Now Available: Set Custom Session Length

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To protect your organization’s data, we automatically sign out AppSheet users after 90 days. We’ve heard, however, that some organizations need different login durations for different use cases. For instance, if your users deal with highly sensitive data, a shorter session length might be needed.

That’s why as of today, we’re giving AppSheet root admins the ability to control their AppSheet team’s session length. This new feature allows team root admins to specify how long users can access AppSheet’s services before they need to reauthorize the service. Once you set a session length and refresh users’ credentials, all users – be they editors or users on web or mobile – will be asked to reauthorize AppSheet once their session expires.

The minimum session length is one hour, all the way up to a maximum of 90 days. While it’s available to all users, please note that it’s most effectively used in conjunction with Workspace Google services session length to not only require the user to authorize AppSheet, but additionally to enforce a re-authentication to a user’s overall Workspace account.

How to set your team’s AppSheet session length

  1. Sign in as a team Root Admin
  2. From the Home page, go to My Team > Settings
  3. You can now change the User session duration to a value that is suitable for the team that is going to use the apps.

For more details, check out this help article.

As always, please let us know if you have questions, feedback, or concerns :tada:

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This seems like a good addition.
I saw a post about someone with fears that an ex-employee could delete data and this seems to help around that kind of situations

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@Rachelgmoore

This is definitely useful additional feature, which is welcomed as well. Thank you for adding this. To get more flexibilties, we wish to have option to arbitrarily add the duration manually, within the range of 1hr - 90days. If it possible there will be a case the app creators wish to limit to 3 days while it seems we dont have such option to confiulate.

Additionally, currently this is global setting done by the admin account. It is more useful if we could overwrite this by “app level”. Based on the app, we may have requirements to control the length differently by app level, thank you for consideration.

@takuya_miyai

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