Availability and B2B information through ConnectAPI?

[mattinasi]

We have automation scripts to publish custom-branded apps in our customers' B2B stores. The final publishing had been working fine but has stopped, due to a change in how App Store availability works since the big API change a couple months ago.

Currently there are 3 Availability options on the App Store Connect website:

1. Available on the App Store, for volume purchasing on Apple Business Manager, and for volume purchasing at a reduced price on Apple School Manager
2. Available on the App Store and for volume purchasing on Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager
3. Available for private distribution to specific organizations on Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager

We are using Tunes.Availability.enable_b2b_app! and update_availability to add our customer's DEP ID and ORG.

      availability = Spaceship::Tunes.client.availability(build.app_id)
      
      # only add the dep org if it is not already there
      if availability.b2b_organizations.count { |org| org.dep_customer_id == dep_id && org.name == organization_name } == 0
        availability.enable_b2b_app!
        add_map = {'type' => 'ADD', 'depCustomerId' => dep_id, 'organizationId' => nil, 'name' => organization_name}
        add_org = Spaceship::Tunes::B2bOrganization.new('value' => add_map)
        availability.update_dep_organizations([add_org])

        Spaceship::Tunes.client.update_availability!(build.app_id, availability)
      end

However the result now is that the second option is selected (Available on the App Store and for volume purchasing on Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager) and when we try to deliver it to the B2B store it fails with

Fastlane error: The request cannot be fulfilled because of the state of another resource. - Submit for review errors found.
An attribute value is not acceptable for the current resource state. - An app with APP_STORE distribution may not have organizations.

When I manually select the 3rd option (Available for private distribution to specific organizations on Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager) and run the deployment script it succeeds.

I presume the old Tunes mechanisms are not quite valid now, and have been looking for a way to update the B2B availability via ConnectAPI but I cannot find it... am I missing something? Is there a way to select the 3rd availability option via fastlane?

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generated on: 2020-09-15

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[max-ott]

I don't think this is added / supported yet. I'm sure @joshdholtz can shine more light on it.

[mhleiftaylor]

We used to do it this way as well @mattinasi
I think the old Tunes object hasn't been keeping up with the Appstore Connect changes.
We are having to do all the B2B stuff manually right now. Big PITA for our ci.cd pipeline.

[joshdholtz]

@mhleiftaylor Sorry about that! I can start looking into this this week and try to get it fixed for you 💪 I'm not too familiar with B2B so I may have some questions for you along my journey if that's okay.

[mattinasi]

@joshdholtz - thank you! 😸

If I can help test it or review please let me know

[joshdholtz]

@mattinasi Do you happen to have an Organization ID that I can test with? 😬 I'm able to add support for Apple ID but I don't know how to make the request and test for Organization ID since these requests are not added to the docs yet. Feel free to send me an email at me@joshholtz.com if you want to communicate over that!

[joshdholtz]

@mattinasi It also turns out that this is not available in the official App Store Connect API meaning that this will only work over a a web session with Apple ID and not with the App Store Connect API Key (yet) 😔 I'm filing a radar for adding this ability right now.

[mattinasi]

@joshdholtz Thanks for the info!

I presume we have to do this manually until App Store Connect API supports it and fastlane is updated to use it?

[joshdholtz]

@mattinasi Nope nope! I'm working on adding the models and methods to Spaceship::ConnectAPI but it will only work with Apple ID auth for now 🤷‍♂️

[joshdholtz]

@mattinasi Hey sorry! Got sidetracked by some other things but here is the PR 😊 #17490

I dropped an example of how I tested it. If you want to test that this works for you that would be 💯

[mattinasi]

@joshdholtz - I will try and test this in the next day. It looks we will no longer be messing with availability and instead doing things on the app, and creating a CustomAppOrganization.

What is a CustomAppUser used for?

[joshdholtz]

@mattinasi I guess it's another way to make B2B work? I don't really know to be honest lol... But my app store account had an option to select by "Organization" or "Apple ID" so I added the ability to add both 🤷‍♂

[mattinasi]

Many, many thanks!! 🙏

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