"apprequests" dialog reports success, recipients receive nothing

Question

Using the Facebook iOS SDK I can display a dialog with apprequests and send it. Delegate method -dialogDidComplete: gets called, but the recipient(s) receive no notification or request of any kind. If they have the app authorized, Facebook.app (for iOS) will display a number of pending requests next to the app bookmark, but notification jewel doesn't get updated and notification is nowhere to be found and Facebook.app doesn't display any push notifications.

I have followed Facebook's own tutorial for this and even tried with their own sample project Hackbook, but I get the same result every time.

Am I missing something in app settings or is this simply not working as described in the (poor) documentation?

I can see Path app implemented this and it works pretty well on my devices with my accounts so I guess I really did skip something. Adding a bounty in hope of a solution.

Betteann

can you tell me how you got the requests dialog to show? i haven't even gotten that far. -- never mind, i found it "apprequests" is the dialog you need. thanks! – Guilford

just implemented this and i have the same problem. maybe it only works if you app is in production? – Guilford

Answer 1

Found an explanation that helped me fix this here: http://facebook.https://mcmap.net/q/455870/-facebook-apprequests-not-working

When a user clicks on an app request, Facebook takes them to your Facebook canvas page. If you don't have a canvas page, the requests don't show up.

As soon as I added a canvas url (one that didn't even work), the requests started showing up.

Guilford

This fixed my issue as well. I was sending requests out, and trying to receive them on Mobile devices (through Safari and the iOS Facebook app) with no luck. I had to add a Mobile Web URL to my app. – Bradleybradly

Where to set this canvas URl? I cant see it on the settings page – Anaclinal

@114100웃 Sorry, this was from 3 years ago. I don't remember and it's probably different now. – Guilford

Answer 2

,Please make sure you have registered you App as "App On Facbook" within your FB app settings.And your Facebook App needs to have a Canvas URL defined. The URL doesn't even need to be valid, it just needs to be defined in the Settings of the App. I have done things in same way and i am getting the Notification of App request in my Facebook Notifications,I hope you can get The App Request Notification in your Facebook Notification.

Keffiyeh

Where to set this canvas URl? I cant see it on the settings page – Anaclinal