Apps is a powerful feature in Spider Impact that allows administrators to build curated, branded experiences for specific tasks. Apps enable streamlined workflows and customized interfaces by consolidating data collection, reporting, and operational tools into a single, integrated environment.

Key Benefits of Apps:

• Task-Specific Experiences: Create tailored applications for different departments or use cases, such as sales tracking, customer service, or project management.
• Centralized Data and User Management: Apps leverage Spider Impact's existing permissions architecture, ensuring secure and seamless data access.
• Standalone Access: Apps can be accessed independently of the main Impact UI, allowing users to interact with them via a dedicated URL.

Viewing and Accessing Apps

Apps provide a standalone experience separate from traditional Impact sections. When you navigate to an App's view tab, you'll see a single "Open App" button that launches the App in a new browser tab. Each App has its own dedicated URL, allowing you to create browser bookmarks for direct access.

Apps require you to log in, and they share a security model with Spider Impact. You can only see data in Apps that you can already see in Impact.

After logging in, you'll encounter a customized interface designed specifically for its purpose. Apps are built from existing Impact screens like Forms, Dashboards, and Reports. For example, this App has four sections. This "All Customers" section is a multi-page form that starts with a list of all customers.

When you click the "Edit Customer" link for a customer, you're taken to the customer details page where you can see a history of sales for that customer and edit the customer's contact information.

In this example, the "Reports" section allows you to choose between several dashboards, each displaying various sales data visualizations.

Creating and Managing Apps

Like every section in Spider Impact, Apps reside in organizations and follow the standard Spider Impact permission model. This means you can access every app in your viewable organizations. The "Modify Apps" permission allows administrators to configure and manage Apps in their viewable organizations.

The Edit tab within the Apps section allows administrators to manage App settings. Here, the app itself is selected, and you can set the app's name, URL, and description.

Like editing Form Pages, when you edit an App, all its sections appear underneath it. Here we've selected the "All Customers" section and we can see that this App Section shows a single Form.

When you select the "Reports" section, you can see that it's showing every dashboard from an organization.

Because Apps use Spider Impact's existing permissions, if a user can't see a page inside of Spider Impact and that page is being used for an App's section, that section will be hidden for them inside of the App. This allows you to create apps with sections that only appear for some users.