Is the MYOB Shared Sandbox online file "private"?

[kjm]

The shared sandbox file which I have been given access to develop against. Is it visible only to me or is it a public myob file all dev have access to?

Naturally I do not want towrite any sensitive data or use our prod/testing data against it if it is

Also does it get reset or is the data in there permanently ?

[kjm]

noone? am I really the only person that is wondering this?

[Steven_M]

Hi @kjm 

Sandbox files provided to developers for testing purposes are shared files across a number of developers and not exclusively for one individual developer.

[kjm]

ok thanks for that @Steven_M 

is there any way I can setup a test file so I can test my software against it instead of ttesting against a production file?

I would like a "private" one as the so I dont have to create fake data..I dont want to have to obfuscate data and also our setup is fairly complex I dont want to have other devs come in and change it 

[kjm]

I have a file named after my email biut I think that is an essentials filew and when I try and connect my app against that I get a 401...would it be possible to use this file? does it need to be given permissions to be used or something?

[Drewh]

It would be really beneficial to have private sandboxes for developers. We can use dummy data for testing but it's far easier to catch issues during development when you use real data, simply due to the diversity of it. Obviously we can't do this if other developers are able to see our real data.

[kjm]

@Drewh 
yes I agree. Not having a private environment means we cannot test withour existing dataset. This is real live data of real people. We cant have that in a shared environment for others to see and read. 

This makes the sandbox really only good for testing the most simplistic scenarios not more complex scenarios based on data already existing

Anyway, I think the solution I am going to have to use is to keep a networked myob file just for this purpose so that testing our software will write to a networked myob file that has been restored from a online backup

Cant imagine there ar eany technical chalanges to providing a private myob file  (it could even be deleted automatically if no activity detected in 30 days)

Even allowing us to upload a copy of another file to use for testing and then delete it after a peiod of time would be hugely useful. I can only imagine it is done to save resources/money. I can understand this but I think it is pretty poor