Publishing to the Marketplace App

For Platform Private Cloud installations that have been upgraded from a prior version, by default the Marketplace will be enabled as the way to publish and distribute applications. However, master administrators can enable Marketplace and provide it to their customer tenants as an alternative. Infinite Blue recommends switching to Marketplace because it provides a better user experience.

Publishing an application to the Marketplace application makes it freely available for installation in any tenant in the same Private Cloud instance. By default, a master administrator must approve published applications before they appear in the Marketplace web page. Private Cloud administrators can change this behavior as needed by modifying the Published Application object in the master.

To summarize, all applications that are published or unpublished reside in theMarketplace application. Whereas, when a master approves all the published applications, the applications becomes available in the Marketplace web page.

If you continue development of an application that has already been published, you can publish updates to that application. Each updated application will have a higher version number than the last and customers who installed previous versions will be able to upgrade to the latest version. Private Cloud Master system administrators can also push updates of an application to all tenants that have installed the applications. See Pushing application updates to other tenants.

Publishing an application to the Marketplace is a two-step process:

  1. A tenant administrator publishes the application

    Tenant administrators use the Publish option on an application’s view page to publish their application. This submits the application for publishing approval to the administrators of the master tenant.

  2. A master administrator approves the submitted application for publication on the Marketplace:
    • Infinite Blue approves applications for the Hosted Marketplace
    • Platform Private Cloud applications are published to the Marketplace after an administrator of the master tenant approves them using the Marketplace application (see Approving a published application in the Marketplace)

  1. From the application switcher:
    To navigate to the settings for the current application, click App Settings.
    To navigate to settings for a different application, hover the mouse pointer over the application and click the settings icon.
  2. Click Publish or Publish Updates. The button name depends on whether the application has been published previously.
    The Publish Application dialog appears.
  3. Specify the following:
    Note: If this application is approved on the Marketplace, the information you provide here will be displayed on the Marketplace's application page.
    • Version: The version number of the application. Enter an integer value. For example, if you publish an update to version 1, use 2.
    • Application Name: The name of the application
    • Tags: The terms assigned to this application. Publishers can use these terms to identify the application from a group. This is an optional field.
    • Category: One of the available categories (on the Marketplace) for this application
    • Application Description: Description of the application. This is an optional field
    • Application Logo: A custom logo image. The image dimensions are 180x180. The image size must be less than 512KB.
    • Lock Status: The status of the application's component locking mechanism. Unlocked is the default status

      If you select Partially Locked, you must specify which application components to lock by selecting the relevant check boxes. Expand the tree to specify locking at a fine-grained level. For more information, see Locking applications.

    • Supported Languages: The languages in which this application can be used. This is an optional field.

    • Requires Platform: The Platform versions required to use this application

    • Product Type: The type of application, App or App Template

    • Screenshots: The application's screenshots. Typically, you use these screenshots to help Marketplace users evaluate the application interface and features. A minimum of two screenshots are required to publish an application.

    • Publisher: The publisher-related information. This provides Marketplace users information about the publisher's headquarters, phone number, email ID, and website information.

    • Publisher Description: A short description about the publisher of the application. This is an optional field.

    • Advanced Options: The fields in this section are optional. They specify:

      • If the application is a Featured or a Paid application on the Marketplace
      • Links to Product Overview, Resources, Learn More, and Price Options page. Typically, you use these links to direct Marketplace users to your website's pages.
      • An application Banner

  4. Click Submit.
    If you submitted to the Platform hosted Marketplace application, you will receive notification on the status of your application.
Additionally, using the Marketplace application, the master administrators can directly publish an application using its XML file. To do this, they must use the New Published Application option on the Published Apps menu.