Creating the User App

You must follow a given procedure to create a custom app in a Know-how Apps Component.

See Also
Generating Deployment Data
  1. From the Apps and Commands section of the action bar, click Create App in Apps List .
  2. In the Custom App Definition dialog box, select New Custom App or Extend Standard App.
  3. If you selected New Custom App, do the following:
    1. enter the identifier in the Identifier field.
      Note: This is the app identifier. It must be unique.
    2. In the Title field, enter the name of the app.
    3. Select the context from the Context list.
    4. From the Quadrant list, select the quadrant of the compass that will contain your app.
    5. Click Select to associate an icon to your app.
    Note: If you selected New Custom App and a field is not filled in, the app is disabled.
  4. If you selected Extend Standard App, do the following:
    1. Select the app that you want to extend from the list.
  5. Check Disabled App to deactivate the app.
    Note: When this option is selected, the app is not visible and cannot be used by the end-user.
  6. Check Hide default section to create an app containing only the user defined sections and no default one (usually containing the types and process supervision command).
    Note: By default, custom apps are added to one of the sections of the action bar. When this option is checked, the app is not displayed in the action bar.
  7. Click Install for test to quickly deploy the app for test purposes.
    Note: This command installs the entire component.
  8. Click Apply and Toggle exposition. The app is deployed.