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About that Installable Checkbox...

 

Greetings Developers!

I wanted to elaborate a little more on some changes to Data Availability.

If you remember, a few weeks ago an 'installable' checkbox appeared when you edit your application details.

What does installable mean?

Installable means that the app can be added to your  users' home/profile surfaces. It also means that it is an Opensocial app, as opposed to an external app, (which has installable unchecked). Installable unchecked identifies the app as external for Data Availability.

Developers can change their installable status for those apps that never went live. Any LIVE app loses the ability to change the installable status, and the checkbox is grayed out.

Any app, which has Installable unchecked, also won’t have access to Edit App Source page and tab.

Any developer who attempts to uncheck the installable checkbox will receive a warning stating that their source code is going to be deleted. Upon un-checking then saving, all the source code for that app will be deleted.

The reason you lose the ability to edit your apps after you uncheck this box, or receive the above mentioned warning message -is that once you have marked your app as external, we no longer expect the source to be hosted by MySpace.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Rhonda

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Comments

 

Egg said:

If only it would stay checked during development :( every 10-15 saves it seems to forget that it was checked.

July 18, 2008 9:41 PM
 

rondata@myspace.com said:

Hi Erik,

We're looking into that. :)

July 18, 2008 11:03 PM
 

Ryan said:

It seems to be clearing every 2-3 saves for me at the moment... it's getting quite annoying :(

July 20, 2008 8:55 PM
 

Jeremy said:

Same here, I uncheck it, it re-checks almost every time.

July 22, 2008 12:50 PM
 

Ryan said:

It seems there is a real problem in getting the Installable checkbox to either stay checked or unchecked...

The issue with getting it to stay checked, while incredibly annoying, can be worked around.

For me the biggest issue is trying to keep that box unchecked for external apps, as this is preventing me from publishing - it keeps complaining that there aren't any panels defined, which there won't be for an external app!

Can we please get someone to look at this and fix it ASAP?

July 22, 2008 9:57 PM
 

Marh-The first hood social app developer! said:

That's what happened to my app too.  Ms. ROndata.  I don;t get it .  I can't do anything anymore.

July 25, 2008 8:03 PM
 

BOMBSITE said:

My app was live and the profile and home surfaces were hosted by MySpace, but now my app is uninstallable, and the installable check box is greyed out.  Please advise.

August 11, 2008 12:27 AM
 

►►YuYu◄◄ said:

The same is happening with my app. It is live and has users, now the installable check box is greyed out and none of the existing users can open it.  Obviously it is not getting any new installs either.

August 15, 2008 7:49 AM