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Contents 1 Quick Questions 2 Is there a way to make something like a Facebook Wall Post with this? 3 General Confusion about MultiFeedStory 4 Can we get support for full fb:multi-friend-selector inside feed forms? 5 Responding to Publish/Skip 6 Multiplicity of Feed Calls 7 Limits on how many times can use in timeframe

[edit] Quick Questions

• When using MultiFeedStory form, a notification of the feedstory is not sent to the selected users. Is this a feature or bug in Facebook? 100000044065874 03:47, 4 September 2009 (PDT)

• What does The template_id must contain {*target*} mean?

Good catch. I think we meant to say the template bundle. I made the correction. Thanks, Pete (563683308 12:06, 14 July 2009 (PDT))

• What parameters are passed when our callback url is pinged? How do I get the user id over there?
  • fb_sig_user is there, your form data, ids[] is there

• Can we tell if the user chose to publish or ignore the popup?
  • I couldn't find a way. Please post here if you have a solution.
    • There is no way to deermine which option was chosen. This is by design to stop applications from rewarding users for publishing to their feeds.

[edit] Is there a way to make something like a Facebook Wall Post with this?

Sample text in wall post: Matt Di Pasquale wrote at 9:16pm hey whats up Wall-to-Wall - Write on Matt's Wall

More specifically:

• How do I make it so it only posts a one-line story to my wall, but it MUST post a short-story to the targets' walls. (I want it to always include my facebook pic.)
• How do I post to other users' walls without mentioning them (or perhaps only mentioning their first names)?
• How do I only mention my first name in the action links (Write on Matt's Wall)?
• Is there a way to post to other users' walls without going through the publish dialog? I tried Feed.publishUserAction, but I could only get it to post to my wall and not to other users' walls.

--514417 20:00, 4 February 2009 (PST)

[edit] General Confusion about MultiFeedStory

It seems applications can't publish to ALL friends of the user, but rather using this feature, the user must individually select which friends' walls to publish to.

This is indeed confusing because on my own feed (Facebook Home), i'm seeing feeds initiated by friends' applications that do NOT require them to individually select which friends to notify. It's my belief that no one would use an application that did carry this requirement.

EXAMPLES:

XXX XXXX posted a video. XXX XXXX wrote a new note. XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX - Became fans of ZZZ ZZZZ.

I've also seen posts to my feed (by friends) for the netflix application. How does the NetFlix application get permission to "blanket feed" without friend selection?

[edit] Can we get support for full fb:multi-friend-selector inside feed forms?

Most people are visual when it comes to selecting their friends. It would be much more user-friendly to have the full graphical fb:multi-friend-selector widget inside feed forms instead of the basic text friend-selector widgets.

If any Facebook staff read this, put me down for "plus one" on this. The condensed versions just aren't that nice... -- Richard Lynch

[edit] Responding to Publish/Skip

Is there a way to trap whether the user has pressed the Publish or Skip button in the confirmation dialog. I want to do some action based on that.

Thanks

You could put something into the next_fbjs in the response. -- Pete (563683308 11:11, 24 March 2009 (PDT))

- this is incorrect. the next_fbjs is called no matter which option is pressed

The multiFeedStory form has only 3 possible responses (feed, next, next_fbjs). There's no way, using those variables, that we as developers would know which action the user took, either he/she published the feed or not. -- Sokmai (1682575542 15:20, May 20th 2009)

Answer: No, it's not possible to determine whether the user clicked "Publish" or "Skip". This is intentional and designed to stop applications from rewarding users publishing to feeds.

[edit] Multiplicity of Feed Calls

Could somebody at Facebook who actually knows what's going on make some kind of grid/chart about which calls will or won't post to multiple friends' walls, or a friends' wall at all, and which ones will popup without user interaction and so on?

You've got a heck of a lot of confused developers running around in circles, reduced to re-re-re-writing their apps with different versions of [multi-]friend-select and [multi-]feedStoryDialog*, all trying to do something, which I suspect Facebook doesn't allow in the first place.

There was a miscommunication here about this, and you can use multiFeed_story to have a user post to up to three friends' Walls. Sorry for the confusion. Pete (563683308 16:23, 18 June 2009 (PDT))

[edit] Limits on how many times can use in timeframe

Thanks for answering that you can only choose 3 friends. How many times a day can you do this in general, or is the limit per friend, and if so, how many times a day can you send something?

Since the user has to approve a Feed form before it gets published, there's no real limit on how many times you can call this (well there are pretty high limits on the number of times you can make an API call to pop up the Feed form, but you shouldn't hit that in a day). You should consider the user experience -- how often do you want to let your users post to their friends' Walls? Pete (563683308 16:26, 27 July 2009 (PDT))