Re-Submission of App Failed Approval

OK, I need to go through the FaceBook documentation more carefully and complete a step by step process of submitting this app.

General

Your instructions don't clearly explain how, why and where you're using the permissions you've requested. In order to approve your submission, we need to be able to reproduce the real experience that people will have when using your app.

Please provide the following information, in English, for each permission you are requesting:

A clear explanation of why your app requests this permission and how it is used to enhance a person's experience.
Detailed step-by-step instructions that will allow our review team to reproduce the use of this permission.
For sample explanations and step-by-step instructions please see our review documentation.

The following items were not reviewed due to general issues with your app:

Recommend - Recommend an Article
user_groups
manage_pages

I don't see where additional permissions are set on the Facebook App Details Page except at: "Configure App Center Permissions" and in that popup is the field "Auth Token Parameter" and it is populated with "Query String (?code=...)"

Is this a case where I have to delete and recreate the channel?

I am also not sure what to enter for "Explanation for Permissions." I thought we use user_groups and manage_pages to authenticate the test user and then remove them after we are done authenticating the test user. they are not present in Facebook Permissions -> Additional Permissions Request, this filed is empty. so where are these entered that Facebook is having an issue will additional permissions?

Here is what facebook said:

USER wrote: Several items from your last submission were not approved
To view your results and resubmit visit Items in Review.

Results from your last submission
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General
Your instructions don't clearly explain how, why and where you're using the permissions you've requested. In order to approve your submission, we need to be able to reproduce the real experience that people will have when using your app.

Please provide the following information, in English, for each permission you are requesting:

A clear explanation of why your app requests this permission and how it is used to enhance a person's experience.
Detailed step-by-step instructions that will allow our review team to reproduce the use of this permission.
For sample explanations and step-by-step instructions please see our review documentation.

The following items were not reviewed due to general issues with your app:
Recommend - Recommend an Article
user_groups
manage_pages

I want anyone that logs onto our site using their Facebook, twitter or Google+ credentials to be able to post articles, events, and products to their Facebook, twitter and Google+ pages, not to our's, we will post our own content to our own social media pages. That way I hope to get our articles wider exposure viewed and hopefully get more traffic to the site as a result. Google Search optimization alone just isn't going to cut it any more.

I created a Story called "Recommend an Article", with "Action Types" "Recommend" with "Associated Objects" of "Articles" and "Action Types" "Like" with "Associated Objects" of "Objects," and with "Object Types" of "Articles." I set the tenses for this "Recommend an Article" story so that the tense of the words "recommend" and "article" are always contextually correct. I don't know why I added the action type "Like," but I think that my reading suggested it might be a good idea at the time.

The capabilities that I checked for the "Recommend" action was "User Messages" and "Explicitly Shared." for the "Like" action I didn't check off any capabilities. The "Properties of each are similar, and have multiples for tags, images, and fb.videos checked; of course they are all "Optional"

I just wanted this big "Recommend" button at the top of every article, every event listing, and product in the MijoShop store, soon to be changed to VirtueMart,. that would be something unique and would catch the visitor attention a little more than perhaps the ubiquitous "Like" button, especially where products and events were concerned..

My "Recommend" button still only works with the "Test" user. Need to get this approved. I am busy with our Events Calendar right now and need to get that done before I come back to this unless you have a simple answer to the question in the previous post.

The "Recommend" button works with the Facebook Developers Test User, so I would expect that it would work if the app got approved.

I realize I need to spend some time on Facebook's Develops site. I am only inquiring here if you have a simple quick answer, that perhaps you weren't able to give before because I wasn't previously articulating effectively.

Thanks Alex, I already added explicitly_shared.

I will look where I have added user_groups and manage_pages and remove those from consideration.

You probably don't remember but back in February the site was taking ten seconds to load and every attempt at approval for the App failed because the process timed out after 4 seconds. That problem was resolved through a lot of optimization and CloudFlare. I don't know if the original permission publish_actions ever got approved, except that I can post to our Facebook page using the Front End Social Toolbar. Does that imply that publish_actions has been approved, because the post to this channel works when I am logged in with "Post on Social Network" permission?

Last question, how do you normally fill out the section "Explanation for Permissions" section that you have also included in the JFBConnect Interface?

Thanks Alex, I will take it from here. I will just add the explanation for the publish_actions permission and submit it again.

I wish all web developers took their work as seriously as you do; it is what makes Open Source the incredible working environment that it is.

There are still things I don't understand.

I don't see where I have manage_pages and publish_pages set on the Facebook developers site. here is what Facebook say about these permissions:

I would like to remove user_groups permission request, but I don't know where to do that.

manage_pages

Enables your app to retrieve Page Access Tokens for the Pages and Apps that the person administrates.

Apps need both manage_pages and publish_pages to be able to publish as a Page.

Review

If your app requests this permission Facebook will have to review how your app uses it. You can grant this permission on behalf of people listed within the Roles section of your App's Dashboard without review by Facebook.

If you want to use the Facebook Plugin for Wordpress (or a similar tool) to publish blog posts to your Facebook page, you do not need to submit for review as long as all those for whom you want to publish are listed in the Roles section of your App's Dashboard.

When submitting for review, please make sure your instructions are easily reproducible by our team. For example, if your Page Management Tool has its own authentication system, please ensure you provide a working login (such as a username/password) to allow our review team to use your tool and test this functionality.

Common Usage

Publish content to Pages owned by the people who use your app. Publishing also requires the publish_pages permission.
Help people manage the posts, comments and likes published to their Pages.


publish_pages

When you also have the manage_pages permission, gives your app the ability to post, comment and like as any of the Pages managed by a person using your app.

Apps need both manage_pages and publish_pages to be able to publish as a Page.

Publishing as an individual personal account is not possible with this permission. To post as an individual, please see the publish_actions permission.

Review

If your app requests this permission Facebook will have to review how your app uses it.

When requesting this permission via App Review, please make sure your instructions are easily reproducible by our team.

Common Usage

Let people explicitly publish content from your app to any of the Facebook Pages they manage from within a custom composer.
Seamlessly like and comment on behalf of the Pages a person manages.
Automatically publish stories without the person being aware or having control.
Pre-fill the message parameter of posts with content a person didn’t create, even if the person can edit or remove the content before sharing.

user_groups

Enables your app to read the Groups a person is a member of through the groups edge on the User object.

This permission does not allow you to create groups on behalf of a person. It is not possible to create groups via the Graph API.

Review

If your app requests this permission Facebook will have to review how your app uses it.

Limited Use

This permission is granted to apps building a Facebook-branded client on platforms where Facebook is not already available. For example, Android and iOS apps will not be approved for this permission. In addition, Web, Desktop, in-car and TV apps will not be granted this permission.

I amended my previous reply.