One thing that will help you is that google added the ability to be logged into multiple accounts simultaneously. You can switch between them with a dropdown. You have to turn this on in Account Settings somewhere, but after that it works pretty well.
I have a bigger complaint, although this may not be the place to do it. I recently began the transition from a gmail account to a google apps account. Almost everything works properly... except google groups. Apparently "groups" is a premium feature unavailable to Google Apps Standard. I understand they want to make the ability to create enterprise groups part of the paid package, but they have effectively blocked out participation in public groups (like this one). Right now I have to maintain my old gmail account just to read and respond to appengine and objectify email - LAME! Looking at it from a different angle, my opensource projects that use Google Groups have now blocked out Google Apps Standard users. This is broken, and a compelling reason to migrate off Google Groups. Jeff On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:58 AM, jay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Please allow me to rant for a few minutes about some very annoying > problems I've recently had with logins and authentication. Hopefully > somebody at Google will notice and forward the issue on to somebody > with some power to do something. > > A short preface: I use Google Apps for Business and after prompting, > foolishly "upgraded my account infrastructure". This has created a > problem where I can no longer be simultaneously be logged into my > Google Apps domain hosted email ([email protected]) and my Google > account ([email protected]). According to enterprise support this > change cannot be rolled back. > > Whats really annoying is that now that I'm logged into my email, I can > no longer be simultaneously be logged into my App Engine Applications. > To work around this I simply use 2 browsers. Chrome for email and > Firefox for everything else. > > The problem Im concerned about is that when I'm logged into my email, > and try and log into my App Engine Application I'm asked whether or > not I want to share my email address with the application. The only > options are yes or no. THERE IS NO OPTION TO CHANGE ACCOUNTS OR CREATE > A NEW ACCOUNT. > > example: http://blight.ironhelmet.com/static/LoginError.PNG > > If you choose "no" the login fails. Useres are expected to "just know" > that they need to go and log out of this account somewhere else before > they can log into my applications. > > Also: My Apps don't use Federated Logins because, similarly once > logged in there is no way for me to offer my useres a way to log out. > > I don't know how many of my useres are in a similar situation to me, > but I this is a very poor interface. I need my customers to be able to > create new google accounts for just my applications. I don't want my > useres to have to trust me with thier google account or email. It has > to be OK for them to create a throw away account for just my > applications. > > When I'm logged into my Google Apps domain hosted email > ([email protected]) and I visit Google Groups, I'm simply presented > with an error, but at least I have button that prompts me to sign out > of my current account. THIS WOULD BE PREFERABLE TO WHAT WE HAVE NOW. > > example:http://blight.ironhelmet.com/static/LoginError2.PNG > > Thanks for reading. > > Jay. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
