macadmins
Don't launch Nudge if apps listed in `acceptableApplicationBundleIDs` are the `frontmostApplication`
This feature as implemented in https://github.com/macadmins/nudge/pull/208 currently only works on subsequent launches and not if Nudge had been dismissed in the past.
It would be ideal if the admin could define a preference so that if Nudge attempted to launch and the apps defined in acceptableApplicationBundleIDs were foremost (On a video call, presenting a Keynote, etc), Nudge would log this and not launch.
In order to not impede the security of your fleet, it would make sense to only apply this when a device has not yet passed the requiredInstallationDate.
I do not know what the correct behaviour should be if a user has exceeded their deferrals, but it is still before the install date. Should Nudge respect the acceptableApplicationBundleIDs dict because it's before the required install date, or launch because they have exceeded their deferral limit?
I don't think I will add a feature for this. As you said, it has the ability to render nudge almost null and the behavior will be tricky. I'll leave it open but unless there is a pull request doing the work and tested, it's unlikely to happen.
One thing I said on Slack but will say here. With Nudge v1.1, it is very likely that the amount of nudge launches/re-activations will significantly decrease per nudge event compared to v1.0.
If say you have a required install for 10/01/2021 and the nudge event starts 09/01/2021, the user could actually defer until 09/28/2021. At this point, the user only has 3 days remaining to install the update and it's highly likely you want as many launches/activations as possible at that point.
I can understand wanting this behavior in v1.0, but I think you should deploy v1.1 and see how things are. I'm pretty confident you will close this ticket once you see less of an occurrence it actually is.