We are pleased to announce that the AppSheet Admin Console is now generally available - to all customers that have verified their domain(s) with Workspace.
The AppSheet Admin Console gives admins visibility into the users, apps and licenses associated with their AppSheet users. From here, admins can:
Review the most popular apps and creators.
Confirm how many apps are owned and used for every user account.
View all of their organization’s app users.
Verify the AppSheet licenses purchased, assigned and used.
Export a list of accounts, users, apps and licenses.
Since Public Preview, we’ve added more functionality:
Historical app usage: Admins can see app usage history for all accounts in their organization up to three months starting today and soon extending to six months.
Self-serve provisioning: Admins can choose how their enterprise licenses are provisioned - either through license assignment in the Google Admin Console or automatically upon login to AppSheet.
Organizations as the new standard: New and existing Workspace customers can manage all of their secondary domain users under a consolidated AppSheet organization.
What’s next
This launch is a significant milestone in our journey to simplify, automate and the admin experience, but there is so much more to come. We appreciate your patience as we undergo this transformation.
License page enhancements: Based on the initial feedback, the licenses page of the AppSheet Admin Console will remain in public preview, but we will launch an enhanced version in the first few months of next year.
External user licensing: Admins will be able to purchase licenses self-serve for their external, unauthenticated, and non-enterprise users without a seller or reseller.
Group based license controls: Customers that pool their enterprise licenses can define the group of users that are allowed to be automatically granted a license.
This is fantastic, it’s already greatly helped reduce extra costs for several of my clients!
One thing that would be nice to see, from an app dev point of view, would be an insight as to when would be the best times for maintenance on your apps.
Huge shout out to the team! Keep up the good work!
This is a great addition to user management. The only thing I see that is missing is reporting the users last known used app version. In the absence of being able to force users into new version, the next best thing is to be able to detect what version a user is on.
We have constant problems of our users not updating the app, in spite of repeated broadcast messages through 2 different tools, and are using older versions that are missing important recent updates. The only solution we can think of to 100% resolve it is to provide a new app COPY, shutting users off from the old copy and force them to the new. But that is extremely messy.
@WillowMobileSys - I will add this to our list of feature requests for the AppSheet Admin Console. In the meantime, however, I have a solution for you (although it does require a few additional steps). You can use the Legacy Admin API to gather the data on the latest used app version for every user in your organization as long as you are the admin. If you follow the instructions in this app script, you should be able to download this data to a Google Sheet of your choice. Hope that helps
While we might not be utilizing Major Versioning in the best way, it is the Minor Versioning updates where we are seeing the issues. It would be nice to review daily after an update, to see active users who have not yet updated and send them targeted messaging. Maybe we can reduce, if not eliminate, the occurrence of issues. Of course, the ability to force a version update would eliminate the need altogether!!
NOTE: There is post above from @alafontant with a script that can be used in the short term to retrieve the app version. We can probably integrate an automated message of some sort from that.
Did this change something in the licensing settings for organizations?
My organization has a Workspace license that includes AppSheet Core, and my apps were working fine for months prior to this. Then I got an email this morning from AppSheet saying that I’m on a Free account and need to upgrade. I contacted AppSheet support, who said that my org needs to assign me a license.
But this page says that “If you have a Google Workspace edition that includes AppSheet Core, you and other users in your organization automatically have access to an AppSheet Core license.”
I’m not an admin on our Google Workspace, so I’ll have to contact our IT department and ask them to look at our console and see if all the licenses got removed or something. But I don’t think they even use AppSheet, so it will probably will take some time for them to figure out the right person to send it to.
Nevermind, there’s apparently problems with the Google Workspace licenses generally at my org, our IT folks are working on it. I rescind my previously-posted sad face emoji.
