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    Install custom Showpad Apps

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    You can create custom sales apps and integrations tailored to your company, industry, and market, all while keeping Showpad's great sharing and tracking capabilities. Showpad's enterprise-grade deployment and permission settings allow you to control who has access to each sales application, and content analytics help you see what content works and what doesn't. To create these custom Showpad Apps for your sales reps, your developer or agency can check out our Showpad Apps documentation on our Developer Portal.

    As an administrator, you can install a custom app and convert it to a Showpad Experience. Once that’s done, you can edit, update, assign access, and find your existing Experiences in the Admin App. No further coding is required to link, share, and edit the assets stored in Showpad.

    These applications can be mobile-friendly calculators, configurators, personalized content navigations, or interactive presentations. The possibilities are endless. Showpad Apps are compatible with Showpad mobile apps (iOS, Android), Windows Desktop App, and with Showpad's Web App.

    See how it looks

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    Key features

    • Enjoy limitless personalization with all the power of Showpad
    • Instant distribution with Showpad’s deployment and permissions
    • Preview your Showpad App and see how it looks on desktops and mobile devices
    • Update your Showpad App and include Release Notes to highlight the changes
    • Automated updates in the Experience App Builder without further coding

    Note: If you're looking for a developer, you can learn more about Showpad's certified partners here.

    You need this to succeed

    Plan: eOS Expert, eOS Advanced, eOS Professional
    Legacy plan: Showpad Content Plus
    Permissions: Administrator, Promoted Member
    Prerequisites: 
    • Showpad Apps v1 & v2 - A custom Showpad App created by a developer or an agency
    • Showpad Apps v2 - Your Showpad Partner Code (Available in the Install App dialog in the Showpad Apps section of the Settings menu on Showpad's Admin App)

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    Showpad Apps v1

    See how it's done for Showpad Apps v1

    Showpad Apps v1 rely on legacy tooling to build custom Experiences within Showpad. While functional, these apps offer limited flexibility, with fewer tools and manual deployment processes.

    The quick way

    1. Create a new Experience
    2. Upload your Showpad App v1
    3. Edit the Experience and add content
    4. Update the Experience with a new app version
    5. Remove an Experience

    Do this step by step

    Create an Experience from Showpad App v1

    Note: This process is for Showpad Apps v1 apps. A Showpad Apps v2 app with an Experience extension automatically adds a new type of Experience to select when creating a new Experience.

    1. Navigate to Libraries
    2. If your organization uses multiple Divisions, select the desired one from the top-left dropdown menu.
    3. Select Experiences in the Distribution section of the left side menu.
    4. Click New Experience.
    5. Enter an Experience name and select Your Experience App from the Experience type list.
    6. Click Create.

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    Upload and Publish Your App

    After creating a new Experience, the Experience App Builder opens, and you can upload your Experience. 

    1. Select the Edit tab.
    2. Click the Upload Experience App button.
    3. In the Upload Experience pop-up, you can:
      • Drag and drop your app
      • Click the Select content button to browse your device
      • (optional) Enable the configuration settings in the app to override any admin configuration settings by checking the Force config override from Experience App source checkbox
    4. Click Upload.
    5. Edit the content of your Experience, if necessary.
    6. Click Publish Experience.

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    Modify Your Experience

    Note: If the Force config override from Experience App source option was selected during the app upload, you can not modify the Experience.

    1. Navigate to Libraries.
    2. If your organization uses multiple Divisions, select the desired Division from the top left dropdown menu.
    3. In the Experiences library, select an Experience to edit.
    4. Click Open Experience Builder at the top of the details panel.
    5. By default, the Experience Apps Builder opens on the Preview tab. Click the Edit tab to modify your app.
    6. The Edit tab consists of two panels:
      Main panel This large central panel is where you edit your Experience. Initially, no data nodes are selected. Use the options in the left sidebar to display and select nodes for editing.

      Left sidebar

      This panel contains two sections:

      Toolbar: This part of the sidebar includes:

      • Search: Find specific content or labels. Searching automatically enables Bulk Edit mode.
      • Expand All: Expand all nodes.
      • Collapse All: Collapse all nodes.
      • Bulk Edit mode: Enable this mode to display and edit all nodes in the main panel.

      Hierarchy panel: Displays the structure of your Experience, allowing you to quickly navigate to specific areas. Clicking an item scrolls the main panel to that location.

    7. When done, click Publish Experience to save and apply your changes.
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    Update an Experience to the latest version of an App

    1. Navigate to Libraries.
    2. If your organization uses multiple Divisions, select the desired one from the top-left dropdown menu.
    3. In the Experiences library, select an Experience to edit.
    4. Click Open Experience Builder at the top of the detail panel.
    5. Click Edit.
    6. You can upload a new version by clicking Upload New Version.
    7. Click the Publish Experience button to distribute the updated Experience to all assigned users.

    Note: If you don’t want to update your Experience with the latest app version, click Exit without saving.

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    Delete an Experience

    To permanently remove an Experience:

    1. Navigate to Libraries.
    2. If your organization uses multiple Divisions, select the desired one from the top-left dropdown menu.
    3. In the Experiences library, select an Experience to open its details pane.
    4. Click the trash icon to permanently delete the Experience.

    See how it's done for Showpad Apps v2

    Showpad Apps v2 take advantage of the Showpad eOS™ to create unique applications perfectly tailored to meet your specific needs and brand. They use a modular architecture with various extensions and improved tools to facilitate development, testing, and deployment processes.

    The quick way

    Install Showpad App

    1. Developers create and assign Showpad App(s) to your organization
    2. Select and install a Showpad App
    3. Update the app when a new version is available (manually or automatically)
    4. Remove an installed app

    Create an Experience

    1. Create a new Experience
    2. Edit the Experience and add content
    3. Update the Experience with a new app version

    Do this step by step

    Install Showpad App v2

    When a version of a Showpad App v2 has been assigned to your Showpad organization, you can install it from the Admin App:

    1. Click the gear icon to open Settings.
    2. In the Showpad Apps section, select Manage Apps.
    3. Click Install App.
    4. Select an app to install. As an option, ensure the checkbox is selected for Automatically install new version when available. 
    5. Click Install.
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    Install a new version of an App

    When a new version of an app that has been assigned to your Showpad organization is available, you can install it manually or automatically.

    Manual update

    1. In the Admin App, click on the gear icon to open Settings.
    2. Select Manage Apps in the Showpad Apps section. A list of your installed apps is displayed, and any apps with a newer version available will have a notification icon.
    3. Click the three dot menu and select Install latest version.
    4. In the dialog window, click Install.
    5. Confirm the installation by clicking Install.

    Note: You can also update your app by selecting View details and clicking the Install latest version button.

    Automatic update

    1. In the Admin App, click the gear icon to open Settings.
    2. Select Manage Apps in the Showpad Apps section. A list of your installed apps is displayed, and any apps with a newer version available will have a notification icon.
    3. Click the three dot menu and select View details.
    4. Select the Automatic installation checkbox.

    Note: You can also enable automatic updates when you first install the app.

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    Uninstall an App

    1. Click the gear icon to open Settings.
    2. In the Showpad Apps section, select an app to uninstall.
    3. Click the three dot menu and select Uninstall.
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    Create an Experience from Showpad App v2

     

    1. Navigate to Libraries
    2. If your organization uses multiple Divisions, select the desired one from the top-left dropdown menu.
    3. Select Experiences in the Distribution section of the left side menu.
    4. Click New Experience.
    5. Enter an Experience name and select your app from the Experience type list.
    6. Click Create.

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    Edit and Publish Your App

    After creating a new Experience, the Experience Apps Builder opens, and you can edit and publish your Experience.

    1. By default, the Experience Apps Builder opens on the Preview tab. Click the Edit tab to modify your app.
    2. The Edit tab consists of two panels:
      Main panel This large central panel is where you edit your Experience. Initially, no data nodes are selected. Use the options in the left sidebar to display and select nodes for editing.

      Left sidebar

      This panel contains two sections:

      Toolbar: This part of the sidebar includes:

      • Search: Find specific content or labels. Searching automatically enables Bulk Edit mode.
      • Expand All: Expand all nodes.
      • Collapse All: Collapse all nodes.
      • Bulk Edit mode: Enable this mode to display and edit all nodes in the main panel.

      Hierarchy panel: Displays the structure of your Experience, allowing you to quickly navigate to specific areas. Clicking an item scrolls the main panel to that location.

    3. When done, click Publish Experience to save and apply your changes.
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    Update an Experience to the latest version of an App

    When you install a newer version of an app from the Manage Apps section in the Settings menu, your existing Experiences won’t be updated automatically. To apply the latest version, you’ll need to re-publish your Experience:

    1. Navigate to Libraries.
    2. If your organization uses multiple Divisions, select the desired one from the top-left dropdown menu.
    3. In the Experiences library, select an Experience to edit.
    4. Click Open Experience Builder at the top of the details panel. A banner is displayed to inform you that the Experience is not using the latest version of the app.
    5. Click the Publish Experience button to update and distribute the updated Experience to all assigned users.

    Note: If you don’t want to update your Experience with the latest app version, click Exit without saving.

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