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1/25/2013 3:01 PM
 

It's been a while since I bumped around in the DNN forums so if this has been asked and answered somewhere else please point me there :)

I've been thinking about resurrecting my (dormant for a year) community events calendar site which is DNN based. It had a small number of registered users but it's Facebook group had nearly 10 times as many. But afaik they never actually visited my site - they just consumed what was cross posted to the wall on the FB group page.

The core functionality of my site was the event calendar which was based on the DNN events module. I'm thinking that I could get more buy-in from the users if I could expose the calendar (hosted in my site) in a Facebook page just like any other FB App.

Is this possible with DNN?
I see lots of DNN modules for sale  that do this Facebook integration the other direction: FB content into your DNN site but I see nothing that speaks to the opposite flow: DNN site content integrated into FB. Are there any?

 
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1/27/2013 2:42 PM
 
Hmmm ... days go by and no one chimes in.
Guess I'll keep pushing:

Anyone tried out what they point out here?
http://blog.dmbcllc.com/facebook-app-...

In the back of my head I have this dream ... where my DNN site is back up and running ... and has a Mobile face for the visitors with phones, phablets and the such. And has a portion that peeks through the canvas on its Facebook page so the web denizens who never leave FB can use it too.

At this point it's just a dream and I'm trying to decide if it's worth pursuing OR if there's other things I want to do when I grow up ...
 
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1/27/2013 5:22 PM
 
Facebooks Apps are essentially iframed applications, so I can't see a reason why you can't expose some of your DNN website in that environment.

If you want people to interact, you'll need to interact with the facebook social graph API. In this regard, DNN is no different to any other CMS or website.

Scott McCulloch
Developer, F5 Networks
Owner, Ventrian DotNetNuke Modules
 
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1/28/2013 6:32 AM
 
facebook apps are framed by applications software
 
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1/28/2013 1:24 PM
 

iframe'd html fragments

So ... if I could stick the calendar into an iframe (something to research into) and place that on the FB canvas that might give me the basic exposure I want. But which users content would it show? Would I care? I'm guessing either mine OR the non-logged-in view unless I do something about getting the user to log in.

Thanks Scott.

I can see a few things to follow up on (but being hosted at GoDaddy I'm suspect there will be something standing in the way of using the API's - just from previous experience ;)

 
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