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Creating apps

To learn how to create a low-code app, you can follow the steps below or watch this short video:

Watch first: Creating your first dashboard

In this video, the following topics are covered:

Level What you will learn More information
Basic Create a new low-code app with a custom name, icon, and color. Customizing the icon and color of an app
Basic Add multiple pages with their own names and icons. Configuring an app page
Basic Add and configure several components (table, gauge, and line & area chart) Configuring components
Advanced Create a filtered query and use it in a table component. Creating a GQI query
Advanced Create a panel and define component actions so it opens when an item in a table is double-clicked. Configuring an app panel
Configuring app events
Advanced Use component data to link components across pages, so that selecting or double-clicking an item in the table determines which data is shown in other components. Component data
Tip

If you are looking for a very beginner-friendly, step-by-step introduction that focuses purely on creating and publishing your first app, see Tutorial: Creating and publishing an app.

Prerequisites

To view, add, edit, delete, or publish low-code applications, you need to have the following user permissions:

Creating a new low-code app

  1. Go to the DataMiner landing page.

  2. To add a new app:

    • From DataMiner 10.4.0 [CU18]/10.5.0 [CU6]/10.5.9 onwards:

      • If no apps exist yet, click Create your first app.

      • Otherwise, select the tab where you want the app to appear, and click Create app. To add the app without assigning it to a specific section, open the All apps tab or the Other apps tab before creating the app.

    • Prior to DataMiner 10.4.0 [CU18]/10.5.0 [CU6]/10.5.9:

      • If no apps exist yet, click Create a new app.

      • Otherwise, hover the mouse pointer over the Other apps section and click the "+" button next to Other apps.

    Note

    To organize your app in a newly created section, see Organizing the apps on the landing page in sections.

  3. Specify the name of your new app in the header bar, instead of the default name "New application".

    Note that from DataMiner 10.4.0 [CU13]/10.5.0 [CU1]/10.5.4 onwards, app names are limited to 150 characters.

  4. To customize the color and icon for the app, see Customizing the icon and color of an app.

  5. Add and configure the necessary pages, panels, and events for the app.

    Tip

    To configure the settings for pages and panels in a low-code app, see Changing app settings.

  6. To customize who can access or edit the application, see Configuring app security.

  7. When your app is ready, click the Publish icon in the header bar to save your changes and publish it.

Important

Once an app has been published, it is not possible to revert it to a draft.

Note

When you close a draft app you have been working on, it is saved automatically. As such, if you do not want to publish your app immediately, you can just close it to save it as a draft. However, draft apps are not shown by default on the landing page. To view them, enable the Show drafts toggle next to the search bar. Prior to DataMiner 10.4.0 [CU21]/10.5.0 [CU9]/10.5.12,click the cogwheel button and activate Show draft applications.

Duplicating an existing low-code app

From DataMiner 10.3.0 [CU10]/10.4.1 onwards, it is possible to duplicate an existing low-code app. You can do so from the DataMiner landing page or from the page of the app itself.

Duplicating an app from the DataMiner landing page

  1. Go to the DataMiner landing page.

  2. Click the ellipsis ("...") button next to the app you want to duplicate and select Duplicate.

    Note

    Prior to DataMiner 10.4.0 [CU18]/10.5.0 [CU6]/10.5.9, the ellipsis button only appears when you hover over the app icon.

The most recently published app version will now be duplicated. If the app has not yet been published, its draft version will be duplicated instead.

The newly created duplicate will be assigned a unique name and will automatically be opened in a new browser tab. On the root page, this landing app will be added to the list if the Show drafts or Show draft applications option (depending on your DataMiner version) is enabled.

Duplicating an app from the app page itself

  1. Open the version you want to duplicate:

    • To duplicate the most recently published version of the app, open the app.

    • To duplicate the current draft version of an app, open the app and go to edit mode.

    • To duplicate a different version:

      1. In the top-right corner, click the ellipsis button ("...") and select Versions.

      2. Select the desired version.

      Note

      You can only duplicate an older version of an app if you have permission to edit the app in question.

  2. In the top-right corner, click the ellipsis button ("..."), and select Duplicate app.

    The low-code app will be copied and the newly created app will automatically be opened in a new browser tab.

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