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Updating a Certified-but-not-yet-Published Alexa skill


My first Alexa skill is almost ready to go public, but I seem to have gotten myself a bit tangled... I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

I asked Amazon to Certify But Not Publish this skill, to check that I wasn't missing anything obvious. They did so. Great, but...

Since then, I've uploaded some slightly modified models. Since I'm ready to go, I went to Validation and punched Certify again. It told me "You cannot submit this skill for review because it has a ‘Certified’ version. Publish or withdraw the previously ‘Certified’ version to submit this skill for review."

Submission shows a warning that the most recent validation failed (for the above reason).

OK, I understand. But I'm not sure how to do either of those.

When I look at Version History, I do see the previously Certified skill version. However, I can't see how to either publish or withdraw it!

A quick websearch hasn't found anything which clarifies this for me. I MUST be missing something obvious -- these operations are on a different page, or something like that. Could someone point me to where I can perform them?

(Yes, I looked at https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/devconsole/test-and-submit-your-skill.html. That doesn't seem to address my situation of having a certified version, having a new version which couldn't yet be certified, and not being sure how to go either forward or backward.)


Solution

    1. In the list of the skill, make sure you select the dev or in review version and go inside it
    2. Go into the certification tab and in the submission menu
    3. Click on withdraw from review

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    If you don't see that, contact the support