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An  application enables you to conveniently group forms, flows, schemas and documents together and work with them as a coherent unit. Applications are portable.  You  You can download applications and then upload them to other users or other  servers.

Warning

We recommend that tenant admin users not create or edit applications. These users should restrict themselves to administrative tasks

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The Applications page lists the Applications that you have created. On this page, you can

  • Click to create a new application
  • Click to link to an application
  • Click Image Removed Click Image Added to upload an application file
  • Click to delete an existing applicationClick Image Removed
  • Click Image Added to edit an application
  • Click to edit the application properties
  • Click to download an existing application
  • Click to share an application.

Also when you hover over any application a tool tip will display the application's description.

Warning

Deleting an application also deletes all form submissions. See replacing deleting forms and applications Deleting an Application below.

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Create a new application by clicking on the icon. Your new application is given a randomly generated name. You can edit the name via the application's properties page inside the application.

Link to an Application

Click Image Removed to link this application to another application. Enter You can share an application with other users via the Image Added Link icon. For example, let's say the manager in a company training department wants to make training forms available to the other trainers to use but not modify. The training manager provides the link to the application. See Sharing an Application below. The other trainers click on the Image Added Link icon and enter the share URL of the application you want to link to, manager's application and then click Finish. You'll The other trainers will be able to use forms and flows from the linked application, but you cannot modify them or create new ones. If the training manager, adds/deletes forms/flows or makes any updates to the forms/flows in the original application, the changes will be reflected in the linked applications used by the other trainers.

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If the application to which you have linked, is deleted you will see the error "The application links to a nonexistent application. The original application may have been deleted. You should delete the linked application.". If the application to which you have linked is renamed you will not notice this name change in the linked application.

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Click the  icon at the top of the Applications page. Choose a valid zip file -  it must be a zip file that was downloaded earlier using the application download feature. The application is uploaded and immediately appears in your list of applications. If you are trying to replace an existing application with an updated version, click the Replace checkbox, then click Upload. The updated application appears at the bottom of the application list replacing the previous version.

Note

When replacing an application, submissions from older application versions are saved.

Applications can also be copied by checking the Copy checkbox.  The The copied application appears in the list with the same name as the original but a different id, allowing applications to be uploaded multipe multiple times. The newly copied application will be independent from the original; any changes you make to the copy won’t affect the original and vice versa.

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Since the newly copied application will be your most recently created applicatiion, it will appear at the bottom of the list.

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uploaded as a copy, all of the forms, images, locales, schemas

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and themes

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which were downloaded in the Application zipfile (_app.zip) will be present in the copy.

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  1. For an uploaded app that is NOT a replace nor a copy, the contained forms/flows are set to DEVELOPMENT and not deployed.
  2. For an uploaded app that is a COPY, the deploy state of the contained forms/flows are set to DEVELOPMENT.
  3. For an uploaded app that is a REPLACE, the deploy state of the contained forms/flows is transferred forward from the corresponding form/flow in the app being replaced.

Any form/flow in the replacement app not found in the replaced app is set to DEVELOPMENT. Any form/flow in the original app not found in the new replacement app will not be included in the replacement application. The production formflow count is updated accordingly.

Deleting an Application

Click the icon next to an application's name to delete it. Confirm your choice in the dialog that pops up and the application will be immediately removed. This is an irreversible process so make sure you do not need the application before you delete it. You can always download the application and save it before you delete it.

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Click the  icon next to an application's name to download it. This will download a zip file to your local disk. The file will contain the forms, images, locales, schemas , themes and ACLs that make up and  themes included in the application. Save the file and you can upload it back to a  server at a later time.

Note

Application downloads will not include themes outside of the application even though there are forms in the application that reference them. See Themes for more information.

Access control configuration information is not saved in the downloaded application zip file. Thus when you upload this application you will need to reconfigure access controls.

Sharing an Application

Click to share this an application with another applicationuser. When you click the icon, a wizard appears that contains this application's URL.

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Copy the URL and then paste it into the Link wizard of for the application user you want to share this one with or into a Link control in a formthe application with. This will create a new application linked to the original one.