Facebook Pages
Created by Orckestra
Creating a CMS Page
- In the Content perspective, create a page.
- For the Page type, select "Facebook Page".
- Add content, save and publish the page.
The page will be based on the "Facebook Page" layout template.
Installing the CMS Page on Facebook
- Create a new app at https://developers.facebook.com/apps specifying the name for it (for example, "My CMS Page Tab") and category (for example, "Apps for Pages").
- Open the Settings -> Basic page of the app created in Step 1 and click Add Platform button and choose Page Tab from the dialog.
- Specify values for:
- Page Tab Name: the name of the page tab (for example, "Orckestra CMS Page")
- Secure Page Tab URL: the secure URL to your CMS Page (for example,
https://www.contoso.com/Facebook-Page
- Make sure to use "https://
" in the URL) - Page Tab Edit URL: here you can specify the URL to the CMS Console, where your page can be edited, for example:
http://www.contoso.com/Composite/top.aspx
.
- Save the changes.
- If you don't have yet, then Create a new page in your Facebook account and select a proper type of the page and complete the wizard.
- Now open the URL:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=[APP_ID]&next=[URL]
replacing[APP_ID]
with your App ID and[URL]
with the URL to your CMS Page (for example,https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=162845980676955&next=http://www.contoso.com/Facebook-Page
).
The Add Page TabDialog will prompt you to add an app to a Facebook Page that you administrate. - Select the page you've created in Step 5 and click "Add Page Tab".
Customization
To customize the page displayed on Facebook, edit the page template ("Facebook Page") and CSS styles at ~\Frontend\Composite\Community\Facebook\Pages\Styles.css