Releasing Action: "Error submitting Assistant app" with no error shown

Question

I am trying to publish my first Action for Google Assistent but when trying to submit the app the console tells me "error submitting assistant app" but without any details whatsoever.

Are there any logs or something which would give me more details on what I need to fix before I can submit? I'm lost. Thanks

Answer 1

This problem is being faced by many and it's really off putting to find that Dialogflow shows an error but doesn't specify details of the error which leaves developers scratching their head cluelessly. Hope Dialogflow will make this error more informative and make our lives easy.

Even I faced this error couple of times and here are some suggestions to fix this issue:

1. Make sure all the information is filled up properly under Directory Information section.
   • Long, Short Description
   • Invocations
   • Banner Image, Logo Image
   • Contact Detail
   • Privacy Policy (Terms of Service is optional so can be kept blank)

2. Under Overview menu there are tabs like
   • Quick Setup
   • Build your actions
   • Get Ready for deployment

Make sure all are showing Blue tick mark.

3. Check that you have setup the invocations properly.

4. Test your app in simulator to make sure that the app is working fine without any error.

5. Test your app in the device (you can do it with the device where you are logged in with gmail id associated with dialogflow).

6. This one I found to be most important:

Go to Dialogflow Consoloe and click on Gear button. Then open Environments tab and click on "View All Versions".

Here you will find the list of all the drafts of your application. It might show "Deploying" for the latest draft.

I have found that until there was a status of "Deploying", the app wasn't submitted for review. It showed "Error Submitting Assistant App" message only.

Once it was deployed, I could successfully submit the app. So, you have to wait till Dialogflow deploys your app.

Hope this will help!