Location from Facebook to EasySocial

If your application is approved for the user_location scope, then the location can already be retrieved and imported from Facebook into EasySocial. If you haven't submitted through the approval process yet, you can still test the import with a user that is an admin or developer of your FB application. Otherwise, a normal user that doesn't have a role in your app won't be able to have the data retrieved. If you are testing with an admin/developer and have the location mapped in the JFBConnect > Profiles > EasySocial tab, but the data is not being imported correctly, please let us know.

developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/

-Melissa

In the Facebook column, the dropdown should have the option for the "Basic Info - Current Location" field. This is the location field that can be imported from Facebook. Currently supported EasySocial field types that can be imported into are: birthday, datetime, email, gender, textarea, textbox and url. Only fields of these types will be displayed in that "Easysocial Field" column.

The only current way to have location imported from a social network into EasySocial is to setup a textarea or textbox field which is a freeform field that any text can be entered into. Then, you can import the user's location into that.

Unfortunately, Facebook's location field is variable and changes format based on where the user is from. That makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to map the values from Facebook into options that you may have in EasySocial for different possible locations.

I hope that helps explain, but if you need anything else, just let me know,
Alex

We'll have to look further into the location ability. It's possible Facebook has changed and solidified how they return locations into a way that we can easily map it into EasySocial. Obviously, they're doing it, so there must be some way.

I've added this to our to-do list, but I don't have a specific timeline on when we'd have something to use.

Thanks,
Alex