Editing App (post purchase)
Your Customization Journey: From Marketplace Purchase to Live App
This guide walks you through the typical lifecycle of customizing an app purchased from the marketplace. It demonstrates how quickly you can turn a ready-made template into a powerful, tailor-made tool by modifying its underlying data, automating its logic, and perfecting its user interface.
Step 1: Purchasing and Deploying Your Foundation
The journey begins with selecting a starter template that matches your business needs.
Browse the Marketplace: Navigate through the Global Marketplace and find the app that best fits your initial requirements.
Confirm the Purchase: Review the app details, confirm the purchase, and complete the transaction.
Instant Deployment: The App Builder automatically copies the selected app’s code, data model, and pre-built screens into your workspace. This instantly creates a fully functional, editable copy of the application under your workspace, ready for the next phase.
Step 2: Defining the Data (Tables and Fields)
The first step in customization is ensuring the app’s data structure aligns perfectly with your operations. This is where you work with the Tables.
Db Builder: Enter the editing environment for your newly acquired app.
Review Existing Tables: You notice a pre-built tables. To better organize your data, you can decide to add a new field, edit fields. You may need to rename the tables in a logical and friendly manner.
Modify and Extend: Once the change occurred on the Db Builder, you need to sync the change with the Data Queries delivered with the app package. Locate the UI Builder and select the query where the table is used within. Alter the table name using the same value that you provided above.
Step 3: Implementing the Logic (Workflows and Automation)
With your data structured correctly, you now give the app intelligence by modifying its Workflows (or Business Logic/Automation).
Step 4: Perfecting the Interface (UI/Design)
Finally, you personalize the user experience, so the app looks and feels like it belongs to your brand. This is handled in the UI Builder.
Access the Screen: Open the main screen where users view app's interface.
Customize the Layout: Use the drag-and-drop editor to rearrange elements.
Apply Branding: Change the app's color scheme to match your corporate brand, update the navigation bar logo, and ensure the app is fully responsive across mobile and desktop views.
Step 5: Publishing and Iteration
Once you are satisfied with the customizations, you can instantly Publish the updated version to your users. The marketplace template served as a robust, fully-functioning starting point, but the final, deployed app is entirely your own customized solution.
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