Audience controls for Embedded Apps?

[chshipma]

Is there a way to define the audience allowed to access a specific embedded app?

[chshipma]

My primary use-case: I'm developing an app that should only be consumed by Cisco Employees.

Secondarily:

While piloting an embedded app in an organization, I would prefer to be able to allow only that org to access it.

Thirdly:

While developing the embedded app, I'd like to extend access to the app to additional developers to help with the development. Right now, because I'm the developer, it's tied to me which means my other devs can't help me develop and test it.

Happy to open a feature request but I thought there might already be opportunities available and that I should check first.

[Raffaele Lagana]

Ok thanks for this information. As Jeff described, currently the only way to make the app available to other developers is by getting it approved, at least privately in the org, that way any other user within the org can access it and use it.

And to that, given that you are planning to only make it available only to the cisco employees, approving it privately in the cisco org is the way to go. This will only make it available to the org users, so all cisco employees would have access to it.

There isn't any other way to give access to other developers while it's in development. They'd have to create their own embedded app and maybe then use the same code base or something. You can create a feature request for this, as it isn't possible at the moment.

[Jeff Marshall]

An embedded app can be in-development, meaning only the creator of the EA would see it in the app list. You can request admin approval and if your org admin approves it through Control Hub then everyone in your org would be able to see it. You can submit to App Hub and if approved then it would show up for any Webex user in their app list. When it's admin approved for the whole org there isn't currently a way to allow/deny access at the individual user level like you can do with an Integration. This would need to be a feature request, which you can submit through https://ciscocollabcustomer.ideas.aha.io/.

[Raffaele Lagana]

Hello, we would probably need more details on your exact use case, but in general there isn't a way through EA functionality to restrict usage to only certain types of users, it would need to be managed by the developer through some API usage (for example the /people API if you want to restrict certain users or something). Don't know exactly what restrictions you want to impose though.