Essentially, this is a feature request. (Non-urgent request)
Recently I noticed a request from one of our company’s managers about getting an email or a notification each time we make a change to any of the apps, versions and features. While I would love to do this, realistically it is a challenge. Our team that changes and pushes out app updates for these features make many changes so most times unless you have brilliant communication skills to where you tell each other of every change, it’s nearly impossible to keep track and notify our managers of these changes with our workload.
We are currently searching for a solution, so I thought I’d share my ideas for a work around.
A1: Add a feature to the tulip player where each player can open up an app’s changelog and see the latest published changes from publish notes, maybe even add an option to send an email in the publishing options.?
(Half-baked ideas:)
B1: Make an app for notifying users/user groups when table is updated, table will contain all info of last made changes
B2: (Experimental Feature) Try to make an AI Agent to update table with list of all latest changes from a certain date/time, (ex: all published changes) then rerun the agent weekly and make sure to review it weekly for accurate results
I am positive there are better ways of going about this but would like some outside input considering I am just one person. Any thoughts and ideas or critiques would be great.
One thing worth noting: I am trying to avoid making a massive google docs page where each of us input a list of changes and send an email each week of it.
Hello Jade, this is definitely an interesting request. If this was solved at the Player level, I imagine it would be annoying for a user to scroll through each app and look at the notes. What is your manager trying to accomplish? Are they just curious, or are they looking for proof that app updates are keeping up with revs of new product developments, or something else?
From what I can tell from their request, they are looking for a way to become aware of any updates or changes made to most used apps and their features, like button logic.
We have made and continue to make some changes to popular apps, so I think they just want a way to stay “in the loop” so to speak. Currently, the most viable solution looks to be option “B1-B2”. Complicated, but feasible. Any other takes on ways to approach it are welcome.
Hmmm interesting. My first thought is to use the Activity Feed, and then command+ F on the word “publish” to find all the newly published apps from the last week. Then, they could click into each one and either read the version description or use the “Compare App Versions” tool to look at changes: Compare app versions
In fact, since the Activity Feed URL is static, you could even do this with some automation in a Chrome Extension:
Visit the URL once a week via automation
Automatically log every link that is part of an Activity Feed event involving app publishing
Send an email to the supervisor once a week with all the apps that have changed recently
They click into each one to view the app description or compare app versions
