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12 years 1 month ago #20555 by alzander
Above, you said "What I want is to post on the friends' walls."

The picture you show is of the application (Castleville) only posting to the user's own wall (Olympia). None of those are from another friend playing Castleville and posting that their activity to Olympia's wall.

If you want to post activity to your own wall, we have functions to be able to do that. However, again, you won't be able to post into another user's wall like you mentioned above.

Hope that clarifies, but if not, let me know,
Alex
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12 years 1 month ago #20556 by 7of9
Alex, are you sure? Did you take a good look at it? Didn't you see the posts of:
Andriana Papadopoulou
Julian Bogus
Rozalia Kazeraki
etc?

They are all made through Casleville.
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12 years 1 month ago #20558 by patmcn
I don't see anything but her own posts..

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12 years 1 month ago #20561 by 7of9
I attach the wall cap.
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12 years 1 month ago #20575 by alzander
Gotcha. A few notes on that:
* There are no 'widgets' to do that. The Send button, the Like button, comment box, etc. Those are widgets provided by Facebook, of which there are none to post something to a users wall.
* You can do that programmatically. With a few lines of code, you can post to any of the user's friends walls. To do so:
1) You'd need to know the friends Facebook User ID. That can be obtained in a few different ways either by asking the user, or going through all their friends (again, using some code to get their friends names)
2) You'd need the 'publish_stream' permission. JFBConnect asks for this automatically if you have the post to wall on login or register set, but you can also add it to the 'Additional Permission Requests' box in the configuration area to make sure it's requested.

If you wanted to build a whole form to show to the current user with their friends in a drop down, you could do something like the below:
bobbelderbos.com/2011/08/example-faceboo...ost-to-friends-wall/

JFBConnect will help with a lot of this.. you'd only need to start from the "Post To Wall" section, and there are things that JFBConnect would make simpler in the code samples they provide. Just pointing this out to show you what could be done, but that it's also not something that's as easy as a {JFBCsomething} tag.

Hope that explains a little. If you have more information on what exactly you want to do, that may help... automated post to a friend's wall when they view a page, a way for a user to 'recommend' an article to a specific friend, etc

Thanks,
Alex
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12 years 1 month ago #20576 by 7of9
I think the way {JFBCLiveStream} does the job (typing the friends' names one after the other) is a good way to do it.
But I was asking how to do it by using JFBConnect. I know there is a way to do it if I program all the code, but I do not have the time to do all the research.
That's why I ask if there is a way to do it by JFBConnect. I understand there is no way currently. Is it going to be implemented in the future and when?
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12 years 1 month ago #20586 by alzander
No, JFBConnect doesn't have that ability built in. I'm still unsure exactly what you're looking for. It sounds like you want a drop-down to select the users friends. What do you want to send? Any articles on the site, a specific URL, or any component page from your site? Should the user be able to include a message, or would it be predefined? Any information on what you're shooting for would help.

JFBConnect doesn't do any of that, but knowing what you're looking for helps us think about how we could implement something. It's not something we're planning to do and it's not requested often, but we do implement ideas that are suggested if we think a) others would like it/use it and b) we can make it simple enough that it doesn't perplex the average user to implement it.

We do have plans later this year to implement the new enhanced Open Graph features which will let you (the admin) set specific events in a users timeline when they do things on your site (I read an article, Bob just responded in the forums, etc). That won't be the same as posting in a friends wall, but just wanted to let you know that we are looking into more 'pushing' of events back to Facebook.

Hope that explains,
Alex
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12 years 1 month ago #20587 by 7of9
I thought I was clear. I want to propose a page (URL) to a friend or multiple friends, by posting into their walls. Adding a description is helpful but not mandatory.
However it is mandatory to have a report (an e-mail maybe) about the walls the URL is posted, with a date/time stamp and by which user.
This way I will know which facebook users support my site and propose it to their friends.
In essence I want a kind of propose this site to a friend functionality, since facebook has removed it.
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12 years 1 month ago #20595 by alzander
The devil, as they say, is in the details. You hadn't mentioned logging before. Doing that for each post, possibly with sending emails and other things, definitely take some effort to implement. Multiple friend select list also increases complexity.

Thanks for the description though. We've taken some notes on it and are always evaluating new ideas for future releases. Definitely appreciate the feedback, but I can't give any estimate or even guarantee that we'll implement this in the future.

Thanks,
Alex
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12 years 1 month ago #20597 by 7of9
Any "quick and dirty" solution without the logging?
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