What type of issue is this?
Question
What SharePoint development model, framework, SDK or API is this about?
💥 SharePoint Framework
Target SharePoint environment
SharePoint Online
What browser(s) / client(s) have you tested
Additional environment details
- SharePoint Online tenant App Catalog
- Marketplace-distributed SPFx solution
- SPFx: 1.22.2
- Node.js: v22.14.0
- Browser: not applicable
This is platform lifecycle behavior and is not specific to these version numbers.
Issue description
Problem
We regularly release updates to our SPFx solutions through Microsoft Marketplace. Each time, we have to contact our customers and ask a SharePoint administrator in every tenant to install the update manually.
The update flow is hard to find. The administrator has to open the tenant App Catalog, switch to the classic experience, select the app, open the Files tab, and choose Upgrade Store App.
Many customers do not complete this process. They stay on older versions while other customers update. Over time, we end up supporting several versions of the same solution in production. This is difficult to track and maintain, and customers miss fixes that are already available.
Possible solution
Give SharePoint administrators an option to keep Marketplace SPFx solutions up to date automatically.
The exact implementation is less important than the outcome: publishers should not have to contact every customer after every release, and customers should not have to repeat a hidden manual process to receive routine updates.
Related issue
#10758 covers the missing update action in the modern App Catalog and the current classic-experience workaround.
What type of issue is this?
Question
What SharePoint development model, framework, SDK or API is this about?
💥 SharePoint Framework
Target SharePoint environment
SharePoint Online
What browser(s) / client(s) have you tested
Additional environment details
This is platform lifecycle behavior and is not specific to these version numbers.
Issue description
Problem
We regularly release updates to our SPFx solutions through Microsoft Marketplace. Each time, we have to contact our customers and ask a SharePoint administrator in every tenant to install the update manually.
The update flow is hard to find. The administrator has to open the tenant App Catalog, switch to the classic experience, select the app, open the Files tab, and choose Upgrade Store App.
Many customers do not complete this process. They stay on older versions while other customers update. Over time, we end up supporting several versions of the same solution in production. This is difficult to track and maintain, and customers miss fixes that are already available.
Possible solution
Give SharePoint administrators an option to keep Marketplace SPFx solutions up to date automatically.
The exact implementation is less important than the outcome: publishers should not have to contact every customer after every release, and customers should not have to repeat a hidden manual process to receive routine updates.
Related issue
#10758 covers the missing update action in the modern App Catalog and the current classic-experience workaround.