I'm using the xfbml Add To Timeline social plugin (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/add-to-timeline/), but when I click it the permissions dialog I get just says "Access my basic information" and sure enough it isn't actually getting me the publish_actions permission I need to use the timeline. I tried specifying the perm explicitly on the tag like so:<fb:add-to-timeline show-face="false" mode="button" perms="publish_actions"></fb:add-to-timeline> but no luck.
This was working fine yesterday and suddenly now it isn't. I'm wondering if this has something to do with my adding and removing my app from my facebook account multiple times?
This was driving me crazy for a long while. In my case, I fixed it by enabling 'Enhanced Auth Dialog' under the Advanced tab of my app settings.
When asking for publish_actions Facebook shows a preview screen of what sort of aggregations your app will create on their timeline.
In other words, if the preview isn't working, Facebook won't ask for the permission so you're asking in vain. Facebook doesn't make this clear in the docs, but everything needs to be perfectly setup with your app on Facebook to get this to work right.
Enable Enhanced Auth Dialong in the advanced settings of the app
Make sure you have at least one action and one object set up in the open graph section
For each action you must have an aggregation set up.
If you do not do all of these steps, there can be no preview and so Facebook won't ask for permission no matter what.
I faced the same issue. I fixed it by doing the below mentioned two thiings.
a. Enabled 'Enhanced Auth dialog' from 'advanced' setting of the app.
b. blanked 'user and friend permissions' along with 'extended permissions' tab on 'auth dialog' page.
I am not sure what it did, but it started working.
BUT.. Even though the authentication works and the posts are reflecting on my timeline, the add-to-timeline button still shows, 'Add to Timeline'..
The other trick i used is to keep checking the app permissions under account setting tab of my profile page.
Hope this helps !
From Apps -> Settings -> Auth Dialog:
While in Open Graph Beta, the 'publish_actions' permission can only be
requested from developers and test users of your app. The
'publish_actions' permission will be ignored if requested from any
other user.
I had the Enhanced Auth Dialog enabled in the Advanced Settings, yet this did not work until I added a Aggregation Preview for the activity. Strange, but true.
Hope this helps.
The publish_actions permission appears only if the user has added timeline OR if your app is a game. I suppose it will also be available for apps when Timeline will be rolled out to all users...
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I am making a server-to-server Facebook 'app' so that some of the news articles we post to our own website can be posted on our own Facebook page too. I have read 14 squintillion pages of documentation, but cannot find how to get the publish_pages permission for myself or the app.
I have coaxed the app through the review process, and got the manage_pages permission allowed. I thought I had to submit all over again, to get publish_pages too, but the documentation says no. Apparently anyone appearing in the Roles for the app can grant the necessary permissions.
I have set myself up as admin for the app, yet when trying to get a token using the Facebook developer tools, I am never shown publish_pages. So even if I create a non-expiring token (my end goal) it is rejected with a message about the lack of publish_pages.
Shouldn't I be seeing more permissions listed here?
I'm sure I've read all relevant parts of the official documentation, plus StackOverflow answers and several unofficial walk-throughs, but I cannot work out what I am missing...
I thought I had to submit all over again, to get publish_pages too,
You do.
but the documentation says no. Apparently anyone appearing in the Roles for the app can grant the necessary permissions.
That is for apps in dev mode. Any of those users can grant the permission to your app, while it is in dev mode. But whatever you publish through your app, will only be visible to this group of users only, and not to the general public.
For the content to be visible to everyone, your app needs to be in live mode.
Before you can ask people - even those with a role in the app - for publish_pages when your app is in live mode, you need to submit that permission for review.
i have read all the answers ( i could find on the matter), and they say, if you are a developer, tester or admin of the application, you should be able to test the app without any problem. I have tried as a admin of the app, developer, tester etc (all the roles given in the developer dashboard) no luck, next i have tried with the test users, still no luck, when i ask the user for the permission (publish_stream), the popup always says
Submit for Login Review Some of the permissions below have not been
approved for use by Facebook.
I have setup the "privacy policy link", i have uploaded the application icon, entered the application description, still no luck. in the mean time, the other two permissions i ask (user_photos and email) work with no problem.
I can't get what i am doing wrong. has anyone had problems like this?how did he manage to solve them? any help will be much appreciated.
P.S the only thing i haven't tried is to submit the freaking app for review, but the app is far from done, so i think, the review will be rejected
You really don´t need to go through the review process for testing, unapproved permissions work for every Admin, Developer or Tester of the App. publish_stream is deprecated though, what you probably want is publish_actions.
If it still does not work with an Admin/Dev/Tester and the publish_actions permission, i´d suspect a bug. In that case you could report it: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/
This question has been asked many times before, but they all seem to relate to problems before the Open Graph was 'opened'. As a new user, I also can't make this question useful, i.e no images or links. If you want to see the images I've posted, you'll have to copy and paste.
First of all, my Action is approved.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/hAFHr.png
Additionally, the action shows as being available to all users.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/IrrWW.png
publish_actions has been added to the Auth.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/PdJiA.png
I also have objects and aggregations setup correctly.
The auth preview also shows the correct settings (although the dialog currently doesn't stay open to see it, it used to).
When I try and connect with FB to the site, I don't see publish_actions. Instead I see the second stage of the dialog, for publish_stream. I set this by mistake the first time I saved the app, but quickly changed it.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/n819f.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/gkXfg.png
This is where I think it gets even stranger. If I take a look at the FB profile for one of the app developers, and click through too the app from there, while not registered, I see the correct permissions.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/SsOVI.png
Yet another twist to the tale, which makes it even harder for me to debug, is that it seems since playing with the aggregations, I can't even get publish_actions permissions despite being listed as an app admin. (I've read that every action needs an aggregation before FB will process any actions sent by the server.)
/**/ FB.ApiServer._callbacks.ff2f1615c({"error":{"message":"(#200) Requires extended permission: publish_actions or App must be on whitelist","type":"OAuthException","code":200}});
That's the error I get when I complete the action on the site, http://purple.fr/boutique
Have I missed a setting somewhere? Have I done something I shouldn't? Should any of this be controlled in the code on the site?
When a user connects to your site, you should be asking for the publish_actions permission instead of the publish_stream permission. The referral dialog settings (where you already ask for publish_actions) only works when a user clicks on the action from within Facebook. It won't work for users already on your website.
In your login function (FB.login), make sure you add the permission publish_actions.
That aside, it looks like it's all working now.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/jAosv.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Wbgf5.png
Facebook official docs mention that the publish_actions permissions is needed to publish on your FB stream open graph features (actions + objects).
Well, I'm getting a problem to make it work. On the docs it is mentioned that these features are rolling out slowly to all users and will be available soon, but for now, they should be available for the developer and the test users (at least until my actions/objects are approved). Well, this doesn't work, I get an OAuthException ("(#200) Requires extended permission: publish_actions or App must be on whitelist").
So to make it work, I must first go to the Graph API explorer, grant myself manually a permission (publish_actions) to get the token and only then it works(maybe it is buggy?).
The other option is to categorize my app as "game" and then it behaves as expected. They also say we should enable the Enhanced Auth Dialog, so I did, but that didn't help.
Bump
Edit
This was actually in main docs (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/tutorial/#authenticate)
To make it work, just use the FBML for the login button with the scope:
<fb:login-button width="200" max-rows="1" scope="publish_actions">
</fb:login-button>
Works only for test users and developers instantly, but I guess that when my actions/objects will be approved, I will be able to roll this to all of my users.
So here's the thing, I can't ask for 'publish_actions' permission for other users than Developers and Test Users.
And when I tried posting an action with a regular user I got an error like this one:
"(#200) Requires extended permission: publish_actions"
Also from the facebook documentation:
"While in Open Graph Beta, the 'publish_actions' permission can only be requested from developers and test users of your app. The 'publish_actions' permission will be ignored if requested from any other user."
.......
"Open Graph is still in beta. Though you can submit Open Graph actions for review in the Dev App, actions will not be approved until Timeline is available to all users."
Any clues on when this would be fully available for real apps ?
Open Graph is still in beta, and will launch soon after Timeline has been rolled out. Only then will you be able to request publish_actions for non-developers of your app.
go to the app's open graph
edit open graph
click the get code button
you gotta
confirm -> api explorer
and run app
but you will have the role developer
tester do not work.
because tester can't edit apps property.