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Incorporating Facebook Messenger into Jitterbit App Builder

Instructions

  1. Get an App ID here https://developers.facebook.com/apps

    • Free to sign up
  2. Get your Facebook Page ID here https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2814101678867149

    • The Page ID is a numeric value, vanity url will not work.
  3. On the Facebook fanpage that is the target for Messenger, go to Settings>MessengerPlatform>WhitelistedDomains.

    • This has to be an HTTPS website.
    • IP Addresses and local host won't work
    • Make sure to click save!

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  4. Create a new HTML Template in App Builder and copy in the below code, substituting your App ID and Page ID you got in the above steps.

    <script>
      window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
        FB.init({
          appId            : '[AppID]',
          autoLogAppEvents : true,
          xfbml            : true,
          version          : 'v2.11'
        });
      };
      (function(d, s, id){
        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
        if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
        js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js";
        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
      }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
    </script>
    <div class="fb-customerchat" page_id="[PageId]"></div>
    
  5. Add the HTML control to the page of your choice. Once loaded it will follow you throughout the app.

Notes

  • This also works on mobile!
  • Facebook considers this to be in Beta
  • The end user will have to login to Facebook to be able to correspond. There is an alternative plugin that will allow just a one way message from the user to the business.
  • There are a lot of customizations, auto-replies, color, etc. Here is Facebook's documentaion.
  • The default is for the window to pop up on Desktop. On mobile it is set to be minimized. Desktop can be configured for this same behavior.