Created By
David Radunz
05/16/2012 11:16pm

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BugsOpenGraph built-in action 'required' but lacking flexibility

  • Status: Fixed
  • Priority: Wishlist
  • Updated: June 20, 2012 at 11:28am
Latest response from Facebook
Eric Osgood
This should now be resolved. Thanks for your patience.
Status changed to Fixed · June 20, 2012 at 11:28am
Eric Osgood
Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.
Status changed to Assigned · Priority changed to Wishlist · May 24, 2012 at 10:15am
I tried to create a custom action 'Watch', so I could change the 'on' to a 'via' and also add a custom property. The action was rejected, saying to use a built-in action instead. But with built-in actions, you cannot change the 'at', 'in' 'on' e.t.c. that Facebook has set for this built-in action. Nor can you add a custom parameter.

In my case, I now have no choice but to try and find a similar word to try and get approved because I *NEED* it to be 'via' and I *NEED* custom parameters. For me, the user did NOT watch the video 'on' our site, they indicated that they have watched it in general 'via' our site. The custom parameters is needed for the aggregation caption lines as well.

To this end, I tried to submit 'View' - but was again rejected and told to use a built in action. Tell me then, how does one 'watch' a photo? Wouldn't it be 'View' in this case?

I understand you want consistency, but with consistency you need to provide flexibility or else people simply won't use this feature -- As I may be forced to do if no suitable action is approved.

I also don't like having wasted lots of my own time submitting these actions, and retying the request details only to have the comments I made in 'Steps to reproduce' completely ignored and a canned rejection sent (even after the 3rd time).
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