Google analytics shows me the report for the root of my site (/), however, there are two possible roots. One for public users (and google bot), one for logged in users (like Facebook, for example).
Can I add some code, anywhere to my HTML, so that in Google Analytics I can see those two pages differentiated?
I don't want to code two different links for those two pages, for simple reasons:
I don't want/need to index the inside of my site, so I don't care that google bot doesn't know about it
I don't want my public main page to be domain.com/something
I don't want my 'logged in' main page to be domain.com/something-else
You can pass a special url for logged in users as a parameter to your track pageview call via serverside code (or a javascript funktion).
Example (assuming you use the asynchronous code):
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/root_loggedind']);
Even though the url "/root_loggedind" does not physically exist it will register in your reports. The root for "normal" users will still register as simply "/".
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Background
I'm creating an app that will allow me to send meeting points to my clients by SMS. The meeting points are always physical addresses, not coordinates. When doing the process manually through Google Maps, it looks like so:
Note that the link generated is a goo.gl. Also, note the neatly generated thumbnail, displaying the facade of the house and the address under it. Very user friendly.
My problem
Trying to recreate the step above programmatically works only partially; it creates a workable link but the SMS does not display the facade picture of the house, nor is the address displayed below the thumbnail.
Most inquiries I found on the topic point to Google's Developer Guide, where they make use of the following synthax:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query={{URL encoded address}}
or in this situation:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=172+Fourth+Ave+Ottawa%2C+ON+K1S+2L6
Following the approach above yields the following SMS:
Any suggestion on how to get the first output generated via goo.gl link?
Currently the bane of my existence is dealing with users email signatures at work, changing names, titles, departments, new users...it's all annoying. Currently I manage it with GAM and a semi templated HTML file to push changes, which works okay, but it's still a manual process. What I'm looking to do is create a small app script or app engine project that can...
detect a new or changed user
pull the fields needed to fill in their signature template
push the changes to their account
2 & 3 are no problem at all, it's #1 that I cannot find a reasonable solution to.
I had thought about using the google apps audit settings to email a specific mailbox when a new user is created, but that will only catch new users, not changes in titles and such. My only apparent option is something that runs periodically checking all the users signatures against what my script would generate and updating if needed, but that's hardly efficient and creates a potential timelapse in the waiting period meaning when people want things 'done now' (which is of course, every request), it will mean I manually trigger the job; effectively bringing me back to my original solution.
Is there any kind of user feed that contains changes available in google apps? Maybe google has a POST hook that hits a predefined URL on changes?
You can probably use push notifications for this https://developers.google.com/drive/web/push using the users.watch method https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/users/watch
I want to create a script that runs on a Google site. The script would perform a specialized calculation for a given user and then display the answer for the user. The script would depend upon user input, but the code itself should not be viewable by the user. I want the code to exist in a "black box" so that the calculation formula can be kept secret. Is this possible?
I searched the documentation, but only found this, which does not address this question:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/authorization#permissions_and_types_of_scripts
Whether your App script is embedded in a site or written as a standalone script does not change a lot of things... the only difference will be the way you include it on a page as a gadget.
If it is embedded it will be available from a list of scripts in the page editing, if not you'll have to use the .exec url of the deployed webapp.
Anyway, that does not change the way people will have access to the app.
You can define these parameter when you deploy the app (which is mandatory in both cases), allowing for anonymous access or requiring to be logged in.
If I understood you correctly, you would like to restrict the access to some people but not share the code.
Depending on how you defined the access mode above and wether you are using a Google Apps inside a domain or not, you will be able to do it using 2 ways :
in a domain you can get the logged user identity and use that to accept/deny showing the app.
in a "normal" gmail account you will have to implement some sort of logging feature to request a user name and password to give access to the active part of the app.
In both case you never need to share the script itself, this sharing parameter is independent from the webapp access.
I hope I understood your question correctly... if not, feel free to comment.
You might check out the Private Functions section of the following page.....the example is similar to what you're referring to, I think.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html/communication?hl=ru
I don't fully understand how they work and haven't used them myself, but I bookmarked it to figure out later. Maybe another user who understands Private Functions better can explain...
I am trying to add the tab to a page I am admin of.
I use the url to do that -
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=&next=.
Facebook shows a list of all the pages I am admin of. And that drop down has no specific sorting order.
Now my problem is - I have multiple pages with same page name. They ofcourse have different urls. I tried changing the name of pages, but due to high number of likes I can't change the names.
The only option I am left with is hit & Trial. And I have to do it for more than 30 apps.
So you understand my pain point.
Please advice any alternative.
Thanks
Pankaj
I would recommend writing down the page ids and making some sort of system for yourself to remember (perhaps only the last few digits) which page is which.
In any case, there is a way for you to add a tab application directly to a page without ever seeing that "Add Page Tab" dialog. You can do it all through the API. This means you'll need your pages access token so head on over to the Graph API Explorer, make sure you click the "get access token" button and mark the manage_pages permission.
You need to query /me/accounts to get a list of all the pages you administer.
You'll see a list with the page id, name, category... I hope you will be able to identify your page more easily here. Once you have, you'll need to get the access_token for that page. Keep a record of it - we'll need it in a few minutes. You'll also need the page id.
Modify the following URL to include the parameters we got previously -
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/tabs?app_id=TAB_APP_ID&method=post&access_token=PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN
Navigate to that URL and if all goes well, you'll get a simple true message indicating that the action was successful.
I have a simple product catalogue for businesses. There is a catalogue's management interface for adding products. Each business has a unique domain name where all its products are listed.
I would like to extend catagloue's functionality and allow businesses to have their products listed on facebook.
Functionality of the facebook application:
- Each business can install application from catalogue's management interface (I would like to have a button that opens facebook in a new window and prompts user to authorize access to one of user's existing Facebook Pages)
- installing application adds a Tab on selected Facebook Page,
- by clicking on a Tab visitor of the Facebook Page is presented with a list of products specific for this business. Data for that page is dynamic and can be accessed with a REST call and presented as json or html.
We would like each business that have a product catalogue with us to install application and have it automatically configured to use specific domain name when requesting product data.
Is it all technically possible? Could you point me into the right direction on how to
- install application from external website
- configure that application with a parameter (perhaps passed in url when requesting application installation)
- automatically add Page Tab for this application
Cheers,
Michal
Yes it is possible. But it'll be a little different from what you are thinking, i guess.
I recently implemented code to add a tab to a page programmatically, it is as follows(in PHP) :
$tabAdded=$facebook->api("/".$id."/tabs","post", array("access_token" => $access,
"app_id" => $fbconfig['appid']));
From the code we see that we need an app id, an access token, and the page id($id). $facebook is an instance of the FacebookPHPSDK.
So here's how we can get the three things in question:
First app id, you'll need to create a Facebook page tab app, select Page Tab in the app's Basic settings (where you can mention the page tab url. This url will have the content for a page tab.) You'll also need to enable website because you need to ask the user for necessary permissions (namely manage_pages). For your specific requirement you have to give the domain of the catalogue management app.
Second page id and access token, once you have manage_pages permission you can query the graph api to get the pages of the user using : api('me/accounts') this returns data with page name, page category, page id, page access token for all the user's pages.
#thaddeusmt has already mentioned that you can't create new applications, and need to use the same app, you have to read the signed request and get the page id, and serve content. All that will be left to do is link your customer domains to the correct page ids.
Hope this was useful.
You can install/uninstall (add/remove) application tabs to/from Pages using the Facebook API:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#tabs
You cannot create new applications, however. So you will need to use the same application for each Page.
The way you can show different content for each Page in the Tab (using the same application) is by checking the Signed Request. This contains the ID of the Facebook Page. The code that serves up your application Tab can look at the Page ID and serve up the appropriate content for that Page.
I hope this helps get you on the trail. Good luck!
Yes it is possible.
It's a two way process
First you have to get page_access_token through graphAPI.
www.facebook.com/?fields=access_token
This will return Page_access_token.
Use page access token and use post method
www.facebook.com/yourpageid/tabs/
Post Parameters:
app_id= 'YourAppID'
access_token = 'access_token'
That way you can add your facebook app into facebookPage.