For example, the following URL shows the app in a tab:
https://www.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325
But when on a mobile device it redirects to the mobile site and does not show the tab or even have a link to it:
https://m.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325
I even have the application tab set as the Default Landing Tab for this page, but cannot get the pap to show for the page. Is there another format we need to develop for the App to support mobile? Ideally we would like to show the tab on iPhone app and other mobile viewing.
If you're in control of the link the user clicks on to reach your fanpage/pagetab-combination, then try adding a GET parameter ref=ts
h++ps://www.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325&ref=ts
Apparently this prevents the redirect to the mobile version of facebook.
There's not currently any way to see App-provided Page tabs on the m.facebook.com site
Mobile web apps are supported, but they're not tied to the Page and need to be manually linked-to or bookmarked, the tab functionality simply doesn't exist now.
Currently you can develop application functions such as app authorisation but sadly no, you can't display standard iFramed tab apps, I suspect this is because of slow 3G data speeds and the fact that Facebook wouldn't want the mobile experience being any slower than it already is (dependent on external hosting etc).
Many of my larger clients are begging for it. The only workaround I use is to build an external page with the same content used in the iFrame - then you can direct users to the tab or mobile users to an external link.
https://www.facebook.com/pagename/app_000000000000000?ref=page_internal
as of now ref=page_internal is working as a work around.
You can redirect Mobile users to a specific mobile website, and have desktop users redirected to your page tab app.
Detailed instructions for doing this are available here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15860533/121285
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I followed the instructions in this post: Mobile users unable to access Facebook page tab to try and get my Custom Page Tab to appear in mobile browsers, and mobile Facebook apps for Android and IPhone. However, it does not work. I fear that all these posts are dated and no longer apply to Facebook API 2.7.
Currently the Page Tab application works fine in a PC browser, except there seems to be no way to make this Page Tab the default one. That would be ideal. More problematic though is that I can't get the tab to appear at all in mobile browser or mobile FB application. Furthermore if I go to my redirect page: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/Redirection.aspx?fb the redirect doesn't seem to work on m.facebook.com. The page comes back as unauthorized or unavailable.
Is there a 2016 way of solving this issue? I have the beginnings of a slideshow at: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/TabLibertyLive2016.aspx which I want to put on a custom tab that is accessible to all. The facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/libertylive2016. The custom tab is called "Liberty Live 2016"
Thanks In Advance!
I guess the answer is that it is impossible. Pretty pathetic indictment of Facebook's technology.
I followed the instructions in this post: Mobile users unable to access Facebook page tab to try and get my Custom Page Tab to appear in mobile browsers, and mobile Facebook apps for Android and IPhone. However, it does not work. I fear that all these posts are dated and no longer apply to Facebook API 2.7.
Currently the Page Tab application works fine in a PC browser, except there seems to be no way to make this Page Tab the default one. That would be ideal. More problematic though is that I can't get the tab to appear at all in mobile browser or mobile FB application. Furthermore if I go to my redirect page: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/Redirection.aspx?fb the redirect doesn't seem to work on m.facebook.com. The page comes back as unauthorized or unavailable.
Is there a 2016 way of solving this issue? I have the beginnings of a slideshow at: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/TabLibertyLive2016.aspx which I want to put on a custom tab that is accessible to all. The facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/libertylive2016. The custom tab is called "Liberty Live 2016"
Thanks In Advance!
I guess the answer is that it is impossible. Pretty pathetic indictment of Facebook's technology.
I have a Facebook app the currently consists of 3 elements - an App on Facebook, Mobile Web, and a Page Tab.
Currently if I use the app URL it detects whether I am on a mobile or not and directs me to either the app on Facebook or the mobile web site.
What I'd like it to do is always show the app in the context of the page tab. Is there anyway to force this?
I tried looking at whether I could use the page tab URL directly and have that redirect to the mobile but depending on how I've linked it either returns a 404 or just takes you to the Facebook page. I appreciate I could do my own mobile detection but I thought I'd check if I'm missing something in Facebook first.
I wrote an explanation of how to do this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14434072/create-facebook-page-tab-and-publish-template-on-it/14455665#14455665
Hope this is what you are after!
I got a Facebook Page Tab App (using Timeline). It works fine in desktop version of Facebook, but when its Wall Post is clicked in Facebook App, it returns "The page you requested was not found" and forwards to an inaccessible link:
https://m.facebook.com/4oh4.php?id=282832318433409&_rdr
How come? I don't expect mobile version will be the same as desktop version, but I don't expect it reports the page cannot be found.
Page tabs apps are not supported (as of April 2012 anyway) on mobile browsers - mobile apps are, but they're not tied to the Page and need to be manually linked-to or bookmarked, the tab functionality simply doesn't exist now.
Tabs aren't supported via the app or mobile site. Best you could do is add the query parameter "ref=ts" to prevent the page from switching to mobile. It helps in the browser but not the app itself.
So add ?ref=ts to the end of your app url and at least mobile users can see it in their browser.
http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/a/10833366/461119
You can work around this problem by using a Canvas Page to redirect mobile users to a mobile site and desktop users to the page tab.
Detailed instructions here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15860533/121285
You can access to your app using the next link https://apps.facebook.com/YOUR-APP-ID
In this way, you can access from a desktop or a mobile with no problem
I currently have a custom app on Facebook that works fine on desktop PC's (full version of Facebook). As you would know you can't access custom apps from mobile devices and it redirects you to the wall of the page.
Is there a way to redirect them to a mobile web app if they try to access the app from a mobile device? So that way when people share links to the app I can at least show them something.
I saw the Mobile Web URL option in my app but am unsure on how this will actually work.
You are referring to the "mobile tab access" Vitrue announced this week? :)
What they are doing is this (basically):
Create a special link to the tab (mydomain.com/tablink1 or something, NOT the ?sk=app_xxxx URL in the browser bar)
On that link they have code which does a conditional redirect
If it's a regular browser/device, redirect to the tab (?sk=app_xxxx)
If it's a mobile browser/device, redirect to an alternate mobile webpage with the same content as the tab (mydomain.com/mobilecontent1)
The redirect is not on the actual tab, since the mobile browsers will never get there. It has to be on a separate page.
So if they try to access the tab on a mobile device with the regular tab URL they will not get redirected. It only works if they go to the special redirect URL. Vitrue's application publishes that special redirect URL to the Page wall.
It works very well to make sure everything you post to your Wall (which mobile users can see) does not break, but it does not really provide a redirect for mobile users trying to get to your tab.
That's the best we can do right now though, until Facebook actually comes up with a mobile tab solution (bug filed here: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/264010470314544)
Good luck!