custom action and manual button cannot work

Tom,
That error means that you've likely setup the action or object wrong. Can you check the following:
* You properly created the action and object within the Open Graph area of the Facebook Developer area for your app
* In the Open Graph area of JFBConnect, you have *not* checked the 'Built-in Facebook Action' or 'Built-in Facebook Object' setting.

We're working on a vastly improved method for adding buttons to your site that will be included in the 5.1 release that we're shooting to have out at the end of next month (July 2013). We already created a demo video of creating objects/actions that may help guide you through the process. The last part, about using the {JFBCAction ...} tag isn't available now, but the code you're using above is basically what we're doing.. The new code in v5.1 will have the popup, message, people, and place tagging too, which again, isn't available now.

The video actually covers an 'I ate' action for a 'meal'.. very similar to what you're doing, and is below. Again, it may help with seeing some of the settings in the FB App and JFBConnect, but towards the end, it will go off-course from what you can do.


Let us know how that goes for you. I hope it helps, but if you still have questions, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Tom,
Thanks for the detailed information on your setup. Do you have any other Open Graph plugins enabled? Specifcally, my guess is that you have the Open Graph - Content plugin enabled. Since you have a custom object being defined on content too, JFBConnect may be getting confused and not think the action is really associated with your custom object for that article.

Can you try:
* Disabling all other Open Graph plugins, except custom since that is defining both your object and action and try again.
* If that works, enable all other Open Graph plugins, except content, and try again.
* If that works, enable the Content plugin *but* order it to be lower (higher number) than the Open Graph - Custom plugin.

Let us know if any of those steps help any and it will help us figure out how to proceed.

Finally, for the "Open Graph Tags" box in the custom object you created, you can add special tags specific to that page there, like the ingredients in your recipe, cooking duration, or whatever you want. Those fields should also be added in the developer area on Facebook, but we do something similar in our video. The ns: syntax isn't available yet though, so you'd need to add them like:That's a little more advanced, so I wouldn't deal with that until you get the action going, but wanted to explain. Those fields can also be added directly in the article text with our tags, like:
{SCOpenGraph myappname:ingredient=beans}

Lots of flexibility, hopefully not lots of confusion

I hope that helps,
Alex

Error: Action is not ready for this user.

In the Action setup in JFBConnect, there's some parameters for how often the action can be 'used'. It's likely either set to one-time only, or has a value of 1 time per day, or something like that. The error message above just means it's not ready to be used again by the user. Either make it useable multiple times or decrease the frequency (at least while testing).

Hope that explains, but as always, let us know!

Thanks,
Alex