Help! My team can't access old builds in Firebase App Distribution!

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Colton Idle

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Jan 2, 2020, 9:59:52 AM1/2/20
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My team switched from MS App Center to Firebase App Dist. and now after using it for a few weeks, my team can't rollback to older versions due to the fact that there is some 30 app version history limit that I haven't seen declared anywhere. How can we get around this? Is there a way to tweak the URL or something to see more history? This is a deal breaker for us if it's not offered. This is really important to our App Testing flow. Can anyone provide information on this? Thank you!

Chintan Vaghela

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Jan 3, 2020, 3:03:19 PM1/3/20
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Hey Colton,

It's true that app distribution shows a max of 30 distributions that the tester has access to; however, we recently shipped a tester-side web search feature that lets testers search for and access any build they've been included on. For example, in the tester's distribution list we might show distributions 1.0 (37)  --> 1.0 (7). If the tester also has been included on 1.0 (5), they can use search to find and install that build (they can also search for specific release notes if they add feature or commit info to help locate builds).

We'll be releasing this same search feature soon in the tester Android app ("App Tester") as well for the best user experience.

Colton Idle

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Jan 3, 2020, 4:34:22 PM1/3/20
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That's awesome! Being able to scroll back would be the easiest... but at least being able to access an old artifact by name is a welcome change.

Also, the link you added is a slack link. How do I join that slack group?

Kato Richardson

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Jan 3, 2020, 4:40:16 PM1/3/20
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> How do I join the slack group?

Just visit https://firebase.community/  : D

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