Publishing content directly to a Facebook page
The Social Media Publisher is used to post status updates about your content to Facebook profiles and pages. You can also post content items directly to a Facebook page.
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Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps
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Click Create new App.
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A form opens. Enter values for the following parameters:
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App Name:
This is the name of your application that is displayed at the end of each post. For example, your company name.
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App Namespace:
This is name that is used to access Facebook Insights information. It is recommended that a unique name is used for each application.
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Click Continue.
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A configuration screen for your application is displayed. Select Page Tab under Select how your app integrates with Facebook and complete the following parameters:
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Page tab name:
Enter the name for the page tab.
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Page tab URL:
This is the URL to the content item you want to add to the Facebook page.
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Secured Page tab URL:
This is an https version of the Page tab URL.
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Click Save Changes.
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Click Authorize to bind the credentials to a specific social network account.
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To post your content to the Facebook page, use the following URL where APP_ID is the Application-Id of Facebook Page Tab application:
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=APP_ID&next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Flogin_success.html
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Publishing content directly to a Facebook page requires a Secured Page tab URL to be provided. This means that your server must be SSL enabled.