As mentioned in my previous post, for the company I work for I have created a facebook page. Initially, I would always get to see the “Getting Started” page of facebook whenever I was using my personal account to view the AIMMS facebook page. After I got enough of likes, this getting started tab page was automatically removed.

However, if I used my personal account to view the facebook page, I still would not be able to see any of the custom tab pages I created: almost every tab page I would click on resulted in a redirect to the getting started page of facebook, which redirected automatically again to https://www.facebook.com/aimms.optimization?skip_nax_wizard=true, which defaulted to showing the wall of the AIMMS facebook page. This was especially annoying for the insights, as I was not able to view the insights. The only workaround for this was to click on the link “Use facebook as AIMMS”, after which I was able to see the insights. I just did not like the additional steps required for it

After I created the page, I made one of my colleages an administrator also. The other day I checked with him and when he was using his account, he was able to get to the insights tab page and all the other tab pages, while being logged in with his personal account.

On the internet, the only thing I could find about the skip_nax_wizard=true, is that it would automatically disappear. After I saw that for my colleague there was no problem, I figured there must have gone something wrong with my account.

I filed a bug-report with facebook and right away got the message that they will read all the bugs, but might not respond to them. However, after a couple of days, I went back to the company facebook page with my personal account and all of a sudden I got two additional questions again, one of which was to provide a picture for the facebook page (which I already had set up). It appeared somehow a small reset was done somewhere.

The best news was that from this moment on, I am now able to view the insights of the company page without having to first use facebook as AIMMS again!

If you do have a similar problem, you might want to try to just send an error report to facebook.

The majority of the blog has always been about the SynCE-KPM project I was working on. While I had a windows mobile phone, this project was very useful for me. For the last 1.5 years, I have been very happy with my android device, which means that I am not working on the SynCE-KPM project anymore…

Over the last couple of months, I have been very active for my work to see how I can get the AIMMS users more involved and active. One of the things I did start quite some time ago already was the AIMMS google group. Over the years, this group has become a bit more active.

Besides the google group, I also started a new AIMMS blog in November last year. As you can see there, I have been quite a bit more active on that blog compared to my own person blog here I think the AIMMS blog is a nice opportunity of disclosing information to as many people as possible with as little effort as possible.

After I had started the AIMMS blog, one of the other things I started to take a look at was the social media sites, like facebook and Twitter. After just setting up the AIMMS facebook page, I decided that I wanted to create a custom landing page. Initially, I created this with just a simple FBML page. However, after some time I started to create my first AIMMS tab page application as a welcome tab.

The current project I am working on is to create a new facebook application that will allow any user in Facebook to request a free AIMMS trial directly from within facebook.

So instead of blogging about SynCE-KPM, I might start blogging a bit more about my experiences with creating new facebook applications

Recently I got a new phone: the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Before this I had pretty much every phone of the MDA series of T-Mobile (the branded version of the HTC phones). From the first windows mobile phone I got I have always had the ones with a QWERTY keyboard. I found this to be very useful when I am typing emails or surfing the internet. So when my contract was ending, I decided that again I wanted to have a phone with a QWERTY keyboard and fortunately t-mobile just released their branded X1

One of the new things of the X1 is the panel display, where you have the 9 different panels to access different kind of tasks easily. This new function was something I did not really use. One thing I still was missing for windows mobile was a good native client for Facebook. My wife has a blackberry from her work and there is a very nice facebook client for the blackberry. It struck me as a bit odd that no really good client yet existed for Windows Mobile. I even got to the point of thinking how difficult it would be to start programming a simple client myself…..

Luckily, this last bit was not needed and I finally found a use for the panels. When looking at the sony ericsson X1 page, I found that there was a new facebook panel, which appears to be working quite well. It sure beats using the mobile portal m.facebook.com

Waiting for more interesting applications, either as a panel for the X1, or just windows mobile applications in general.