Multiple Accounts Bug ... Why does it fail for some plugins and not for others?

[Jesse McCabe]

For years, my add-on has been a victim of this bug:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/69270374?pli=1

I can reproduce it by logging into two accounts in my browser and trying to run the add-on (Doc Variables) from the second account.  Yesterday, I tested other add-ons with the same context, some fail and others didn't.

I found two open-source add-ons that I could look at the code to compare and didn't see anything different in how they implemented their calls.

My function (that throws an error):

    var doc;
    try {      
      doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
    } catch (ex) {      
      throw new Error("Error loading Active Document.");      
    }
    return doc;

Their's (that work fine):

function getSelection() {
  var selection = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection();

and

    try {
      doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
    } catch(e) {
      return 'ERROR opening active document: ' + e + '\n\n';
    }

Has anyone dug into this issue more?  Is there a known workaround now?

Thank you for any help,

Jesse

[DimuDesigns]

There is no known workaround unfortunately. Best you can do is to advise your end-users to not login into multiple accounts or better yet encourage them to maintain separate chrome profiles for each of their accounts and only log into one account per profile.

[Jesse McCabe]

Thanks, I figured I would have heard if there was a fix.  And I have done everything I can do to give notifications to users, but that doesn't prevent people from leaving bad reviews saying it doesn't work.

However, I am still confused that some plugins work and some don't with pretty much the same code...

[Andrew Roberts]

I think there are instances where the move to v8 has made things worse. Similar "issues" on the tracker suggest going back to Rhino.

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[Jesse McCabe]

Is it even possible to go back to Rhino now?  I do think the add-ons I saw it working with have not had updates in quite a while... I wonder if that's part of it.

[Andrew Roberts]

In the script editor's "Settings" you can disable V8, which forces it back to Rhino (and adds a new item in the appscript.json).  

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