I have made two alias requests on the 19th of April and so far I haven't received any email. Is this normal?
Also, two days ago I also did the request for all my other gadgets. This time I have submitted also the gadgets with the new location. On Apr 22, 9:52 am, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Leo, Rik, > I noticed a couple incorrect responses to gadget aliases went out over the > last week or so. I manually checked the consumer secrets and thought I'd > followed up any incorrect emails to say that the aliases had been done. It's > possible I missed yours Leo. > > I looked up your alias request just now and it was done a while ago. I > tested it by looking up the gadget at the old url, adding it, then checking > to see what gadget was installed. The installed gadget is the one at the new > url. This is correct behavior for a gadget alias. It means that any users > who have your gadget installed from the old url will now instead get the > gadget from the new url. The old listing remains in the directory (though I > don't remember if this is permanent). > > As Rik pointed out, an alias request will fail without the leading uri > scheme - http:// . This happens when the automated tool processes the > request at least (which it will be again soon). > > Rob Russell > Google Developer Relations > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Rik <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I remember correctly the new gadget also needs to be submitted to > > be found in the gadget directory later on, but it doesn't matter for > > your alias request afaik (both situations worked for us). > > > We had also a rejection like yours which we also didn't understand for > > the same reasons. For our second attempt we just used the same values > > and it got accepted. There are only two reasons I can think of right > > now: > > 1. A type-O by me (not copying the first or last character) > > 2. The Google servers haven't got to processing the newly generated > > secret and is therefore unknown in the "alias-request-department". > > But maybe someone from Google can shed some light on it? I can only > > tell from my own experience and that's not a lot... > > > On Apr 21, 7:47 pm, DigitalLeo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it. > > > > I would have one more question. Did you have to resubmit the gadgets > > > with the new location or isn't that necessary when doing the alias > > > request? > > > > My first attempt was rejected because of the following reason: > > > > Alias http:/<old-gadget-url>.xml => http://<new-gadget-url>.xml has > > > failed: an invalid consumer secret was entered for the old gadget > > > > ...which is weird, because I copy-pasted the consumer secret right > > > after verifying it. > > > > On Apr 20, 12:45 pm, Rik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We've done several alias requests so far, not all went as smooth as we > > > > wanted. The method we used is the same as you mention, the alias > > > > request was done with this form (just in case you used something > > > > else): > >http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cEhGZVVmVUNQVmI... > > > > . Several requests we did failed, one because "http:" wasn't in front > > > > of the url. Some other requests failed for reasons unknown to us, but > > > > we all submitted them again and all succeeded in the end. Some were > > > > submitted again with the same urls and cosumer secret, we thought we > > > > used before and were accepted the second time (possibly there was a > > > > type-o in the url/secret the first time, the only reason I can think > > > > of). > > > > > With our request we didn't verify the new gadgets, so there was no > > > > consumer secret of those involved, only the old url, the new url and > > > > the consumer secret of the old gadget. In our experience we received a > > > > message of approval/disapproval in about a week, with the notice that > > > > current users would be transferred in a week or so (in actuality that > > > > took a little longer if I remember correctly). > > > > > Good luck! > > > > > On Apr 19, 10:11 pm, DigitalLeo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I need to do some alias requests for my gadgets, since I'm changing > > > > > the domain. > > > > > > My first attempt to move one gadget failed. This is what I did: > > > > > > 1. Register and verify the gadget > > > > > 2. Make alias request with old url, consumer secret of old url, and > > > > > new url. > > > > > > The gadget in the new url doesn't contain though the token that I had > > > > > on the first gadget which was needed to verify it. Nor have I added > > in > > > > > any of the gadgets the consumer key or consumer secret. > > > > > > I would need help urgently, since my domain is expiring very soon. > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > . > > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > . > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iGoogle Developer Forum" 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. 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