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I’m trying to set up and link the facebook sdk in some existing mobile apps to an existing fan page. I’m an admin for the fan page, so I have access to https://www.facebook.com/analytics/page_a_id/ for that page. I want to be able to track ad clicks —> app installs. I got a new app working with the sdk setting it up through https://developers.facebook.com/apps/app_b_id/dashboard/. But I want it to be linked to the first page, not a new app. How can I create an app and link it to that already existing fan page? I have followed the instructions from this answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/13904144/419194), and I was able to successfully see the page I want to connect on https://developers.facebook.com/apps/app_b_id/settings/advanced/ . However, events from the facebook sdk on Android still are reported in the analytics page for page_a_id. Why is this? Is there anything else I have to do? Or am I just misunderstanding how this all works entirely?

And just to keep me sane, this is the correct process, right? I only want to be able to feed the sdk into the analytics. I feel like many other people must have done this, but there seems to be a lot of confusion from various SO/FB help posts.

Austin Gayler
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    The page needs to be categorized as App Page (somewhere in the page settings; you have to remove all existing categories, and then start typing until App Page shows up), and the name of the page and the app must match. – CBroe Aug 02 '17 at 19:06
  • @CBroe Forgot to mention, I completed that step. – Austin Gayler Aug 02 '17 at 19:07
  • Are the ads you're tracking still associated with page A? – CBroe Aug 02 '17 at 19:09
  • @CBroe yes //filler – Austin Gayler Aug 02 '17 at 19:12
  • So, what exactly is wrong now? You said they where reported for "page_a_id" ... – CBroe Aug 02 '17 at 19:21
  • `https://developers.facebook.com/apps/page_a_id/settings/advanced/` does not make sense either; there is no access to any app dashboards via a page id. – CBroe Aug 02 '17 at 19:22
  • I want the data (events) from app_b to be visible in the analytics page of page_a. It currently goes to the analytics page of app_b. Does that make sense? Is that possible? Also I mistyped that--I was able to select the fan page from the developer page for app_b. Will fix in the post. – Austin Gayler Aug 02 '17 at 19:34
  • App install events are events that happen "to" the app, that has little to do with any page. I don't think there is any build-in way to achieve what you want. You could of course create your own dashboard, where you read and combine/present insights data from the app and the page in whatever way you see fight ... but that's gonna require some work. – CBroe Aug 02 '17 at 19:35
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/150873/discussion-between-ahota-and-cbroe). – Austin Gayler Aug 02 '17 at 20:47

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