What's new in Excel AddIn for Facebook 15.0.5816
Mar 26, 2016
- In V3, we have updated the CData Excel Add-In for Facebook 2015 to be compliant with the latest version of the Facebook Graph API. There have been some changes in how the Facebook Graph API works, which has forced us to introduce a number of changes that could break existing code. These changes are listed below:
- Insights
- Insights have been updated due to a number of changes in the Facebook API. The Insights view will largely work the same way it had previously. However, we now offer CreateAppInsightSchema to retrieve insights about a given app. If you are interested in checking on your Facebook App's insights, you will need to use this instead of the Insights view.
- Other Table Changes
- A number of various changes have been made across tables due to changes in Facebook. These changes are listed below:
- Facebook no longer allows public posts to be searched. We have had to remove SearchTerms from the Posts table because of this.
- Checkins have been removed from the Graph API. Due to this, we have removed the Checkins table.
- Events may no longer be inserted, updated, or deleted via the Graph API. We have had to change the Events table to a view.
- Usernames for Facebook Users may no longer be used as a target and are no longer returned. The Facebook username for Pages is unaffected.
- User ID's for Facebook Users will be different across different Facebook Apps. This is due to the new policy of App-scoped User ID's. From Facebook:
- "To better protect people's information, when people log into a version of your app that has been upgraded to use Graph API v2.0, Facebook will now issue an app-scoped ID rather than that person's orginal ID. However, for users that have previously logged into your app, the user ID will not change."