Fastlane - How to add user to Testflight with Group?

Question

Am on FastLane , trying to setup iOS builds to Testglight - Am on the latest version - 2.88.0.

When i try to add an internal tester to iTunesConnect

fastlane pilot add email@invite.com

I get an error

ERROR: You must provide 1 or more groups (with the :groups option)

This is my part of the lane - the Pilot command

# upload to Testflight
pilot(skip_waiting_for_build_processing: true,
    email:"user@email.com",
    distribute_external: false)

Where do i provide these groups? If i use the -g option, it says the groups don't exist?

Do i need to manually go to iTunesConnect and create a group? That defeats the purpose of automating stuff.

Any pointers would be appreciated

Answer 1

Creating a group is usually just a "one-time" thing so its easiest to create your one or two groups in iTunesConnect directly and then reference those group names in pilot .

If you want to do it all programmatically though, you could use spaceship directly create a group with something like...

group = Spaceship::TestFlight::Group.create!(app_id: 'app-id', group_name: 'Group 1')

You may have to check if the group exists first so it doesn't error out. You could also create a separate lane for creating groups for this app so that you don't have to go into iTunesConnect to create any new groups.