Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

Time for action – publishing rich posts

To avoid confusion, I'll use the term rich post to refer to a Wall post that uses more than just plain text. Besides message, there are eight additional parameters we can pass to the URLVariables object:

• picture
• link
• name
• caption
• description
• source
• actions
• privacy

We'll concentrate on message, picture, link, name, caption, and description first, and find out what they do by publishing a rich post that uses them.

The Visualizer can be configured to display a window with input fields for all six of these parameters, instead of just message. To do so, find this line in CustomGraphContainerController.as:

this._publishingCapability = PublishingCapabilities.BASIC;

…and replace it with this:

this._publishingCapability = PublishingCapabilities.COMPLETE; ...