Case: a developer coming into my company.
I just want to:
create an account for the person
set a role (front-end developer, for example)
click "Create accounts" button
Expected result: a SaaS creating a bunch of required accounts in all third parties by API provided earlier (it might be many different 3RD applications like AWS, Slack, Jira, etc).
The question: does someone know software for such needs?
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I created a free service that permits to control a French set-top box (which provides different services like TV, playing media, Netflix, …).
This set-top is a 3rd party product for me because I do not own the material, but because the constructor provides an API I've been able to create a service from end-to-end that controls the box. The box provider doesn't have any service published on Google to control their box and they do not plan to do it in the future.
I tested everything with my own Google Home account and everything is working fine. I'd now like to deploy/publish my service to all my users in Google Home… While I'm filling all the steps to publish my project, it's asking me to complete a form (Smart Home Certification form), but at the top of the form it says: “if your action is non-commercial (personal/hobby project) or you are implementing only the SCENE trait, do not submit the form.”
My action is non-commercial (it's a free service) and I'm maintaining it on my personal time (hobby project), so I'm not supposed to submit the form. But if I don't, then I cannot have my service published/deployed?!
Is it possible to publish a Smart Home Action without being a company that sells products/pays a developer to maintain the service?
For your information, I already published an Alexa Skill for this service 1 year ago and it works very well. I was waiting for Google to publish the Channel trait in French to release it. Right now I have to ask my users to create applets in IFTTT to make the service works with Google, which is not optimal and very painful…
I tried to reach to the ha-certification Google team but no answer after 2 weeks… So maybe someone in the community would already have experimented the same case as me!
Thanks
After sending emails around, I finally got an answer from a Google employee:
due to our new policies, we are now not launching any partners who are not tied to commercial products
I'm at the early days of looking into IdentityServer v3 and IdentityManager, as I'm certain those guys are more clued up than I, but I cannot see how to configure the IdentityManager.
If we're deploying IdentityManager to a client, all the client want to do is "standard admin type stuff", such as
create users
unlock accounts (e.g. after 3 failed login attempts)
suspend accounts (not paid your bill, tut tut...)
delete users
..rather than amend claims, roles and suchlike (presumably these would be hidden from the Administrators).
What am I missing?
Or, is the IdentityManager supposed to be used by the implementation team installing the thing, and then the business administrators who deal with the topics listed above actually don't use IdentityManager at all, but a separate admin site we have to write? As far as I can make out all the pages, htm letc is within the nuget package so cannot be amended by me.
If it makes any difference, we're trying to create a public facing website that can be logged into, but the users are only created by the company, whose admin site to create & administer the users is IP restricted / not public facing.
Identity Manager is aimed at developers and internal administrators for testing and initial configuration purposes, as opposed to end users.
Check out https://vimeo.com/125426951 by the repo's author. I think it's explicitly stated at around the 1 minute mark. It's mentioned on the Github issue tracker quite frequently too.
Also, it's not that extensible yet, so you won't be able to brand it or remove sections (such as your requirement of no claims).
In Google Apps, there is always a base/primary organization. But Google Apps can have subdomains and suborganizations both (or combination of those).
We want to be able to identify the currently logged-in user as being part of the overall organization, whether it be the primary org/domain or some subdomain or suborg. But when you get user info or license info, it returns the home domain of the currently logged in user as the ID for their organization. No ID is consistent across all subdomains or suborgs.
I've also tried listing all orgs using the organization apis, but that doesn't seem to work when trying to get the org info of the root org: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/manage-org-units
Is there a way, given a particular Google Apps user, to determine what the primary organization is?
The only alternative we have is to treat every domain/subdomain in the Google Apps org as it's own independent org. This is less than ideal because now a Google Apps admin who manages all of their sub-orgs/subdomains in one place in Google will now have to manage a separate organization in our app for each domain in their overall org. This uses up extra resources in our system for creating these additional orgs, but more importantly creates a very confusing organization/user management model.
When you look at the Users resource for the two users, compare the customerId attribute. If they match, the two users are in the same Google Apps account. If they don't they're not.
Also, don't assume two logged in users are in the same Apps account. One could be an Apps account and one could be a consumer account even though they have the same SMTP domain.
I've created an iOS Developer individual account because I want to upload an application that I've got developed from another developer. I want to allow the other developer to upload the application to my profile.
Can I manage users and add him as an admin to my iTune Connect? Is this facility available only for company accounts?
I saw this which says "You are the only one allowed access to Program resources." under individual registration.
http://developer.apple.com/enroll/selectEnrollmentType.php?t=nm
Only company accounts can allow multiple users.
Edited: This is based on experience. If you register as a company you can add additional accounts (via the Member Center). If you sign up as a user, you can only have a single account for logging into iTunes Connect.
This is what it means by "You can add additional developers to your team who can access Program resources." under the Company column on that select enrollment type page.
You can also add team members in an individual license. I am enrolled in the iOS and Mac OS program and have added two of my friends to work together with me on an app. The UI shows that this is the way it should be (in the upper right corner is written "Florian Pilz, Florian Pilz", whereby the first name is the name of the team agent [me] and the second name is the name of the user currently logged in [me in my case, another in the case of my friends]).
I am doing some dev work for a client. She has a Dev License should would like to put the app under but since she is non-technical it has been frustrating since she has to be the one to submit the final app.
Is there a way for a Dev License to have multiple Admins? I have it configured so I am a developer but as such I cannot do the Distribution License. Only she can do that. Is there a fix?
If you have a good relationship to your client, you might want to ask her for her login details so you can do it yourself.
There is one other possibility though: For a similar problem I was given the advice to build & archive my app and send the archive to the client. He could then resign the app using his certs, which would eliminate the need for him to do all the building stuff, not to mention it will spare you to surrender your source code. However, this will not eliminate the need for your client to enter all the meta information and so forth while uploading the app.
For the necessary steps to resign an app, see this answer.
To answer your original question: Each developer account has exactly one Team Agent. So you need some kind of workaround anyway.
There is only one administrative or Team leader per developer account. So you really need to plan on the policy for sharing use of that account from the beginning, if the required activities of the agent need to be split up among multiple parties, if you can't have one party capable of doing everything.
A shared account can be created from the beginning (either by the owner or the developer). I recommend an ADC account be created just for this purpose, instead of just using the owner's personal account and email address ( e.g. instead of mary.smith#sample.com, create and use iosdeveloper#sample.com for enrolling as an iOS developer. )
Account credentials can be "loaned" (perhaps with password changes after use).
You can be given remote access (VNC/RDP) into the owners PC or Mac (or more secure yet, a VM session) as or after they log in.
You can talk the owner though the process over the phone (or video chat, etc.).
Or, the owner can learn how to get certificates, and build or resign and submit apps themselves, perhaps using a comprehensive script.