As a developer, 4 weeks back I have unpublished GSuite marketplace app(Spreadsheet addon) through Chrome web store developer dashboard. On Chrome web store dashboard status is updated. But it is still visibile in GSuite marketplace search listing (don't know why). Probably this is Google bug that even after marking unpublish it is visible in public marketplace.
Not getting much quick support for requests raised to Google to delete this app from marketplace.
Query: I want this app to be deleted from GSuite marketplace. My question is if I mark my app as "unlisted" through chrome web store developer dashboard, then will it remove GSuite marketplace listing? Can anyone please confirm.
From this page:
How can I manage and uninstall the applications I have installed from the Marketplace?
By clicking on "Manage Apps" on the top right of the Marketplace,
users can view the applications they have installed. From there they
can rate, review and uninstall applications (unless admin-installed).
There's also Delete an app in Gsuite Marketplace which states the same steps.
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I received an email from Google saying that my webapp (www.Photopea.com) is unpublished from the Google Workspace Marketplace, because I did not provide a privacy policy URL.
According to their web, Photopea has been installed 1.352 million times and many people are complaining to me that they can not find it in the marketplace.
When I go to "Google Console" - "Photopea" - "APIs and services" - "Google Workspace Marketplace SDK" - "Store Listing", I see "Unpublished (Rejected)". The "PUBLISH" button is gray and says "Currently disabled.".
Is there a way to publish it again?
*** I don't know what "Google Workspace" is, I am not aware of ever using it. My only goal is to let people double-click PSD files in their Google Drive to edit them in Photopea. It worked perfectly since 2016 until now.
I followed all recommended steps for setting up a PWA which can be installed on the user device, following the guideline here: Installable PWAs (MDN):
To make the website installable, it needs the following things in place:
- A web manifest, with the correct fields filled in
- The web site to be served from a secure (HTTPS) domain
- An icon to represent the app on the device
- A service worker registered, to allow the app to work offline (this is required only by Chrome for Android currently)
Still, I don't see the browser-default installation prompt.
How do I find out, why my PWA cannot be installed?
I recommend using Lighthouse, which is an excellent tool for auditing your web app with respect to different categories, including PWA properties. It is also available in Google Chrome in the developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I / Cmd-Opt-I and select tab Lighthouse).
How do I trigger a PWA audit in Lighthouse (in Google Chrome)?
Choose the category Progressive Web App and then click on Generate report.
Example report
In the example below, you can see that there are some issues present. But the reason, why you don't see the installation prompt is the service worker. Apparently, it isn't registered as expected.
Web app manifest or service worker do not meet the installability requirements
So a new surprise from GSuite Marketplace. For some of our users the next thing happens:
- install the app in the marketplace
- go to admin.google.com >> apps >> marketplace apps
The app is not there. The worst part is that we can't even reinstall, because when the user goes to the app page in the marketplace, he sees "Please uninstall app for domain in Admin Console.", but as mentioned above we don't see it in the console :facepalm:
So somewhere it is installed, but we can't see it in the admin console.
Please advise what could b causing this, and how we might attempt to remedy this issue.
I would suggest you to look in to the reports (Admin.google.com > Reports >audit Logs > token ) to check if in fact it was actually installed and to which users it was.
If still you cant find it, in the reports neither. You can contact Google Support so they can tell you why is not there.
We've been getting this installation error when our users try to install the apps marketplace app.
How do we resolve this?
Is the error being seen by Google Apps domain administrators or non-admin domain users? If its latter then its likely the domain administrator has not enabled install for non-admin users in the domain.
I've figured out the issue but do not know how to resolve this.
We had tried to update our marketplace app manifest file but due to some issue on Google's end, the updated manifest file was not being uploaded and this error was being thrown
This item is not an app, please remove app section from manifest , google apps marketplace
So we removed the "app" section from the manifest file and uploaded it. This has resulted in our marketplace app becoming a Chrome extension rather than a marketplace app and causing the issue.
Currently if I try to edit and upload a version of manifest file with "app" section, it won't allow me to upload it, showing the same error as before. So there is no way that I know which can solve this issue.
If anyone can help me out with this it will be really helpful. Registering a new MP app, getting approval from google and moving all users and reviews to new app will be really painful.
From the "Pre-installed Apps and Extensions" management in "Google Apps Admin console / Device management / Chrome / User settings / Apps and Extensions", the list of suggestions should only show Chrome extensions and Chrome applications.
Currently, it also shows "Google Drive Add-ons" and "Google Apps Marketplace applications", so, it's confusing for administrators because they don't know which one to select for automatic installation. Moreover, selecting a "Google Drive Add-on" or a "Google Apps Marketplace application" from "Pre-installed Apps and Extensions" has no effect.
For examples, you will find "Table of contents" (that is a Google Drive Add-on) and "LumDocs" (where you have a Chrome Application and a Google Apps Marketplace application).
I was able to reproduce it so it's either a bug or expected behavior now that end users can install Google Apps Marketplace apps themselves.
This type of report should be submitted to the Google for Work team via phone or support.google.com/a > Contact Us. They'll be able to confirm the behavior and provide more details.