How to Create New a Instagram Business Channel
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This section describes for how to mechanism for create new instagram business channel, by doing the following steps :
Login as “Administrator“, click the “Integration” menu in the main menu and selecting “Channel Connector” to create and manage channels account.
On the channel connector page, click “plus” button in the Instagram business channel,
3Dolphins will be redirect you to pop up channel setting appears.
Component explanation :
Name
Description
App ID
A unique identification number will be added to your App.
App Secret
Facebook App will automatically generate a secret code which is connected with your App. Its purpose is to authenticate demands from the application towards Facebook servers. This code is also used as a password.
User Access Token
Access token to the Facebook API.
Copy and paste the ‘App ID’ in to the plugin settings page, within the instagram business channel settings box.
Do also copy and paste the facebook page ‘App ID’ to the settings page which can be found on the ‘setting’ section, select “Basic” from the drop-down menu. Settings basic console will be displayed. See image below.
Copy and paste the ‘App Secret’ in to the plugin settings page, within the Instagram business channel settings box.
Do also copy and paste the facebook page ‘App Secret’ to the settings page which can be found on the ‘setting’ section, select “Basic” from the drop-down menu. Settings basic console will be displayed, click the “Show” button on the app secret. See image below.
Copy and paste ‘User Access Token’ in to the plugin settings page, within the Instagram business channel settings box.
Do also copy and paste the facebook page ‘Get User Access Token’ to the settings page do the following steps :
Obtain Short-Lived User Access Token
Click “Tools” menu, select “Graph API Explorer”,
In Application, select an app used to obtain the access token,
Click User Token → Get User Access Token
On the pop up “Select Permissions”, under User Data Permissions check Email and under Events, Groups & Pages, Check manage_pages , pages messaging , publish_pages , instagram_basic and instagram_manage_comments Click “Get Access Token” button.
Click the access token field to copy User Access Token,
Check the properties in Access Token Debugger, click Tool to see the token in Access Token Debugger Paste the access token copied in the last step above to the text field and click “Debug” button.
Please check the followings:
App ID: the app id mentioned in the prerequisite section
User ID: you, a person who has admin right to the Facebook Page mentioned in the prerequisite section
Expires: a time stamp that would probably expires in an hour or two
Scope: should contain the “email”, “manage_pages”, “publish_pages”, “pages_messaging” permission.
Click Extend Access Token to get a long-lived token
Click “Debug” button,
Check the properties of this access token in Access Token Debugger. It should have a longer time such as 60 days, or Never in the Expires.
Check the properties of this page access token in Access Token Debugger:
App ID: the app id mentioned in the prerequisite section
Profile ID: the page id mentioned in the prerequisite section
User ID: you, a person who has admin right to the Facebook Page mentioned in the prerequisite section
Expires: Never
Click ‘Authorize’ button,
On the pop up, click “Add Page Channel”.
if authorize successful, click ‘Save’ button,
Instagram business channel ‘sri.amara.indriastuti’ has successfully created,
