Connecting to a FB Channel

The error your getting indicates the app isn't configured fully. Specifically, the redirection URLs that Facebook is allowed to return a user to (yourself) after they login on Facebook. That's a security measure to make sure someone doesn't login on site 'a' but send sensitive profile information to site 'b' without their knowledge.

Can you go to the Facebook Developer Area and click into your app. Then, on the left-hand side go to the Facebook Login -> Settings area. In there is a section for "Valid OAuth Redirection URLs". Double-check and add any variations of your domain that you could be visiting there. A good set of examples to check for would be:If there's a chance you're authenticating on a portion of your site that does not have 'v1' in the URL, you'll want to add all the variations of those URLs as well.

I hope that helps get you going, but if you still have issues or questions, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex

manage_pages and publish_pages are required permissions for you to be able to post to a Facebook Page. There is an App Review process that you need to go through *if* you want to get permissions from regular users to your site and setup Channels for those users. In most cases, you the Pages you want to post to are owned by your own company and, in that case, you should add the admin of the Facebook Page to your Facebook App. Once the user is a developer/admin of the app, those permissions can be granted without going through the app review process.

The proper process would be:
* Add the Facebook user to your Facebook App
* Setup the channel for that user
* Have the user authenticate on the front end of your site to grant those permissions
** You *may* need to temporarily put your Facebook app in "Development" mode by using the slider at the top of the Facebook Developer area to turn off 'Live'. That may bee needed to grant the permission, but can be switched back to Live when done and the permission will still be there.

If you plan to setup Channels for random users that you wouldn't want to have access to your Facebook App setup, then yes, you'd need to go through the review process.

I hope that helps,
Alex

once I turn the FB app back to live I get same error does that mean I will need to go through the approval process

Strange. We've heard this from a few users. It used to be that permissions granted in dev mode carried over to live mode. In dev mode, only admins will be requested permissions.. other 'normal' users won't be able to authenticate at all and would see an error that the app is not live. It seems as though Facebook is changing how permissions work so that they don't carry over when the app is made Live.

If that's the case, you will have to go through App Review. For the demo, I'd show the social toolbar at the bottom with the "Create Post" button and describe very clearly that the toolbar is only shown to admins of your site. If it's clear that normal users won't be asked the permission, it should go smoother. We've heard good feedback about that in the past, but there are a lot of reviewers at Facebook and their standards vary a bit.

I hope that helps explain, and please keep us posted how it goes.

Thanks,
Alex

Just saw your latest post in your other thread .. It seems like things are working now, which is good to hear!