Understanding Apps (Portal Pages) as a Web Developer
Portal Pages have been renamed to Apps in 7.1.0.
This article provides information for web developers who are starting to get familiar with Apps (Portal Pages) and answers the following questions:
What Are Apps?
Apps enable the development of single webpages and multi-page websites hosted on Metric Insights. They are incredibly flexible, allowing you to utilize the basic toolset for building websites: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The tools permit a User to create highly curated experiences around content from any source supported in Metric Insights.
Apps can be embedded directly into your existing Metric Insights Portal, or you can use the Layout function to create your own branded App or website in which to embed these Apps, with no visible Metric Insights UI.
Where Do I Find Information on Building Apps?
- App Templates allow building multiple Apps based on a single template, which prevents code duplication and allows customization.
- Modifying App Template with Custom Variables provides details on Variables - App Template utilities that provide customization for Apps built with the same Template.
- Assets and Entities are explained in the corresponding articles:
- App Developers FAQs answers some of the questions regarding supported App functionality.
- Code Snippets for Apps provides real examples of code that can be used in your Apps.
- If you are an MI Admin user, see Overview of Apps.