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Please be sure to add issues like this to http://support.engagemodules.com so we can keep track of them. Any information for how to resolve the issue (from facebook documentation/links) will help to speed up the process of resolving the issues, please provide as much info as possible.

Chris

perfect, we will see if we can't get this corrected in the next release.

Brad, that's likely not something we would add to Publish directly, but with the templating engine you should be able to add the Javascript that facebook provides.

Personally I would go to the page linked below and copy the javascript they have there and either put it in all my skins, or in a module at the bottom of my article display page.

http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php

As for the original issue with Facebook, I think I have found the problem, and it might not actually be Publish causing the problem, but you might be able to get Publish to fix the problem by including a Meta Description with all your Publish articles. I'm testing this out now.

Chris, after some testing myself, I have found that once you attempt to share the page on Facebook, they cache it.
(so you only get one try per article)
I don't know how long they cache it, but you can change everything on the page and try to share the same link and you will get the old article information. (So you have to test your html code changes differently)

What I did was save the source of the page as an html file into the root of my site and then kept renaming the file while testing changes.

Here is what I found,
your meta name "DESCRIPTION" doesn't' work because it must be all lowercase. (It won't work as all caps).
It will also work with an ID tag, so DNN adding an html ID tag is no problem.

hope this helps,

Brad Bamford

So I've tracked this down further.

DNN makes the DESCRIPTION KEYWORDS and other meta tags in the pages all caps, which according to the XHTML spec is invalid. I believe that sites that aren't using XHTML skins will work as normal, but as soon as you change the doctype (as you must in Publish to use the email a friend functionality) facebook will then ignore the DESCRIPTION tag.

Right now the only suggestion I have for a fix is to manually change your default.aspx file in the root of your website to make DESCRIPTION be description.

This is what we would call a Core change, and is not normally recommended, but as of right now that's the only fix I know of. I'm working with the core team to see if this can be addressed in DNN in a future release. We won't be making any changes to Publish in regards to the Facebook functionality.

Thanks for your help tracking this as wel Brad.

Chris