Open a FB Event on your FB App by scanning a QR-Code

Problem

We have created a QR-Code which contains an URL to our FB event. Scanning the code opened the mobile browser of our android devices and showed us the main login start screen of facebook without any hints of our event. On our mobile devices we use the facebook app only and I don't know anyone who uses his mobile browser to login on facebook.

Solution

The solution is relatively simpel. Instead of open the mobile webbrowser after scanning the QR-Code, you have to open the Facebook App and forward the URl to your event automatically.
You can force this by editing the URL.

For example your FB event URL is called:
http://www.facebook.com/events/123456789

Then you have to change it to:
fb://event/123456789

If you add this new URL to a QR-Code and scanning it, your FB App will start automatically and show the user your event page with all information to participate.


Thanks for reading 

/Edit: Apparently it doesn't work with all QR-Code Scanner Apps, e.g. the app "Barcode Scanner" for Android can not interprete the argument and gives an error message.

References

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/10/21/facebook-url-scheme-pages, 09.05.2013.