Summary
Why using a Facebook application
The creation of a Facebook application is necessary when:
you want to publish your game on Facebook tab
or you want to insert the buttons highlighted in red below anywhere in your campaign, you must create a Facebook application.
Add a Facebook application to Adictiz Box
To create a Facebook application in Adictiz Box, you have two options:
go to your customer account, and click on "My Social Applications", then click on "Add Application"
within the campaign editor, click on one of the Facebook Social Buttons "Share", "Invite", "Send", "Connect" that you may have inserted in your campaign. In the tab that appears at the bottom left, under "Facebook Application", click on "Add a Facebook application"
Create your Facebook application
Here are the 8 steps to create your application - this should take about 5 to 10 minutes depending on your experience.
1. First, go to the Facebook Developers website and click on the "Add an application" button. Choose "Business" and "Yourself or your own business" and name your app so that it can be easily found later on.
2. Add the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service urls of your website, they are mandatory to publish your application.
3. Define the category of your application in "Entertainment". The sub-category has no impact.
4. Add your application icon in 1024*1024px format on a transparent background (your image cannot have a white background, Facebook will replace the transparent background in white)
5. In "Settings" > "Advanced": activate Allow API access to app settings
6. Click on "Product +" and select "Set up" in the "Facebook Login" section
In the "Facebook Login" tab > "Settings" > "Valid OAuth redirection URLs":
Add the following callback URL: https://adbx.io/callback/facebook
Or:
If your game is played on a custom domain: https://votre.domaine/callback/facebook
Warning: without this URL, mobile authentication will not work!
7. Copy the App ID and Secret App from the "Settings" > "General" section and add them to Adictiz Box in the indicated fields.
8. Once all these steps have been completed, you can change your application to the "Live" status:
When your application has the "Live" status, you can publish it on your Facebook page to play the game, and the connection / viral features like Facebook sharing are then available for everyone.
If your application has the "In development" status, only the administrator will have access to the connection and sharing features available on the campaign.
Once you have created the application, you will find it:
in the listing of your social applications on your user account
in a drop-down menu in the configuration button of one of the Facebook Social Buttons "Share", "Invite", "Send", "Connect".
Once selected, this Facebook application will be used by default for all additional Facebook buttons you create on the campaign.
Configure an application as a favorite
You can choose a Facebook application previously configured on one of your campaigns and make it your "favorite": this means that it is this application that will be selected as a base when setting up a corresponding widget on your campaign.
This choice can be made from the "My social applications" and "My platforms" tabs of your account.
Example below when installing a Facebook application: the one selected as "favorite" is indicated by default during installation on the form page:
Modify an existing Facebook application (and publication alert linked)
In most of your campaigns, the creation of a Facebook application uses the same settings as described earlier in this article. To save time on this step, it is possible to choose an existing application to reuse it in another campaign. However, this application must meet two criteria:
it does not require new authorizations (e.g. sharing photos, videos, Facebook login...)
it was used for a campaign that is completed
If this is the case, you can follow these steps:
Install a Facebook sharing button on your campaign
When you click on this button, select the application
Set the title, visual and description of this sharing
Click on "Publish" once the campaign is installed: a publication alert will warn you that this application is already being used on another campaign. Click on "Publish my campaign" to finish.
Photo Contest requirements
If you want to configure your Facebook application for a Photo Contest, for example to upload a photo via Facebook, follow this link.