Until recently I was able to add new tables from Sheets in the app that Iโm a co-author. But suddenly the option was gone, please see the image below. Was there any changes regarding this or am I missing something?
Hi @Jsenn
Are the sheets shared with you?
Yes, it is shared with me.
Another thing I notice is I can still add table using the โsuggestionโ beside the Add New Table button.
I think the restrictions for team-data sources has beenโฆ enforced; perhaps it wasnโt 100% before and now it is.
Looks like the person who owns the app needs to share their data sources with the team
Thanks for the information. Iโm still confused though. Just a background regarding our setup. Iโm the one creating the apps using a free account, when it is ready for deployment I transfer the ownership to another account where it will be deployed. The data resides in a shared Google drive folder which is associated to the Appsheetโs account where all the apps are deployed. Once it is deployed I manage and update tables as a co-author. Until a couple of days ago I was able to that but now I canโt.
I was reading through different articles and found about Team Shared Data Source.
https://help.appsheet.com/en/articles/954445-shared-authoring-of-apps
According in this article co-authors can only add tables if it is from a Team Shared Data Source so that might really be the case now. As far as I can tell this is an Enterprise feature and we are only running on a Pro plan but its weird that we were able to do what we are doing until now.
I also found this under My Account.
We tried to add a data source in the Pro account but nothing changes, it still says โ+ New Data Sourceโ. At this point I still have no idea where to go and Iโm not sure if the above is related to our current concern.
How do you guys manage and update your deployed apps as a co-author?
As someone whoโs been a full-time AppSheet consultant for 5 years now, being able to add data sources to an app thatโs shared with you has never really been a thing. It might have worked once and a while, but adding a new data source has always been restricted to the โowner accountโ of the app.
You could add tablesโฆ from a data source already connected, but you couldnโt add new data sources.
When this situation arises, I either:
When I build apps for clients, Iโll start a new gmail account specifically for that app; name is something like:
Apps_Name.app@gmail.com
This way anyone who needs access to the backend can be given the credentials without compromising anyoneโs security or accounts, everything is housed under one account one drive, etc.
I apologize if I was not clear. What you said was what Iโm trying to say. Normally this is what I can see when adding tables.
Now this is the only thing that appears when adding a new table.
For now Iโm able to add the new tables through the suggestion, its a bit weird I would say but at least it works for now.
Apologies, I misunderstood.
Indeedโฆ this is a bug. Reporting to support now.
Any updates here? we have the same issue
Iโm still seeing this issue too
@Steve maybe you could do a little investigation through back channels? haha
Escalated.
Iโm told that anyone that wants the old behavior restored must request it. Please contact support@appsheet.com.
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