Problem Facebook Login: Invalid Scopes: manage_pages, publish_actions,

Facebook has been making numerous changes lately regarding privacy issues, which is impacting application API access. If you have not been through the approval process yet or your application is new, some of these permissions (such as publish_actions) will not be available anymore.

Is your Facebook application new? What graph API version is it set to?

Additionally, JFBConnect only requests these permissions with our Channels features. Do you have any channels set up on your page? If so, are they actually in use right now or can they be disabled?

-Melissa

The documentation is actually pretty close to what's current for a new application. As Melissa mentioned, the 'scopes' being requested by JFBConnect are *only* requested when you're setting up a Channel on your site to show the feed of a Facebook Page. I'm assuming that's what you're trying to do, but any details on what you're trying to setup will really really help us.

With that said, the publish_actions permission is being removed by Facebook. Apps made before May 1st can still have that permission requested, while apps after May 1st cannot. I'm assuming you're app was created after May 1st. Is that correct?

We'll be releasing a new version of JFBConnect over the next few weeks which fixes some of the permissions that we are requesting. Right now though, you won't be able to get the publish_actions permission at all, if your app is new. That's just how Facebook works now and we can't control that.

With all of the above said, can you let us know:
* What feature are you trying to setup?
* Is it a Facebook Page Channel? Are you trying to show a feed on your site or have content from your site posted back to Facebook?
* What is, or isn't, happening when you try to do so?

Knowing those details will help make sure we can give you the best answer so you can get the feature setup.

Thanks,
Alex

As noted, Facebook is changing their API substantially. We're knee-deep in a new release that should be out around the end of the month that incorporates most of these changes into it. Some features will be removed, others are changing. We have no control over it, unfortunately.

The permissions Facebook has required for specific features is changing and other features that have worked with less or no permissions now require more permissions from the user to approve of first. The posting of content to your Facebook Page is an area Facebook is changing a bit. It's still allowed, but they're elevating many of the permissions to require the approval process.

Please note though that the above message specifically says that it is only shown to developers or admins of your app. Normal users wouldn't see that scary red box. Normal users simply won't be asked for those permissions. The Channels feature is almost always setup by admins of your app though, so you can still approve those permissions *and* you don't have to go through the revview process with Facebook. The review process is only if plan to ask those permissions from normal users/guests, and most of the time, that isn't required for Page posting or other Channels features.

Other profile import permissions, like birthday, hometown, location and some others have always required the review process to be performed and will continue to do so if you want to get extended profile information from your users.

If you're experiencing something other than the above, please let us know what issue it is and we'll gladly investigate further.

Thanks,
Alex

You have a few options to do that:
* You can use the Facebook Share button, which can be configured with the SCSocialWidget module (or various other methods). The Share button is similar to the Like button in that you click it and you can push the content to Facebook. This can also be used by your users. This does not require a Facebook app or authentication setup on your site.
* You can use the Channels feature, which allows you to push content to multiple social networks at the same time. This can also be setup to automatically post new content to the networks as it's created. This feature requires that you authenticate on your site using any of the social networks you want to post to so that your website has permission to post on your behalf. Once you authenticate, you can hide the social login functionality so that other users don't have the ability to login.

I hope that helps explain some options, but if you have more details on what you're trying to do, we can gladly give you tips on how to accomplish it.

Thanks,
Alex