For Developers: Do you plan to offer the updatechecker on your files?

[JoelR]

One of the great things that made working with third-party apps and plugins was the updatechecker, which automatically notified clients of a new version. 

They could update their main Invision Community software, and also update your mod.  It also meant clients had a valuable reminder to keep renewing.

Do you plan to offer the updatechecker on your files?  Why or why not?  

[Adriano Faria]

Yep. Using @Nathan Explosion app. 👍

[JoelR]

For anyone who needs a link to the Application update checker by Nathan, this is the link:

It's awesome ot see the IPS third-party community collaborate and share their expertise with each other.  So proud of everyone!  🥰

[abobader]

Yes for sure, thanks for this.

Edit: So it only for dev's personal, how we will as site owner will get benefit from this?

Edited October 10, 2023 by abobader

[Empire]

8 hours ago, abobader said:

Edit: So it only for dev's personal, how we will as site owner will get benefit from this?

Just wait they will come up with ideas and improvements for us, just give them time 😉 

Good to know 

[Nathan Explosion]

14 hours ago, abobader said:

Yes for sure, thanks for this.

Edit: So it only for dev's personal, how we will as site owner will get benefit from this?

You'll get benefit if a dev uses it as the ACP can then provide an indication that a new version is available.

[abobader]

Yes true Nathan, and I know about all that, all I can say now that all the dev's personals apply this.

[terabyte]

I made a custom database in Pages, and then I pointed all links to a page with a custom PHP block that returns the updated data in JSON format.

I've been using it since before the marketplace added the built-in update check. People with my mods installed will still get update notifications once the marketplace check is removed from Invision Community in a future version. 🙂

Edited October 16, 2023 by terabyte

[V0RT3X]

On 10/10/2023 at 12:46 AM, Adriano Faria said:

Yep. Using @Nathan Explosion app. 👍

Me too, adding it to all new and updated files. In my downloads system you can see where it is already implemented ...

[Adriano Faria]

5 hours ago, V0RT3X said:

In my downloads system you can see where it is already implemented ...

Interesting... 👏

[IC Essentials]

On 10/16/2023 at 6:12 AM, terabyte said:

I made a custom database in Pages, and then I pointed all links to a page with a custom PHP block that returns the updated data in JSON format.

I've been using it since before the marketplace added the built-in update check. People with my mods installed will still get update notifications once the marketplace check is removed from Invision Community in a future version. 🙂

Same, but the form became too annoying with all the custom fields

 

So I've created a custom application that grabs the data while the upload to the downloads app, extracts the version and stores it to a new metadata extension.
This way I don't need to care about updating it ever again,... just upload it to the downloads app and let the app handle everything else automatically in the background.

Edited October 20, 2023 by IC Essentials

[terabyte]

@IC Essentials That's way too many fields, I have only 8 fields in mine. And I only need to update 3 fields each time:

1. Human Version
2. Long Version
3. Release date
4. Release notes (I barely change this one, so not counting it)

[IC Essentials]

27 minutes ago, terabyte said:

@IC Essentials That's way too many fields, I have only 8 fields in mine. And I only need to update 3 fields each time:

1. Human Version
2. Long Version
3. Release date
4. Release notes (I barely change this one, so not counting it)

Yea, I thought it would be handy to manage everything via the DB but it didn’t work out aus expected.