Request / Suggest an App from within Self Service

mellis
New Contributor

Just wandered if there is an option to allow users to suggest / request an app from within Self Service? If not, I'll post this to the Feature Request because our users do not have access to the App Store, so for them to be able to suggest an app via a simple button in Self Service would be good.

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anastnic
New Contributor

The best way to do this in my opinion would be to add a section to Self Service with apps they can request (apps you would be willing to package). The app's would look like any other in Self Service, but instead of "install" the button below the icon would say "request." You can then essentially create packages that do nothing when "requested." To let your customers know they are being heard though, you can have the package email them/show a notification. The notification/email can say, "Thank you for requesting XYZ. We appreciate your input. Please contact us with any questions." You could possibly use something like this for the email option andrina_mail-user.py Then using a policy, deploy the packages to all users, and make the install progress of those packages visible in your JSS's dashboard. Whichever package has the most requests by whatever time your technology team specifies, will start being packaged. Hope this helps