tab, you will find the FBML box that you have just made.
Click the pencil button at the FBML box, select "Move to Wall Tab", and then done! Happy FaceBooking!
As far as I understand the profile boxes will be removed soon.