It’s only been a few weeks since we last pestered you, but it turns out our changes to the Facebook app weren’t quite enough, and that for a certain set of users flight notifications were still not working properly. This time, though, we’re pretty sure we’ve got it licked, so let’s try this one last time — or so I hope. Please go to:
http://apps.facebook.com/openflights/
If it says “Automatic refreshing active” at the bottom, the app should be working fine and no action is needed. However, if it says “Step 1“, then please follow the instructions: click the link, grant the “publish” and “remember me” permissions, and then “Activate/Update preferences”. You should get a “Thank you!” box after this, and then the application should finally work. And if it doesn’t… let us know!
<geek> Turns out that publish_stream isn’t enough, offline_access is required as well before Facebook will deign to grant a session key usable for offline stream publishing, and we were recording the wrong, temporary ones. Fortunately, we can request both and use the users_hasAppPermission() call to verify that the permission has duly been granted before recording the session key, and everything should now be peachy keen. </geek>
Facepalmed by Facebook,
-jani
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on Mar 10th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Hi, congrats on the cool site
Couple of notes:
- On the FAQ page, the signup link is broken (still pointing to /html/signup, when you know signup at /html/settings?new=yes);
- In some pages the links on the top right corner don’t work on chrome (the cursor doesn’t even turn into a hand, seems a CSS issue).
Hope it helps,
Pedro
on Mar 10th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Oh, i just noticed i commented on the facebook post, but my remarks were about the site pages
on Mar 10th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Thanks, the FAQ link is fixed now. Chrome is not one of our officially supported browsers, but if you can suggest a CSS change that would fix the problem, let us know!
-jani
on Apr 29th, 2010 at 1:59 am
Dear Sir,
I am trying to register a flight with Wind Rose Aviation (7W) and I cannot because the system obliges me to register with an airline which probably never existed and it is claimed to use 7W. Please, could you fix this issue ? Thank you
on Oct 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 am
Dear all, trying to update my FB profile with Openglight application but since yesterday I got an error message from FB and then I could not upload it.
Are you aware of any issue with FB?
I follow carefully all your step by step instruction…but noway!
on Oct 27th, 2010 at 2:30 am
@Lukediver: Please create a bug report on SourceForge *with the exact error message* and we’ll look into it:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=235620&atid=1097177
on Nov 5th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
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