App Id and App secret

In the following steps we tell you how to obtain the Facebook API key, API secret, Access token and Access Token Secret to your DPCalendar - Facebook plugin.

• Log in on the Facebook Developer Page you have to click on "Add a New App" to get the App information needed by the DPCalendar plugin.
• Define a display name and an E-Mail address and click on "Create App ID".
• Do the captcha authentication.
• Choose "Facebook Login" as Scenario and click on Next.
• In the menu bar on the left side of the page, click on Products -> Facebook Login -> Settings.
• Set your web site url with the following parameters as Valid OAuth redirect URIs: https://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_dpcalendar&task=plugin.action&dpplugin=facebook&action=import. Replace example.com with your web site url. This is required, otherwise the import will not work.
• At the bottom of the page, click on "Save Changes".
• In the menu bar on the left side of the page, click on "Dashboard". That's the page where you can get then the App ID and App Secret.

Import the Facebook pages

• Click on the import button in the plugin edit form.
• Copy the "App ID" and "App Secret" from the facebook developer console into the DPCalendar import wizard.
• Click the "Import" button.
• Accept the permission questions from Facebook.
• The pages should be imported into the DPCalendar Facebook plugin.

Autopublish Event updates

The DPCalendar Facebook plugins offers the possibility to publish automatic updates on your Facebook page timeline when an native event is edited. You can define which actions should be triggered and if child calendars should be included in the publish actions.

If you want to modify the content of the published messages you have to make language overrides of the following constants:

• PLG_DPCALENDAR_FACEBOOK_STATUS_EVENT_CREATED
• PLG_DPCALENDAR_FACEBOOK_STATUS_EVENT_UPDATED
• PLG_DPCALENDAR_FACEBOOK_STATUS_EVENT_DELETED

How to make a language override can be found in the official Joomla documentation.

Private events

For your private events you have to use the Ical plugin. There you have to add a new calendar with the url to your Facebook events.

To get the url log in to Facebook and visit the Events section. On the right side you will find the section with the upcoming events and birthday ical urls. Click it to expose a menu. You want the first item, "Export".