This is a guide for how you publish apps to an app portal. This assumes the app portal has already been pre-configured. If you need help setting up the portal from the start, please read this article.
Apps can be published as a standalone app as well as within a portal.
Step 1 – make sure the new app is published
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In your app, go to the Publish section
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Scroll down and make sure it says available on the option to “Make your app available via another Fliplet app (a portal app)”
Step 2 – In the portal settings, select the new app
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Click on the portal component to open the settings
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Scroll down in the settings to where you can see your available apps
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Select the new app from the list
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Note: only published apps will be listed here, so if you can’t see the app as an option, go back to step 1 and make sure the app is published
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Make a note here what the app ID is, as you’ll need it for the next step
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Step 3 – In the user data source, add the new app ID in a new column and give users access to the new app
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In your portal settings click the button to edit data source
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In your data source, create a new column and add the app ID like this APP:1234
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Note that 1234 needs to be the unique App ID you can see from your list of available apps
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Next to each user email mark an x in the new column if a user should have access to the new app
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Save data source and portal component settings
Step 4 – Test it on Fliplet Viewer to make sure you can access & download the new app
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Make sure to give yourself access to the new app so you can make sure you can access it on Fliplet viewer
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You won’t be able to test downloading the app in Fliplet Studio preview since the portal only works on mobile devices
Step 5 – Publish the portal to make changes go live
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To make your new app available on your live app, publish an update from within Fliplet Studio
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When your app has updated, try to download the app and to make sure it’s working