Where is the Beta Apps section of the developer dashboard.

At the top of the screen after uploading a beta App, is the following text in a yellow attention box:

" You can manage and download your beta app in the "Beta Apps" section of the developer dashboard."

Where is that exactly?  There is no link inside the yellow box to take you there.

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  • It's the regular dahboard. It includes all your apps, both production and beta.

  • By default, beta apps are sorted at the bottom of the Uploaded Apps tab.

    I do think the message is misleading (or downright incorrect). Maybe when it was written, there actually were plans to have a separate Beta Apps section.

    This kind of thing is pretty normal for Garmin (different sections of the same site / set of documentation contradicting each other, using different terminology for the same idea, etc.)

    For example, the SDK Manager - and most places in Connect IQ, like the compiler and the CIQ store - refers to various models (for the purpose of CIQ) as "devices": e.g. fr955, fenix7s, enduro3, etc. The device config files themselves are in a folder called Devices/ and have several references to the word "device" within.

    But in manifest.xml and the Monkey C extension, the same concept is referred to as "products".

  • And then we didn't talk about partNumbers :)

  • Oh yeah, speaking of "part numbers", there's the case of using the same name for different concepts. (There's the part number on the box, and there's a different part number used for CIQ and other things.)

    Like from the user's POV, the Connect IQ app store offers several different types of apps, including watchfaces, data fields, and..."apps".

    The latter usage of "apps" obviously refers to "device apps" or "watch apps" but normal users don't use that terminology, and even if they did, they would still have to explain what it means to everyone else. I think the usual explanation is that a "watch app"/"device app"/"app type of 'app'/A" means an "app app" as opposed to the other app types, like watch faces and data fields, which aren't "apps" in the traditional sense.

    It's a lot of fun watching non-devs talk about CIQ "apps" as a result of this (and other naming issues).

  • This kind of thing is pretty normal for Garmin

    That is an understatement.

    I will leave it there.