Community Marketplace

About the Community Marketplace

The community marketplace is a catalog of application packages.

• Users browse the available packages by clicking [Go to Marketplace] in the Applications page.
• Users can rate application packages (giving them from one to five stars), and they can add review comments.
• Developers provide information for a marketplace listing after "publishing" the package to create the zip archive.
• Service Providers approve submitted packages using Manage Catalog functionality.

Tip: Service Providers will generally want to enable Tenant Subdomains. Among other reasons, it allows the application catalog to be given a URL that can be viewed externally. Learn more: Service Configuration#Community Site Configuration

Working with the Community Marketplace

Configuring the Marketplace

By default, the marketplace is disabled. To enable the marketplace:

1. If it is not already enabled, enable the Community Tenant.
2. Ideally, enable Tenant Subdomains. (Recommended when activating the Community Marketplace.)
3. Designate a domain that can be used to access the catalog.

   Learn more: Service Configuration#Community Site Configuration

Managing Catalog Contents

Service Providers can approve or reject packages that have been submitted for inclusion in the catalog, specify categories, and determine the order in which packages appear.

To manage application packages and categories:

Settings > Service Provider Settings > Manage Catalog

Configure Catalog options.

Catalog

View the current Catalog

Approve Packages

Review Packages pending approval

User can either:

• [Approve] package for publication to the catalog
• [Reject] package, and deny publication to the catalog

In either case, an email is sent to the submitter, to tell them the outcome.

Learn more: Package Approval or Rejection

Select Packages

Choose the packages to display in the Catalog

User can either:

• Move a package into the Visible column to display the package in the catalog
• Move a package into the Hidden column to remove the package from the catalog
• Set the order of the list of Packages in the catalog

Considerations

• If an ISV moves a package from the Visible column to the Hidden column, it is removed from all the Tenant and MSP Catalog pages, and is no longer available for installation.
• If an ISV moves a package from the Hidden column to the Visible column in Manage Catalog, the package will be displayed in the Tenant and MSP Catalog pages.
• If an MSP removes a package from the MSP Catalog, it is removed from that MSP Catalog page only, and is no longer available to the Tenants of that MSP.