Codepolice

I’ve been building some Facebook applications lately. Facebook pages and applications is kind of a confusing  system and you can’t get enough of handy tips to put in your toolbox.

The latest problem I had was that I wanted to add the application canvas as a tab on the application page itself. But as the application was in sandbox mode (and/or not published to the directory) I could not find the application so that I could “install” it on the page/app.

Then I found this little handy link. Just paste this into your browser when you are logged in to Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=97f0a6f5dd2f3d74269c17621a5b9b93&pages

This will give you this screen

Just change the API key to yours and you should be able to add your sandbox application to any page. I guess that you also could change the querystring “pages” to “profiles” or something to be able to add an app to your profile.