Has anyone been able to pass appParams through an app invite, so when the user accepts an invite the appParams will also be passed through? Thanks, Lijen

I'd love to know this too. Currently it's difficult to improve invites because there is no way to track their performance.

It sounds like its possible based on this:

http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=App_Invites#Including_contextual_information:_Custom_App_Params

but unfortunately, theres no documentation on it! Here's my code, its using OS 0.7. Im assuming that I just need to pass some params into the existing call that will get added to the invite button. Anyone?! Thanks in advance

function sendInvite(userId, name, thumbnailUrl, profileUrl){
var params = {};
//Set The title of the message
params[MyOpenSpace.Message.Field.TITLE] = "Title Of Invite";
//Set the type of message
params[MyOpenSpace.Message.Field.TYPE] = "SHARE_APP";

var message = container.newMessage('Install vDream Message', params);

container.postTo(message, postback, userId, name, thumbnailUrl, profileUrl);

}

I'm not sure if you wanted to know this to implement install source tracking or for some other purpose, but for install tracking it's possible to track invites through the "install callback" in app settings.

ahh, thats interesting. But with the install callback, does it pass additional information so that we can track where the install came from? How will I know that someone installed it from accepting an invite vs clicking on a profile widget link or a link in the app directory?

I just tried making an install callback and discovered that one of the GET args is install_location=appinvites. Probably something similar for other sources, but in any case invites are the only ones where we couldn't pass appParams, so all bases should be covered with this :)

None of the big apps I checked are passing appParams in invites, so I am guessing it must be impossible.

I take that back. I found a working example of passing app params, right in the documentation! http://developerwiki.myspace.com/index.php?title=App_Invites Search for the word "casino" on that page to see the code snippet. I just tested it and passing params like that seems to work fine.

 Thanks,

Joel

Yea, I noticed that too. I think it was just added a couple days ago. My problem is that I'm running through ifpc, and I'm unable to get it to work there. Any word on if ifpc support will be added for this?

 Messaging between iframes can be accomplished by the instructions shown here:

 http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Messaging_from_an_IFrame

There are some js includes as well as the html file used for relaying the calls that you host. Let me know if this is helpful.

 

thanks,

Joel