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Christina Unger
Christina Unger

Reputation: 91

Google App Script Spreadsheet Add-on: Allow people outside of my organization to test it?

I wrote a Google Apps Script that implements spreadsheet add-on functionality. I and everyone in my organization can test it (via Run > Test as add-on). Now I want to allow one specific person outside of my organization to be able to test it as well, without having to publish it.

As far as I understand it from the information I found so far, there are only three permission schemes for scripts: private for me, private for my organization, public for everyone. Is that correct or is there a way to grant access to specific persons?

That person has a Google account, just outside of my organization, and has access to both the App Script and the spreadsheet.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1230

Answers (1)

Andres Duarte
Andres Duarte

Reputation: 3340

The permission schemes you're mentioning (private for me, private for my organization, public for everyone) it's the Add-on visibility [1], which only applies for published Add-ons. You or any user with at least read permission on the Add-on's script and Spreadsheet can test the Add-on without having to publish it following these steps from the documentation [2]:

1) Open the add-on's script project in the Apps Script editor.

2) Select Publish > Deploy from manifest... to open the Deployments dialog.

3) In the Latest Version (Head) row, click Install add-on to install the currently saved version of the add-on in development-mode. If you install the Latest Version (Head) of the add-on, any changes you make to the add-on code are applied immediately without you needing to reinstall it.

4) Alternatively, you can create a versioned deployment and install that instead. This can be helpful if you want to 'checkpoint' a version of the add-on to compare it to the version under development.

[1] https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/how-tos/editor-publish-overview#visibility

[2] https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/how-tos/testing-gsuite-addons

Upvotes: 1

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