I am using Facebook Connect on an external website. I don't want to show an App Profile Page on Facebook for this app. The main reason is because I have a Fan Page of the same name on Facebook and I am trying to get "Likes" for the Fan Page.
But when you search for the Fan Page by name both the App Profile Page and the Fan Page show up in the search results. And there would be nothing of use to show on the App Profile Page since all I am using it for is Facebook Connect.
Is there a setting in the app setting to not show the profile page? Or better yet, to use the Fan Page as the app profile page?
There currently doesn't exist a way to disable your App Profile Page or associate your app to a Facebook Page. We are planning to enable this soon after f8.
Yeah, I hated this… so I tossed up a super simple redirect app. Toss this up as your default tab for the application and put the link to the page.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=127885633976737
Also let me know if there's an error. :)
You can migrate app pages to regular fan pages now (go to your app page for instructions). App pages will be disabled by February.
Removing App Profile Pages By February 1, 2012, we are removing App
Profile Pages. You can migrate Likes and the Vanity URL of this Page
to an existing Facebook Page with the same name and of Product/App
category.
Click here to migrate to an existing Facebook Page
Unfortunately not. We ended up asking all of our fans to move over to become fans of our application page and then deleted our fan page. The only thing you can do is set your app in sandbox mode but then obviously nobody except developers can access it.
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Can this be true, or am I missing something, big time? It seems there's no way to access a Facebook app's profile page on the Facebook mobile site (m.facebook.com)?
I thought I wouldn't need to create a separate fan page for my app now that the app's profile page kind of looks and feels like a regular fan page. But if it's not accessible in Facebook mobile, then it's no use to me whatsoever - the thing is, I'm developing a native iPhone app, and the Facebook app is just for sharing the results, promoting and building fanbase - in other words I need a "Visit app's Facebook page" button in my iPhone app, and obviously the link should open in m.facebook.com, not the full www.facebook.com site.
I have no problem opening regular fan pages in Facebook mobile on my iPhone, or opening app's profile pages in the regular Facebook site. But I can't seem to be able to access any app's profile page in Facebook mobile. Please tell me I'm just dumb and there's of course a way to do this.
Here's a few ways that I was able to make it work.
Named pages
m.facebook.com/coke
m.facebook.com/facebook
m.facebook.com/yupiq
Applications
m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=150980384961454
Does that solve it for you?
EDIT:
I was unable to get the m.facebook.com/{id} to work for anything.
Why is it that the apps we developed do not show any content when we are viewing them in Page mode? When I switch to my personal profile everything shows up, but if I'm in my Business Profile, my canvas page is blank?
This is a bug/desired-behavior of Profile Tab applications while using Facebook as page, status of this can be tracked on http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/141770462584785
Update:
Bug is marked as fixes but the fix doesn't really resolve the issue. Currently if you try to visit Application Tab on Page you will be prompted to switch back to use Facebook as user:
You are using Facebook as PAGE_NAME
To access this page, you'll need to switch from using Facebook as your page to using Facebook as yourself.
I have created a Facebook page for our business, and I created a Facebook App to get a AppID in order to use it in the Facebook plugins.
I've noticed that a Facebook App has a page which looks the same as a Facebook Page.
Which one should I use for promoting to the public? The App Page or normal Page?
You should be promoting your business page. That's what people will be searching for.
Essentially, all objects within the Facebook sphere are represented by a Page. Your app gets one of it's own which, if you were so inclined, would mean you could use it to promote your application. I would also recommend locking down your application's Page so the wall doesn't get filled with spam and other dubious and possibly malicious links. You can do this in the Page settings.
Promote the normal page(www.facebook.com/pages/yourpagename). The application page is where you would promote the application you built but it sounds like you just need a appid.
A significant difference between an app page vs a normal page: the app page does not show the number of people who 'like' it. It shows the number of MAU instead.
You have to promote the normal Page. In the normal page you can add a tab that link your application.
One other bit of information: If you create an ad in facebook which links to your page then it will have a like button and will show the current number of people which like your page when it is served to people.
If you have an app then it will not have the like button, but if people use your app then when an ad is served to someone that has a friend that used the app they will see a social context in the ad 'jonny B used(or played if a game) your [app/game name]' at the bottom of the ad.
I have created a Facebook app that runs in an iFrame. I want to find a way to host this app on the user's home page instead of visiting my app page. Can this be done?
No, I believe that Facebook removed this functionality a year or so ago with a redesign of the platform.
Is it possible to integrate application developed in php sdk with the Fans Page (Show application in Fans page)?
Please let me know the eg. how to achieve this?
Applications can be added as a tab on Fan Pages, you can't "integrate" it into the page.
The "Facebook Integration" tab of your app config has a section to define this. You'll need to specify a URL beneath your app domain that contains the content to load. This tab must be FBML-compliant (though FB plans to migrate these to iFrames).
IMPORTANT: Facebook has eliminated Tabs on user profiles. They are now for Facebook Pages only.