publish_actions issues

Question

i have adapted my app to all the new features from timeline, aggregations, mini stories and such. i set "publish_actions" as required in the oauth process as well as in the "new auth" process dialog. i have set up my aggregations and everything looks neat an all and i also got the opengraph near realtime ministories working.

BUT

1) i do not get the new auth page to show up ... i am the only developer, i have set "use new auth page" in app settings, i am in the developer beta and got the timeline in my profile of course, i got the near realtime opengraph stories working, i got my aggregations set, i can preview the oauth screen as myself and generic user fine.

2) the old auth page only shows "publish_actions" when i set my app to be of the app-type "games" and when i set my app to be of the type "other" i do not get prompted for "publish_actions" permission when adding the app and i get "OAuth "Facebook Platform" "insufficient_scope" "(#200) Requires extended permission: publish_actions" all the time.

why does developing for/on facebook have to be so buggy and hard all the time?

Answer 1

"These stories can only be published by apps categorized as ‘Games’ and are only shown to users when playing a game. We intend to broaden the types of apps that can use these new APIs in the near future." ( http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/539/ )

So I think we only have two choices right now. Change the app category to "Games" OR Using the new permissions dialog page.