broadcast to FB business page

Yes, JFBConnect can post to Pages, Groups and Profiles for Facebook. In the JFBConnect backend > Channels section, you should be able to add a new Channel with the 'Facebook' Provider and 'Page' Type. From there, you'll need to select the user that's authenticated on your site that is an administrator of the FB page. We'll then prompt you to accept new permissions needed for manage_pages.

Here's our documentation for setting up channels if you have any issues or need a step-by-step guide.

Of course, if you're having issues setting up the channel, please let us know.

-Melissa

Your first question was much broader than your specific use case you just posted. What you describe above is not possible with the current version of JFBConnect.

JFBConnect can post new content created in multiple extensions (new Joomla articles, new events or groups in JomSocial, new K2 items, etc) to a Facebook Page, Profile or Group as well as a Twitter Stream or LinkedIn Company Page. That answers your original question as Melissa noted. However, the way this posting is done is to a FB, Twitter or LinkedIn stream that you (the admin) own and setup in the administrator area of JFBConnect. Once configured, you can broadcast a lot of different content being created on your site to those Pages that you setup. We do this on our site when new blog posts are created and we have a merged stream of our Facebook Page, Twitter Stream and LinkedIn page viewable below as well.

Your second post relates to having users setup their own Pages and pushing content to those Pages that they own in various ways. That's not something we support. That would take a much larger amount of work to have your site manage each persons Page and secure things so user A can't post to user B's Page. It's also something that really isn't ever asked for, so it's not something we plan to implement.

For now, it's much more of a rigid system where you (the admin) define different social channels you own (related to your brand/website) where new content on your site can be automatically posted too.

I hope that helps explain, but if you need any more details, please let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

I understood what you were looking for. It's not something JFBConnect offers. We don't have a way for individual users on your site to setup a Facebook Page that they can post content to automatically.

To setup a Facebook Page the way you state, the user would be giving your FB application, which directly means you (the admin) the permission to post to their Facebook Page on their behalf. This is something that can be easily abused (not necessarily by you, but maybe by other admins). The note of "A posting to B's Page" was just an example of the security measures we'd have to put in to make everything work.

I think what you may be looking for is the simple Facebook Share button. If you put that on the pages of your site that you want users to be able to post to their Facebook Pages they can. The Share popup has a selector in the top right where the user can choose a Facebook Page they manage, or their own profile or group, to post the content too.

I hope that helps give you some background and ideas to do what you're looking for.

Thanks,
Alex