Autopost on first login

Yes, it was removed due to policy changes from Facebook. There's a very easy PHP call that can be made if you implement a way to notify the user of the post to their wall.

For Open Graph Actions, please check out our Open Graph Actions for Joomla configuration guide. You can create an action and then use the {JFBCAction id=xx text=Button Name} tag to add a button the user can click to post to their wall.

Just so you know, Facebook has already said that they will not approve login or registration actions as they aren't very socially relevant. The actions need to have more context to them than just "I logged in".

I hope that helps explain, but if not, let me know.

Thanks,
Alex

There isn't yet, but it something we'll likely have in the v5.2 release. There is likely some CSS that I could muster up that would make it into an image as well, if you'd be interested in tinkering a little.

Let me know if you'd like that.

Thanks,
Alex

How can we have a default message in the pop up (the user may edit) while triggering an open graph action?

You can't. Facebook doesn't allow pre-filled messages, per their Terms of Service. They want either a) no message at all with the action or b) the user to intentionally enter a message. That helps them determine the context and importance of the action for the user. You can read more on the Facebook Using Actions page. Specifically, for the message parameters:

Allows users to write a personalized message attached to this action. You can only use this when the text is entered by the user and not pre-populated. You can mention users and pages inline using mention tagging.

We actually need that as part of an ongoing project.
It'll be great if we can create an image button for triggering an open graph action.

I'll have to get back to you on this. I just did some quick investigation, and it's not a simple CSS line you could add for an image. I'll let you know what we find, but it may take a few days to get you an answer.

Thanks,
Alex

Hmm. I can see what you mean about that. Right now, the button will always show and will try to get the permission from the user to allow posting actions for the user. If they don't have an account, it will ask them to create one.. that's a feature we thought would be nice. However, if your New User Redirection is not set to "Same Page" or you have the registration mode set to "Normal Registration" so the account isn't automatically created, the user will be directed somewhere away from the page they clicked on. In either case, when they come back to the page, they'd have to click the action button again.

I'm not sure the best way to fix the above scenario. Obviously switching to Automatic Registration with Same Page redirection gets it very close to correct (though the popup won't appear automatically). That may be something we could investigate fixing sooner than later. The other settings would be more difficult to fix quickly.

Alternatively, we could hide the Action button to users that aren't logged in.

Let me know if that gives you any ideas and we'll help how we can, but I'm not sure we'll be able to easily fix things in this release.. it may have to wait for at least v5.2.0.

Thanks,
Alex