My new App dosent show up in search, and on the app profile page it wont show the "go to app" button
i did create the app on a https (secure) canvas page, but it just wont work properly, also my app is coded to post to the users wall, but it's not posting to walls. Can facebook have removed my app wall posting rights? can it have to do with that i use a new app i setup before you had to verify your facebook accounts to create apps? i havent verifyed my account. Can that be it? please i really need your help!
You say it's a new app, so it likely hasn't been submitted to search because you either don't have 10 active users yet, or Facebook hasn't rebuilt their index to include your app yet.
"We have removed the “Submit to Search" link from the app settings
page. Now, when your app reaches 10 monthly active users it will be
queued to be indexed the next time we rebuild our index (we rebuild
every 2-4 weeks). If you already have 10 monthly active users it will
be added to the indexing queue immediately."
Source: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/565/
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So I recently made Penn State Worthington Scranton's Facebook page.
I added a page tab app called "PSWS Social Media Hub".
It shows up for me when I am logged in, but it doesn't show up for anyone who is just searching for the page. How can I get it to show up for everyone else?
Thank you in advance!
Questions:
Have you put the app live?
Have you created the App Details page?
Is it a canvas app?
The docs at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/appcenter#creating are stating
We encourage all developers to create an App Details page so that the app appears in search and can be made eligible for listing in the App Center.
For Canvas apps, apparantly 10 MAUs are neccessary to be shown in the search results (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/canvas#search):
When your app exceeds 10 monthly active users it will be automatically queued to be included in the search index the next time we rebuild our search index (we rebuild every 2-4 weeks). After the index is rebuilt your app will be discoverable via Search.
Ok, so I'm using my personal Facebook account, that has a verified cell phone number. I can get to the App Dashboard page, and can click the "+Create a New App" button. I complete the dialog using a name that get's green lit, and click the submit button.
I wait for a few seconds and I'm dumped back to the main App Dashboard page - no new App exists.
This is a personal account and not a company account.
Still stuck on this problem - any chance I could get a FB Dev Support help with this?
I had the same problem and finally got this working. Curiously, visiting the Facebook Developer App page https://facebook.com/developers?ref=ts&fref=ts using IE and going to the app fixed the problem. Using Firefox resulted in an infinite redirect. All of the apps I created but couldn't see started showing up.
Maybe your account is too new. But usually you get an notice.
I've developed an Facebook app: http://ek2012spel.startpagina.nl/. I've developed one before and the last time I've included the option to post a message on your wall whenever you scored a point.
But I noticed Facebook changed it's policy to prevent spamming to a wall. And I salute them for it. So I wanted to try something else.
Include a Like Button.
Only the people that press the Like button get news updates in their stream.
The news updates won't be automated. It will be me telling them a new round has started or something similar.
I'm pretty sure this is (or at least was) possible. Question is; how?
Should I create a seperate Facebook user for my app?
A new page (or is it called tab)? And link the Like button on my app to that page?
Sub issue: My current Like Button is linked to an (old) URL. The URL redirects to the new one. Any chance I can change the URL without losing all the likes?
That document was referring to an old App Profile page - these were removed in February -I've updated that doc to show the current way to create a page for your app (the option is now in the 'Advanced' tab of the app settings.)
Based on what you've said above, you should do one of the following:
Create a page for the app and get users to like it, and then use the page to post updates for the game's user
Use app to user requests to alert the user that something has happened - this will increment a counter in the user's bookmark for your app to bring them back to it
Obtain the user's email address from the API (needs the email permission) and email them directly.
Posting to user's timelines (/USER_ID/feed) automatically each time you have news to share will result in the spam filters shutting down your app very quickly indeed (bear in mind this will appear to all their friends as a message 'from' that user)
I have the following case:
My client already has a facebook page with timeline and a decent amount of likes.
My job is to integrate facebook comments and facebook like to their website. For this I need an App ID, which I can easily get by creating a new app on developers.facebook.com
What I want is to somehow connect this app to the client's page so;
it shows up on their insights report
maybe likes and interactions get connected to the client's page instead of an app
I have already spent many hours trying to get this to work, but I don't yet see a way.
I can imagine that when I create a new App and then add a page to that app I have them connected. Though my client's company isn't an "app", it's a real-world business. Also, this way my clients loses all their likes on their current page.
Please help me figuring out the right way to do this.
Thanks in advance.
If you have a Pretty URL, you can go to http://graph.facebook.com/{yourpagename}. The App ID of the page will be right there at the top. If you do NOT have a Pretty URL for the page, the App ID of the page is the number at the very end of its URL.
There's no way to link an existing app and page (by 'link' i mean mark the page as being the page which represents that app) - you can of course install an app on to your page as a tab, or use an app to manage the page and post updates, etc, the documentation for both of which is on the main developer site
Login to your page >> Click on Settings > Click on Apps from left panel > Select your page app >> Go to the bottom
Here you can find User ID
I developed a Facebook app for my company. My app has over 10 monthly users, so I thought this was just a delay with FB rebuilding their search index. However, my app went live in February, and it still doesn't show up in the search. People can, however, play the game by using the canvas URL.
Also, users who have already added my app can find it in the FB search, just not any new players.
Sandbox mode is disabled.
Is there another setting somewhere that I need to change in order to make the app searchable?
Any other suggestions? I'm all Googled out. :(
The app needs to have had over 10 MAU for between 2 and 4 weeks before the search index is rebuilt to include your app; this is mentioned on the main Apps on Facebook documentation:
When your App reaches 10 monthly active users it will be automatically queued to be included in the search index the next time we rebuild our search index (we rebuild every 2-4 weeks). After the index is rebuilt your app will be discoverable via Search.