Social stream setup

kourkoutavlos,
No, direct access is not required. We're looking into a recent change by Facebook that may be part of the issue you're running into.

julian,
In the future, please post in a separate thread. While your message relates to the social streams feature, it's pretty unrelated to the issues that kourkoutavlos reported above and we're helping with.

I have enabled SCLogin , tried logged from the facebook login, and also the standard login.

Can you go to the "Usermap" area of JFBConnect and confirm that there is a link to the Facebook user you want to use there? The user must show up there for them to be selectable in the Channels feature. If the Facebook user is there, please post a screenshot of what you have setup in the channels area and what the Channel Owner popup displays when you click it.

Its very disappointing such a "basic" feature should be so complicated to setup.

Channels are basic, in that many people want the ability to post. However, it's very, very difficult to integrate with the different social networks and provide a clickable interface to configure things. While we try to make it as simple as possible, it will never be a 1-click ordeal. There's a lot of hoops to go through from each social network to ensure the user has the proper permissions to post.

also, when sharing articles from our website, the illustration posted with it is most times totally wrong.

The posts are created using Open Graph tags. JFBConnect tries to set these tags automatically, but there are methods to override them. Also, when you change Open Graph tags on the page, it can take Facebook days to scan and refresh their cached values.

If you need any more information on any of the points above, please create a new thread so that this one isn't trying to solve various problems for different users. We'll gladly help get you going however we can in that thread.

Thanks,
Alex

It sounds like you might be running into an issue affecting a subset of users that we recently found. The fix for that problem involves a small code change that will be included in the next release. To implement it now, please:
* Edit the /components/com_jfbconnect/libraries/provider/facebook/channel/fields/facebookpage.php file
* Around line 51, you'll see:Change publish_actions to publish_pages, like:
* Edit /components/com_jfbconnect/libraries/provider/facebook/channel/page.php
* Around line 49, you'll see:Change that to:Around line 65, you'll see:Change that to:
After those edits are made you will need to delete the Channel you created, re-make it and re-authenticate on the front-end of your site with the Facebook user. Let us know if you continue to have problems after doing this.

-Melissa

Yes, sorry for the mistype.

What isn't working for your client? The authentication loop, the permission option, etc? I can imagine one scenario where the looping would still occur. If you don't mind, can you:
* Delete the channel
* Go to the Usermap area of JFBConnect and delete the mapping between your client and their Facebook account
* Have them re-authenticate on the front-end.
If "Automatically link users by email" is enabled, and the client's Facebook email is the same as their Joomla account, they should just be logged right in and the association made again. If not, they may need to then login with their Joomla credentials as well.
* Re-create the Channel again.

Deleting the usermapping should completely remove the old, defunct, permissions request and hopefully get you going.

Let us know how that goes, and sorry for the troubles,
Alex