Is anyone adding in the ability to turn features o...
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creece
06/14/2023, 4:54 PMIs anyone adding in the ability to turn features on/off within their suiteapps? For example, you have to pay $X to get an advanced feature and once paid, can be enabled or even disabled. Just getting some ideas on how people are approaching this.
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Shawn Talbert
06/14/2023, 5:59 PMWe used to have a custom 'licensing' model for this years ago. Solutions would 'call home' to check licensing before doing the heavy lifting.
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Shawn Talbert
06/14/2023, 6:00 PMI don't think it was particularly secure against nefarious users trying to steal.
Shawn Talbert
06/14/2023, 6:01 PMhaving the important pieces locked was probably sufficient to deter most.
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Anthony OConnor
06/14/2023, 6:24 PM#subscribe
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creece
06/14/2023, 6:31 PMI've done the phone home thing in the past but not sure if its frowned upon these days. Would have to setup a restlet for it and just have the app call out as the first thing and bail if no license found.
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creece
06/14/2023, 6:34 PMDid you do a check every time functionality was going to be accessed or did you do a time based where it has to phone home every X days to make sure you're still valid?
creece
06/14/2023, 6:36 PMthat call would def add some decent overhead if every operation.
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ehcanadian
06/14/2023, 6:42 PMI do this. The suitelet calls home and adds additional features based on the license by including additional js files
ehcanadian
06/14/2023, 6:44 PMThe license is cached for 24 hours, unless there is a specific param added to the suitelet url to force reload of the license
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Shawn Talbert
06/14/2023, 7:14 PMI don't remember how configurable our solution was, but it would be nice to be able to tweak that phone-home setting depending on what the application actually does.
Shawn Talbert
06/14/2023, 7:14 PMe.g. if it's a process that only runs once a month, no need to check the license every day.
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reptar
06/14/2023, 7:42 PM360SB has some pretty cool code obfuscation going on. Unrelated? Idk, I don't do SuiteApps
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creece
06/14/2023, 8:24 PMyeah I wrote that a long time ago unless they re-did it
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Shawn Talbert
06/14/2023, 8:35 PMvery little SuiteScript code i've seen is anything I'd care to copy 🙂
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