I need to ask where can I set up Bookmark URL for my new application right now?
There was few changes few days ago and it is impossible to put it anywhere. Because of that, I can't set sending invitations to the FanPage TAB with application, it's always redirecting invited users to the canvas.
Maybe somebody know how to do it right now?
It has disappeared from the updated App Settings dashboard.
What you can do is set up your canvas URL (I'm assuming you're only using this application for the Page tab) to redirect to the Page tab URL.
The contents of your canvas URL would look something like this:
"http://www.facebook.com/PAGENAME?sk=app_1234567890"
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how can I embed my app in my facebook page in a way as here:
www.facebook.com/SzkolaSTRAMA?v=app_323694844330149
I have attached the app to my page using the magic url:
http://facebook.com/add.php?api_key=&pages=1&page=
and tried to open somehow the app within using the v parameter, but it seems it is not that. Can someone give me a clue? Thanks.
Now you can add an application to a page in a page tab by going to below mentioned url
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
You need to change "app_id" with your app_id, you can find it in app settings, "Your_url" should be replaced with your application complete url for e.g. "https://www.facebook.com/TestApplication?sk=app_389610254390000"
after changing values press enter, If you are admin of any Facebook page then you will be taken to a screen where you can select the page, after completion of this step your app will be added to page tab.
For further clarification go to this link
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
YOUR_URL should be replaced with your Canvas url.
(The page that is being loaded into iframe on facebook)
APP_ID with id of the Page Tab application.
Explained also here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10535905/1520297
I've provided my canvas app with all required for publishing actions to Facebook. After I publish an action I have a message like "John made an action over {SomeObject}" in my timeline. Everything works OK but the {SomeObject} i click opens in a window, not in facebook iframe where my app usually works. The URL of this link is rendered like this:
https://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php?app_id={my_app_id}&method=permissions.request&redirect_uri={my_object_url}&response_type=code&display=page&auth_referral=1&fb_private_mode_enc={some_text_string}
What should i do to make my clicked object open in facebook iframe, not window? Can i somehow change display=page to display=iframe in this URL?
Thanks!
I've been having this problem too - I'd like to be able to direct a user straight to my canvas app. Added to this, unless the meta in {my_object_url}'s HTML lines up with what Facebook expects to see, the link resolves to a "this app is having a problem" dialog.
A possible workaround for you, not so much a 100% answer: allow the redirect, but in the meta of the page being redirected to, do an HTML refresh back to the app canvas? This would redirect users back to the app.
If you needed to direct them to a specific page of the app, you could use an app_data signed request addition to the canvas-redirect URL.
Hope this helps. Not a silver bullet though.
PG
For example, I have the application starting at index.php. The user navigates to about.php within the iframe, likes that specific page and shares it. What would the structure of the url look like to take people clicking from their own timeline into that page of my iframe?
Thanks!
This depends, if you are on a FanPage it does not work (directly)
on a App Page its easy. You simpley dont link relative in your iframe, but outside to the facebook page itself, for this to work your Canvas url needs to be a directory.
Then you can link to ie. http://apps.facebook.com/yourcanvas/about.php (dont forget the target _top)
On a FanPage the only way i know is to use beside the tab setting, a canvas app page.
in your share code you set the app page as target (with parameter) and on the app page you set a session variable for the desired target and then redirect back to the fanpage.
on the fanpage you look if you have an target value in your session, if so redirect the user.
Okay, allow me to say first off that I am working on developing my first FB app/page tab at the moment. I'm not looking for anything fancy yet, just workability.
That being said, I have managed to create a FB app that loads from the hosting requested, and displays it under the app page. I have also made it so that I can add it as a page tab to FB pages. What I am having an issue with is that clicking on the page tab for the app, it does not show any content in the iframe on the page, though it shows on the canvas page for the app.
So, my question is, do you have any ideas as to why it might be showing on a canvas iframe and not the page tab iframe? I am currently guessing that it has to do with how the signed request is processed, but am not completely sure. I am using the PHP SDK for FB given here: https://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/ for the FB-related functions, and am tracing through that currently for where I might be going wrong.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks. =)
I had the same problem and was able to solve it by providing different (http vs https) URLs for the secure and non-secure canvas and page tab URLs. Just remove post the non-secure URL for the non-secure canvas/page tab URL fields. I believe this is because Facebook doesn't check to see if the user has secure browsing turned on until after they have logged in.
You could try to change the order of appear of the app tab; it worked for me.
I am working on web application with .net 3.5 using C# facebook SDK. Loading page inside Page Tab iframe with some information, and input button, on click of button i am doing auth.Authorize() with some permissions, FB Permission window opens fine, but once user click on allow button it is redirecting to application canvas page instead of Page tab.
Is there anything i am missing?
Regards
Imran
Answer is to set auth.ReturnUrlPath which will bring user back to selected tab in facebook page. If your application is being added to multiple pages, then you can find out current pageid from "signed request" and set correct ReturnUrlPath, and attach ?sk=app_YOUR_APP_ID as querystring to ReturnUrlPath so current tab will be selected. your return path will look something similar to : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=YOUR_PAGE_ID&sk=app_YOUR_APP_ID (make sure you handle both http and https)
This worked for me, hopefully will work for someone too.
-Ims
Facebook C# SDK doesnt support tabs.
Only canvas apps are supported.