Facebooker talk - Feb 2008 - Doc confusion for publichTemplatizedAction

Hey All,

I recently go re-confused about the differece between
publichActionOfUser and publishTemplatizedAction.

My confusion was around how to publish stories to users that haven''t
installed the application yet.  What I found was that the
documentation is not consistant.


The WIKI states that the feed item will ''possibly'' be
published to
user who do not yet have the app.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction

"Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user or Page corresponding to the
session_key or page_actor_id parameter. For user stories, this
function publishes News Feed stories to the friends of that user."

The documentation page states that it will only be published to user
that have installed the app.

http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&method=feed.publishTemplatizedAction
"facebook.feed.publishTemplatizedAction
Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user corresponding to the
session_key parameter, and publishes News Feed stories to the friends
of that user who have added the application."

I think that the wiki is correct, since I see this happen in the real
world.  Anyone have an insight?


Dave

You aren''t publishing an action to a user,

You publish the action of one of your application users which may or  
may not be shown to people who haven''t installed your application. If  
you want to send a message to a user who hasn''t installed the  
application, you can use a notification.

Mike

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Clements wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I recently go re-confused about the differece between
> publichActionOfUser and publishTemplatizedAction.
>
> My confusion was around how to publish stories to users that
haven''t
> installed the application yet.  What I found was that the
> documentation is not consistant.
>
>
> The WIKI states that the feed item will ''possibly'' be
published to
> user who do not yet have the app.
>
> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
>
> "Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user or Page corresponding to the
> session_key or page_actor_id parameter. For user stories, this
> function publishes News Feed stories to the friends of that user."
>
> The documentation page states that it will only be published to user
> that have installed the app.
>
>
http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&method=feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> "facebook.feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user corresponding to the
> session_key parameter, and publishes News Feed stories to the friends
> of that user who have added the application."
>
> I think that the wiki is correct, since I see this happen in the real
> world.  Anyone have an insight?
>
>
> Dave
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Mike Mangino
http://www.elevatedrails.com

Right,

So the wiki documentation is correct and the developer doc is
incorrect?  Or am I missing, mis-reading, something.

Dave

On Feb 7, 2008 12:15 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
wrote:
> You aren''t publishing an action to a user,
>
> You publish the action of one of your application users which may or
> may not be shown to people who haven''t installed your application.
If
> you want to send a message to a user who hasn''t installed the
> application, you can use a notification.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Clements wrote:
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I recently go re-confused about the differece between
> > publichActionOfUser and publishTemplatizedAction.
> >
> > My confusion was around how to publish stories to users that
haven''t
> > installed the application yet.  What I found was that the
> > documentation is not consistant.
> >
> >
> > The WIKI states that the feed item will ''possibly''
be published to
> > user who do not yet have the app.
> >
> >
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> >
> > "Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> > Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user or Page corresponding to the
> > session_key or page_actor_id parameter. For user stories, this
> > function publishes News Feed stories to the friends of that
user."
> >
> > The documentation page states that it will only be published to user
> > that have installed the app.
> >
> >
http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&method=feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> > "facebook.feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> > Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user corresponding to the
> > session_key parameter, and publishes News Feed stories to the friends
> > of that user who have added the application."
> >
> > I think that the wiki is correct, since I see this happen in the real
> > world.  Anyone have an insight?
> >
> >
> > Dave
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>

Good discussion on this here:

http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=9020

I did a test the other day, it took at least several hours to show up  
on a  feed with the app installed and without it, but it did for both


Joel


On Feb 7, 2008, at 2:51 PM, David Clements wrote:
> Right,
>
> So the wiki documentation is correct and the developer doc is
> incorrect?  Or am I missing, mis-reading, something.
>
> Dave
>
> On Feb 7, 2008 12:15 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
> wrote:
>> You aren''t publishing an action to a user,
>>
>> You publish the action of one of your application users which may or
>> may not be shown to people who haven''t installed your
application. If
>> you want to send a message to a user who hasn''t installed the
>> application, you can use a notification.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Clements wrote:
>>
>>> Hey All,
>>>
>>> I recently go re-confused about the differece between
>>> publichActionOfUser and publishTemplatizedAction.
>>>
>>> My confusion was around how to publish stories to users that
haven''t
>>> installed the application yet.  What I found was that the
>>> documentation is not consistant.
>>>
>>>
>>> The WIKI states that the feed item will
''possibly'' be published to
>>> user who do not yet have the app.
>>>
>>>
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
>>>
>>> "Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
>>> Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user or Page corresponding to
the
>>> session_key or page_actor_id parameter. For user stories, this
>>> function publishes News Feed stories to the friends of that
user."
>>>
>>> The documentation page states that it will only be published to
user
>>> that have installed the app.
>>>
>>>
http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&method=feed.publishTemplatizedAction
>>> "facebook.feed.publishTemplatizedAction
>>> Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user corresponding to the
>>> session_key parameter, and publishes News Feed stories to the  
>>> friends
>>> of that user who have added the application."
>>>
>>> I think that the wiki is correct, since I see this happen in the  
>>> real
>>> world.  Anyone have an insight?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>
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