To set up Apps and enable purchases from the Jive Apps Market, you need to enable
Apps, check that your domain security is adequate, and set up any services that need to
connect to Jive in order to make enterprise Apps work. You can use your Admin rights to
limit which Apps are available to your users.
By default, Apps are enabled when you set up Jive, and your users will be able to
install any available Apps they want from the Jive Apps Market. You can choose to
disable Apps on install or at
any time afterward. The following steps provide an overview of the tasks used to set
up Apps. Refer to the Help for each Admin page for more help with the settings used
during setup.
Note: Apps depend on a successful connection to the Jive-hosted Jive Apps Market that's
established during installation. You can find prerequisites and best practices
for connecting
here.
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Plan your domain security model for Apps. The most secure implementation is to
host every App on a unique subdomain: if you use this implementation you'll have
to configure your domains accordingly. For more information, see Creating Secure Subdomains for Apps.
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Install Jive.
Make sure that your web app nodes can connect to the Apps Market: the List of Required Ports
and Domains includes the information you need to set up your
environment correctly. If you connect to the Internet using a proxy server, you
should also read about how
to set up Jive
correctly with a proxy server.
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Make sure you have enabled the legacy REST services under and the Core API under .
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In the Admin Console, click the Add-ons tab and select App Settings to Apps Dashboard to ensure Apps is enabled, the initial connection to
the Apps Market was successful, and everything is running successfully.
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Click the Domain Security link and choose the security model you decided on.
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Check out the Apps Market for your site while you're logged in as an
administrator. By default, Apps are enabled and users can install any available
Apps from the Jive Apps
Market. As an admin, you can decide to disable any Apps that you don't want
your community members to use. You may also see some Apps that are Unavailable.
When you hover on the Unavailable button, you'll
sometimes see a link to information about a required connection to a third-party
service. If you want to enable one of these Apps, you can use the information
provided by the App developer to set up a connection to the service. See Configuring App Services for more information.
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After you complete initial setup, you will do most of your administration in the Apps Market interface. You can continue to use the Apps Dashboard to monitor and troubleshoot any problems with your connection to Apps. You can use the App Statistics page to monitor Apps adoption.