Letting user specify recipients within Feed Dialog

Question

Currently, our app posts to users\' friends\' walls via Graph API. However, Facebook is deprecating this functionality so we are migrating to the Feed Dialog per Facebook\'s rec

Answer 1

OK, we found a workaround. The general idea:

1. Display the Feed Dialog inline as an iframe (by specifying display=iframe)
2. Create your own custom control for selecting a recipient Facebook username or id
3. Reload the iframe asynchronously upon selecting a recipient or onblur, etc

Some caveats/reasoning for above:

• You can't use the JS SDK because it will launch the iframe version of the Feed Dialog as a modal lightbox (rather than inline in your page flow)
• You'll need to implement a redirect page that does post processing, such as updating the state of the parent window, logging results, etc
• For (2), the custom control can be as simple as a text input field, but you'll probably want at least some sort of autocomplete. This is actually not too tricky, as you grab your user's friend list with the https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends Graph API call.

Here's a basic example using a simple text input:

  Recipient's FB username:
  
  

  

You can find a screenshot of a slightly more fleshed out solution at: http://i.imgur.com/0jTM391.png