Question

I’m using the Fb.ui send dialog to hopefully allow users to connect to other users. I want to know if there is anyway to track the use of this dialog box so I can tell if users are taking advantages of it.

Answer 1

You could track the usage of the send dialog by putting in some simple tracking at 3 different stages

1. User clicks on your ‘send message’ button to open the dialog
2. User opens the dialog but clicks cancel
3. User opens the dialog and then sends a message

Here’s some sample code demoing how you can add a callback to the send dialog and determine whether or not the user actually sent a message. Although please note that there seems to be some issues with this at the moment and I’m not totally sure that the send dialog supports callbacks fully yet.

FB.ui({
          method: 'send',
          name: 'Google',
          link: 'http://www.google.com',
      }, 
     function(response) {
        if (response) {
            // user sent the message
        } else {
            // user clicked cancel
        }
    });