Linking your app to an EXISTING page

Question

I've searched and searched and can't seem to find any info in regards to this...

We have a facebook page (facebook.com/companyname). We also have an app on facebook (apps.facebook.com/companyname). I can create a NEW community page from the app, but i cant link it to the existing page. How come? Is there any way to do so?

There's plenty of similiar questions and no one has had an answer yet.

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I have done significant research into this. There is no way to do this (though it's such a common use case where someone already has an active fan page and launching an app later)

Earlier every app used to have a profile page (which was not like fan page) and facebook at the start of the year gave ever app admin to move their likes to another fan page. This option has been removed.

There is another way that I have discovered.

• Create fan page for the app (from app details section) by clicking "Create Fan Page"
• Goto pages and select this newly created fan page and rename it to be the same as the other active fan page(with which you initially wanted to link to). This is needed because merge option appear when 2 pages have same name and same category.
• Goto your active (original) fan page, click edit page, goto resource and click on merge pages and do the marge.

However as someone has already reported, there is a bug in the system, on merging it removes the app link (something that will be fixed soon). Here is the link to the bug.

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/413029272079414?browse=search_5033475a2a50c9f73780526

Answer 2

I have been struggling with this same issue. It appears that the name do not need to match entirely but at least the app name needs to start with (part of) the page name. I found this since the page name was longer than the allowed max name length of the app. Paul