Next round!

We are ready to release the improved version of Publish to Facebook. We collected your feedback, took a hard look at the implementation and we are proud to show off the latest version of the feature.

The improvements:

1. Now you can publish to your pages as well as to your own profile

2. You can customize a text that goes along the links you post to Facebook

3. We allow you to upload XL size, which matches the maximum image size of Facebook

The feature will still be in Beta so you have to opt in. If you have opted in already this step is not needed.

1. Visit our Darkroom page here: http://www.smugmug.com/darkroom/

2. Click the green 'JOIN' button next to the Publish to Facebook section.

3. If you're on a custom domain you'll need to visit the /darkroom/ page on your custom URL, too.

4. Leave at any time by hitting the 'LEAVE' button and we'll remove the new features from your view.

Once you've joined, visit any of your galleries and hit the Share button. You should see a new "Publish to Facebook" option under the Owner Only options.

Click it, pick profile or a page to publish to, select or create album and choose the photos from your gallery that you want to share. Feel free to also customize the Image size, Caption and Link Style settings.

Hit Publish and we'll port them over to the album of your choice.

As always. Please report any problems back here.

Great to see these additions.

Just tried to use it today and had problems.

1. New album would not create.
- Clicked create and nothing happened
- Went to FB and created there
2. Then tried to submit some to FB to the newly created albums
- Waited 5-10 minutes and nothing is showing up on FB.

Is this a Smugmug problem or Facebook issue?

Update
5 hours later and 0 published to one FB gallery and 9 out of 155 in another.

Thanks,
Steve
go.skactionpix.com

I also cannot create a new album, as above I clicked the 'create' button and nothing happens.

I just tried creating the album in Facebook and uploading to it and, same as for Steve above, nothing seems to have published to it as yet.

I'm having the same problem - Click create new album and nothing happens.

Webpage error details
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Timestamp: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:44:36 UTC

Message: 'name' is null or not an object
Line: 863
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: http://www.smugmug.com/services/publ...pageType=Album

www.bluesphotosonline.com

used the old plugin just fine

I have cleared out my cache, re-joined, etc.

Using OSX Lion and Safari.

I hit the "Create It" button for a new gallery and nothing happens.

Originally Posted by blueman www.bluesphotosonline.com used the old plugin just fine I have cleared out my cache, re-joined, etc. Using OSX Lion and Safari. I hit the "Create It" button for a new gallery and nothing happens.

I tried this with an exisitng album and it works fine. I think the program has problems creating a new album.

Originally Posted by SPK64 Great to see these additions. Just tried to use it today and had problems. 1. New album would not create. - Clicked create and nothing happened - Went to FB and created there 2. Then tried to submit some to FB to the newly created albums - Waited 5-10 minutes and nothing is showing up on FB. Is this a Smugmug problem or Facebook issue? Update 5 hours later and 0 published to one FB gallery and 9 out of 155 in another. Thanks, Steve go.skactionpix.com

We have fixed the issue regarding album creation at Facebook. We are investigating the publishing speed issues at the moment.

I'm searching for a method to show all of my pictures on facebook. I don't want to simple upload the pictures to fb. Because if I edit an image, I must reload it and if a user comment it, I also want to see the comment on my SmugMug site. Also if I add a new picture to my gallery, I want to see it automatically on fb. It is possible to do that, or need I use an other app? I do not find other apps, because there where deleted by fb :-/

Originally Posted by MSkaffari We have fixed the issue regarding album creation at Facebook. We are investigating the publishing speed issues at the moment.

Glad you fixed that, got very excited when pages were added then very sad when I couldn't actually send anything to Facebook since I couldn't get through the prompts. I too am noticing the speed problem.

I joined both the smugmug.com/goodies as well as my groovymoosephotos.com/goodies but I keep getting a screen that says something on the order of: before we begin you must connect to fb to allow access to your albums and to publish photos. When I click the FB link nothing happens. I have tried logging in to FB through the smugmug entry page but still get the same screen when trying the publish to fb option. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it? Thanks!

So we fixed an issue that was preventing emails being sent out saying your gallery was published. So if you never received an email, and assumed it didn't publish, you may want to check the gallery on facebook as it looks like most of them published successfully...

When I look in the admin, I see most of your photos as having published. The 155 Photo one, looks like it published all photos in about 6 minutes. I think it may have been a case of the email not being sent out, but let me know if I'm wrong....

Originally Posted by SPK64 Great to see these additions. Just tried to use it today and had problems. 1. New album would not create. - Clicked create and nothing happened - Went to FB and created there 2. Then tried to submit some to FB to the newly created albums - Waited 5-10 minutes and nothing is showing up on FB. Is this a Smugmug problem or Facebook issue? Update 5 hours later and 0 published to one FB gallery and 9 out of 155 in another. Thanks, Steve go.skactionpix.com

All mine are uploaded :)

Same issue I have..

I joined both the smugmug.com/goodies as well as my groovymoosephotos.com/goodies but I keep getting a screen that says something on the order of: before we begin you must connect to fb to allow access to your albums and to publish photos. When I click the FB link nothing happens. I have tried logging in to FB through the smugmug entry page but still get the same screen when trying the publish to fb option. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it? Thanks!

Originally Posted by stlracing Same issue I have..

Let me know if you figure it out and I'll do the same. Thanks, Chris www.groovymoosephoto.com

GroovyMoose, I'm trying to figure out what's going on with your FB login. So these are some common things that would prevent it from working:
1) Your browser is set-up to not accept 3rd party cookies. Can you check this?
2) Do you have some sort of pop-up blocker installed?
3) Is there any chance the window is opening up but being hidden somewhere behind another window?

Out of curiosity, what browser and operating system are you on?

We'll get to the bottom of it. Thanks for your response.

-Scott.

Originally Posted by GroovyMoose I joined both the smugmug.com/goodies as well as my groovymoosephotos.com/goodies but I keep getting a screen that says something on the order of: before we begin you must connect to fb to allow access to your albums and to publish photos. When I click the FB link nothing happens. I have tried logging in to FB through the smugmug entry page but still get the same screen when trying the publish to fb option. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it? Thanks!

Originally Posted by scotticus GroovyMoose, I'm trying to figure out what's going on with your FB login. So these are some common things that would prevent it from working: 1) Your browser is set-up to not accept 3rd party cookies. Can you check this? 2) Do you have some sort of pop-up blocker installed? 3) Is there any chance the window is opening up but being hidden somewhere behind another window? Out of curiosity, what browser and operating system are you on? We'll get to the bottom of it. Thanks for your response. -Scott.

Thanks Scott! I appreciate you guys looking into this.

1) I'm not sure where/how to check on the 3rd party cookies...
2) I did try disabling the pop-up blocker but still had the issue.
3) I don't think so. I'm running Windows 7 so can check what windows are open and don't see anything hidden.

I'm running Windows 7 Professional both at home and at work. I've tried using IE8, IE9, and Chrome as my browsers.

Extra info -
My control panel>view your social accounts shows that my facebook account is listed as a 3rd party site. Also, when logged in to FB I do not have to type in my username and password to log into my smugmug/website account. FB shows that I am allowing smugmug to access my account (although my FB Page is no longer listed since I tried to remove and re-setup the smugmug connection). I did try deleting the smugmug app from FB and then trying the Publish to FB feature but the FB link to connect and grant access still does nothing. That might be the key - the button doesn't do anything anytime that I click it. It doesn't even look like it changes slightly when I click it.

Thanks again,

Chris

UPDATE
I just set my security level to accept all cookies but still no luck. Not sure I like the idea of having to accept cookies from other sites. Is there a way to just allow them from smugmug?

I have followed the instructions and I have no advanced options when I click share, it just show the normal FB share. all I can share is the whole album.

Originally Posted by dbveto I have followed the instructions and I have no advanced options when I click share, it just show the normal FB share. all I can share is the whole album.

The Publish to Facebook button can be found in the "share" menu after you have signed up under /darkroom. Note that publishing is not yet available with the new gallery style.

Originally Posted by MSkaffari The Publish to Facebook button can be found in the "share" menu after you have signed up under /darkroom. Note that publishing is not yet available with the new gallery style.

Ok Thanks I found it, but it is not logging into facebook I click on the Facebook login button but it does nothing, I even opened another tab and logged into facebook but the button still does nothing