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12 years 1 month ago #20175 by emcguire
This may have been addressed already and I didn't see it, but Im sure you are aware of the Facebook "timeline" for pages goes into effect on Mar 31. They are doing away with several things including "like" brickwalls and default landing tabs. the App canvas pages are now full width instead of the 550 pixels we've been using.

how does this change effect our JFBC? will there be an update?


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12 years 1 month ago #20180 by mtk
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emcguire wrote: This may have been addressed already and I didn't see it, but Im sure you are aware of the Facebook "timeline" for pages goes into effect on Mar 31. They are doing away with several things including "like" brickwalls and default landing tabs. the App canvas pages are now full width instead of the 550 pixels we've been using.

how does this change effect our JFBC? will there be an update?


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Hello Eric,
thank you for pointing this out.
we are aware of those changes and we are working on new releases to include as many of them as possible.
we will issue an announcement when a new release is out and what was included in it.

My guess is that not all of those changes will be out with the upcoming v4.2, but maybe for the 4.3.

Mati
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12 years 1 month ago #20669 by kiwi2b
Replied by kiwi2b on topic New Facebook Changes
Thanks for the headsup Eric and Mtk! I can see it coming, but be good to have a summary of the changes though.

By 'doing away with default landing pages', you mean we can't direct visitors to a tab of our choice anymore?? So for all Facebook pages now, everybody arrives at the timeline, correct? A big change. How do we promote the canvass page?

And what do you mean by 'like brickwalls', I guess the 'can't see the page unless you click the like button' functionality, right? What do we replace it with??

I'm sure sourcecoast will think of something, quickly! :D
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12 years 1 month ago #20673 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic New Facebook Changes
It's true that you won't be able to select a default Page Tab to show the user. The timeline will always be what the user sees when they visit.

However, most of the other features should work as before. Page Tabs still exist, though in a different location. The 'Reveal' feature still works, though the user will have to visit the tab explicitly for the Reveal Page to show. While at first, this sounds bad.. and in some ways it is.. the new Tabs are called out much more (in the Timeline banner at the top) and if you name it something catchy, like "Coupons!" or even "Learn More", you may get more people who want to see your tab to see it. Once there, the reveal Page will still work to try to get the user to click the Like button.

Other notes:
* Page Tabs still can have a unique link, so if you want to direct users to a specific Page Tab, you can use that link from your website or in promos.
* Page Tabs now can be larger than 520px (thankfully!). This too can be enabled in your FB App.
* For Canvas apps, there's already a setting in your Facebook Application to choose the fixed width or fluid. You can enable that now.
Neither of those changes should affect the behavior of the 4.1 release of JFBConnect, just so you know.

We do have a planned release (v4.2) for April. It will have a lot of new things, and certainly will have any fixes for problems that may crop up on or after March 31st. If anything too huge comes up and 4.2 isn't ready, we have no problem releasing a new 4.1.x release.

Hope that explains everything, but feel free to ask away. If you think there's anything we missed, let us know.. but we do everything we can to stay on top of Facebook's changes (of which there are many)!

Thanks,
Alex
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