Facebook Application Profile Page Migration

December 21st, 2011 • Facebook
Tags: 2012, application, facebook, migration, page, profile

Facebook migrates Application profile pages with Facebook pages. It means, you will have no longer an application page after 1 Feb 2012. And nowadays, you can see a warning message in your application profile page below:

It comes with 2 questions that how can i communicate with my app user community? and how can users add my application to their facebook pages? (if it is compitable with page tabs)

First question’s answer is easy, you can create your application community page from Developers section under application settings > Advanced tab > Contact Info part.

But the second question is a little bit tricky. Facebook forces developers to create their own badges for their users to add the application.

It is a code block which is:
<a href="#" onclick=window.open("http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_URL","PageTab","width=500,height=200");>Add To Page</a>

It redirects to a dialog popup for adding app to page. Also you can give this address directly to your customers:

http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_URL

You can have a look at Facebook Developer Blog post about this issue.

Also there is another blog post from HyperArts Blog.