Got stuck somewhere configuring JFBC Open Graph

There isn't a direct replacement for the Share button of old. WIth Open Graph, Facebook gives you (the site owner) the power to describe your pages and have more control over what a user's feed post about your page will look like. You can set the title, description, and image that are used when a user clicks the Like button. For the user, when they click the Like button, they get a comment box popup and a "Post to Wall" button where they can add their own comment and choose to post the Like on their wall.

The closest thing available now is a different type of popup for posting to a user's feed, which you can see below:
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/
With that, you (the admin) still have to specify the title, description, and image that are used. The user still has the option to add a comment and click a button to post to their wall. There is no method to select an image though. Additionally, since that's not using the 'Like' button, there is no counter of popularity of that page. It's a one-time use share, whereas the Like button can draw more users in by having a higher Like count.

Hope that explains. Of course if you have any questions, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Paul,
Hopefully you don't need to know too much about the underlying Facebook API unless you want to develop or add new features. There is a lot to learn, no doubt, but for the social widgets (Like, Comment) or features we already support in JFBConnect, you can always rely on us to try and help explain and clarify whenever we can.

As to your specific question on why you can't Like from a Page, that's a restriction from Facebook. FB wants all Like's to be 'organic' and tries to prevent abuse as much as possible. Since one user can create unlimited Pages, those Pages can't be allowed to then go Like everything for the user. It'd be ripe for abuse, and would ruin the Like counts for a lot of sites. By tying Like's to a "Real" person, they eliminate that problem and it's much easier for them to track abuse.

Hope that explains why Pages can't Like content on sites. If you need more explanation or help though, just let us know.

Alex

Yup, using a single user profile can help with some issues, but there's big limitations on that as well. First off, friends are 2-way connections, which means you'd have to approve people whereas anyone can 'Like' a Page. I don't know what the current limit is, but I think there's a cap of friends around 1000. Also, the JFBCFan module, to show the stream and 'friends' of a Page only works with Pages.

So, Facebook definitely wants people to use Pages for businesses, products, etc and Profiles for 'friendships' only. What you choose to use is what is best for your needs.

As for the og:description, that's done automatically be JFBConnect if you haven't gone into the Open Graph settings and created an "Object" for the page you're looking at. The default for Joomla articles is the first 10 words. If you create a new Object and set the category to your top-level category, you can then set the Description settings (in the right-hand side) to be 50 words or 500 characters or whatever would work best for you.

If you need help with the above, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Paul,
Sorry I didn't get back to this post. I think we're covering your question in the other topic you created:
www.sourcecoast.com/forums/jfbconnect/jf...siness-facebook-page

I'm going to close this post so it doesn't get too confusing and we can continue the discussion of this topic in that other thread.

Thanks,
Alex