Overview and work list

Two sections in the sidebar answer questions across all projects. The Übersicht (Overview) shows what your customers have and what’s about to expire. Offen (Open) shows what’s still left to do after a build.

The Overview

The Overview answers the question: What’s in which store, and how far has the code moved on since? In the sidebar it says “Stand beim Kunden” (customer version) underneath, or, if something is expiring, how many credentials are affected.

Customer version

There’s a card for each project. It shows one row per configured store:

Column	Content
Store	Google Play, App Store Connect, Microsoft Store or macOS
Version	last uploaded version with build number
Date	when it was uploaded, with “vor … Tagen” (… days ago)
Git	the build’s commit, the Git tag and how many commits have been added since

“Code unverändert” (code unchanged) means nothing has happened on the branch since the upload. “12 Commits seitdem” (12 commits since) means the customer has an older version. The suffix “laut Store” (according to the store) shows that the information comes straight from the store API and not just from the Station’s own history.

Below the store rows is the letzte Build (last build) with preset, version, status and time. If no upload is set up for a project, it says Kein Upload eingerichtet (no upload set up).

Neu abfragen (query again) asks all stores again and re-checks the expiry dates.

Building all variants

Alle in die Warteschlange … (add all to queue) builds one preset per project with a single click, with upload if you like. That way all customers get the same version. How it works is described in Building and the queue.

Expiring credentials

Certificates, profiles and keys expire, and usually you only notice when a build or upload fails. The Station reads the expiry dates in advance. It checks:

Credentials	Where the Station gets the date from
iOS distribution certificate	from the keychain, matching the team in the project.pbxproj
provisioning profile	from the installed profiles for the bundle ID
Android upload key	from the keystore named in android/key.properties
Partner Center key	from the date you enter in the store setup
Developer ID certificate	from the keychain, for projects with direct macOS distribution

Everything is read only. For the Android keystore, the Station uses the password from key.properties and passes it to keytool only via an environment variable.

The traffic light

Each project card shows a coloured dot at the top right for that project’s credentials, with the most urgent case as text. Hover over it to see all entries with their dates.

Colour	Meaning
green	everything valid
yellow	expires in less than 45 days
red	expires in less than 14 days or has expired
grey	date unknown

Everything that’s yellow or red is also listed at the top of the Overview under Zugangsdaten, die bald ablaufen (credentials expiring soon), with how to renew it. For example: “In Xcode unter Settings › Accounts › Manage Certificates ein neues Apple-Distribution-Zertifikat anlegen.” (create a new Apple Distribution certificate in Xcode under Settings › Accounts › Manage Certificates).

If credentials expire in less than 14 days, macOS reports this with a notification once per app launch. After all, you don’t look at the Overview every day.

Offen: the work list

The Offen section collects all successful builds whose checklist hasn’t been fully ticked off, across all projects. Unlike the history, it’s not a record to look things up in, but a list to work through. The counter in the sidebar shows how many builds are open.

Each card shows:

• in the header: project, preset, version, branch and commit
• below that, Als Nächstes: (next) with the next open step
• the upload actions with the drag handle, without switching to another tab
• the checklist for ticking things off directly
• the build’s note, if there is one

Two buttons save clicks:

• „…” erledigt (“…” done) ticks off the next open step, with its name in the button.
• Alles abhaken (tick off everything) completes a build you uploaded outside the Station.

At the top you switch between Neueste zuerst (newest first) and Nach Projekt (by project). Once everything is done, it says Nichts offen (nothing open), with Zum Verlauf (to history) as the way to the completed builds.

If you upload via the Station, it ticks off “Version/Build-Nummer geprüft” (version/build number checked) and the upload step itself. What’s left is what only you can know, such as whether the customer has been informed. More on the checklist in Artifacts and upload.