Marketplace: set up and manage your applications

Marketplace: set up and manage your applications

The Solution provides a bundle of integrated application modules, viewable and accessible by end-users on the Splash Portal.

These applications can be managed by the Tenant through the Control Panel. The number of applications available depends on the license that is assigned to the Tenant. Through the Control Panel, the Tenant can perform the following actions:
  • Enable applications for each WiFi Area
  • Configure and manage the applications
The Tenant can establish which applications are available for each WiFi Area. Moreover, the Tenant can directly manage the application for each WiFi Area, or allow a WiFi Area Owner to self-manage them.
In order to view available applications it is necessary to click the Marketplace button, in the quick access toolbar.

The available applications, listed in the Marketplace section, are:
  • Advanced Statistics
  • Advertising
  • Advertising Pro
  • App Bar
  • Click Analysis
  • Coupons
  • Email Marketing
  • External links
  • Geo Chat
  • Instant Win
  • Internet
  • Nearby
  • Net Coupons
  • Pin-Up
  • Places
  • Presence
  • Proximity
  • Social Analytics
  • Spot News
  • Survey
  • Survey Pro
  • Weather

Filter capabilities

It is possible to filter the list of all available applications through the appropriate search feature.

Results can be filtered in the following ways:

  • My App / Store: by selecting My App, the list of installed applications will be displayed. By selecting Store, it is possible to display the list of available application that are not installed in the system.
  • All / Basic / Premium: by selecting a value it is possible to display all the applications, only Basic or Premium applications. Basic applications are "free" applications, included with the Solution. Premium applications are additional applications that may be required by the Tenant.
  • All / Tenant only / WiFi Area only: by selecting a value it is possible to display all the applications, the application that can be managed at Tenant-level or WiFi Area-level (according to the specific application, or to the options that set by system users).

Description, management and responsibility of the applications

For each available application, a short description is available and can be examined by clicking More info.

By clicking the Settings button for an application, the Tenant is able to set the following access and usage rules:

  • Management: this option indicates the access policies for each application. It is necessary to specify one of the following values:
    • Unified: only the Tenant is able to configure the application, by clicking the button (Manage), and this configuration is applied to all WiFi Areas managed by the Tenant. WiFi Area Owners are not able to perform any action on them. The button (Manage) and the  button (Uninstall) can be viewed only by the Tenant.
    • Differentiated: each WiFi Area can be configured separately, and the settings and the available options depend on the value specified for the Responsibility option (as explained below).
  • Responsibility: this option is available only if the Management is Differentiated. One of the following values must be specified:
    • Tenant: the Tenant can manage and configure independently each application for any WiFi Area, through the options in the Apps tab of the WiFi Area section for the wished WiFi Area. The button (Manage) and the  button (Uninstall) can be viewed neither by the Tenant nor the WiFi Area Owner.
    • WiFi Area: the Tenant and the WiFi Area Owner are both able to configure the applications. The WiFi Area Owner can do this by clicking the Manage button, the Tenant has to open the Apps tab in the WiFi Area section, for the wished WiFi Area. The button (Manage) and the  button (Uninstall) can be viewed only by the the WiFi Area Owner.

By clicking the  button (Manage), if available (depending on the options above mentioned), the Tenant or the WiFi Area Owner are able to configure each application. The options available are described in this guide, for each single application.

By clicking the  button (Uninstall), if available (depending on the options above mentioned), the Tenant or the WiFi Area Owner are able to remove the application from their workspace. Anyway, the application can be installed again at a later time.

Displaying options

It is also possible, for the applications where this makes sense, to change some details regarding how the application is displayed into the Splash Portal. To do this, it is necessary to enter the desired application, by clicking the button (Manage) and subsequently clicking the Settings button.

Once inside the application, it is possible to set the following fields:

  • Icon: this is the application icon displayed within the App Bar, into the Splash Portal.
  • Pre-authentication: this indicates whether the application is visible and can be used when the end-user is not authenticated
  • Trigger: this indicates that the particular application will be launched in correspondence of an event triggered by the end-user. Not all the applications support this feature. Please note that it is possible to launch only one application per event.

Changing the name of an application

In order to change the name of an application in all Splash Portal sections, it is necessary to create a custom Splash Portal language and modify there the name of the application.
In this way it is possible to change application names for all languages supported by the Splash Portal.

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