Topic-icon Use new Facebook app

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8 years 3 months ago #56769 by LeGiangAnh
Hi team,

I'd like to ask whether I can use a new Facebook app ID for my site? The user will have to sign-up again or they can use their old credentials?
If not, can Iuse Facebook Business to merge them?

Thanks,
Giang Anh
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8 years 3 months ago #56775 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Use new Facebook app
If you create a new Facebook App ID, then each user will have to approve the new application. Facebook also returns a different User ID for the same user across 2 different application IDs. Because of that, users that logged in on the old app won't be recognized by JFBConnect and each user would need to re-connect to their existing Joomla account.

If not, can Iuse Facebook Business to merge them?

The Facebook Business stuff allows you to look up users through a different API that we don't support. With that, you can check the User ID from App 1 and find the corresponding User ID for the same user in App 2. However, JFBConnect doesn't support that process as it's complex and there's no use case we've heard of to use it within a Joomla site.

Obviously, I'd really recommend to not create a new Application ID. Can I ask why you want to?

Thanks,
Alex
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8 years 3 months ago #56783 by LeGiangAnh
Replied by LeGiangAnh on topic Use new Facebook app
Hi Alex,

I have to switch to the new domain for my site. I forgot the admin account of the old FB app and cannot change the info.
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8 years 3 months ago #56786 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Use new Facebook app
Gotcha. It's going to be very problematic to switch to a new app. Facebook really makes it difficult for apps to be interchangeable for security and privacy reasons. I'd really recommend doing whatever you can to get the old admin details for your Facebook App.

I hope the above explanation helps though if you do decide to create a new app.

Thanks,
Alex
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