Rate the App: Some questions

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

I’m very close to a final build, and preparing to upload to iTunes Connect.
I’d like to add a last minute ‘rate my app’ option but Im confused about the process.
I found a potentially useful rate code in the forum, which depends upon a property bag class that isn’t shipped with it. No biggie: I know what that would do and can replace that part.

What confuses me is how do you know what ‘magic number’ to include in this rating code , before the app is actually live on the App Store?
I must have missed something simple, but it seems like I don’t have enough info to do this until it actually launches: do you need to follow up with a version 1.1?

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#2

Peach Pellen has a good straight-forward tutorial on it:
http://techority.com/2010/12/07/how-to-add-a-rate-it-button-to-your-iphone-app/
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#3

Yeah, I saw that.
And yet…
The App ID is 9 characters and mine (If I found the right one) is 10
The screen shots showing where to find it don’t look like anything I can find.

And that example, plus a few others derived from it, all reference “Purple Software”
Is this some ‘magic word’ from Apple, or are all the examples copied from one done by a company called Purple Software, and so should have Purple Software replaced by my company name?
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#4

Hey there,

Apple only gives you one app ID that is viewable in iTunes Connect, so if yours happens to be 10 then I guess it’s 10 - just use the ID you’re given.

I don’t know where the “Purple Software” thing comes from but no, it’s not something you need to change and isn’t a company name.

If you copy and paste from the tutorial and simply put in your app ID it will work.

(To test you could use an App ID of an existing app, just to test. One of mine shows up on that tutorial page.)

Peach :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 20772 reply_id: 81827[/import]