Reviewing the App Portal User Interface

The App Portal user interface (or “storefront”) is where users, managers, requesters, and approvers interact with App Portal. The interface is divided into tabs to organize the content. The tabs displayed will depend on the user’s rights and the configuration settings.

App Portal’s user interface, which is viewed in a web browser, is organized into tabs that extend across the screen horizontally.

The number of tabs each user sees depends upon that user’s permissions. Each tab provides a specific set of App Portal functionality:

App Portal User Interface Tabs

Tab

Description

Dashboard

On this tab you can view helpful reports that demonstrate how much time and money using App Portal is helping you save in your software and operating system deployment projects: Software and OS Deployment ROI Dashboards, and the SLA Dashboard.

Browse Catalog

Use to submit requests for software and other assets.

Note:For more information, see Browse Catalog Tab: Submitting Requests and Configuring a Catalog Item.

My Requests

Use to search for and view all of your submitted requests and those requests which target your current computer.

Note:For more information, see My Requests Tab: Viewing Request Status and Verifying Deployment Status on the My Requests Tab .

My Apps

Lists the applications installed on the user’s device(s), and enables users to address automatic and administrator-defined alerts to ensure that those applications comply with corporate software policies.

Important:This feature requires that App Portal is integrated with FlexNet Manager Suite via the Flexera Service Gateway.

Note:For more information, see My Apps Tab: Managing Your Applications and Software Policy Score™.

Approve / Reject

Lists all requests that are pending your approval. To approve or reject a request, select the row for the item you wish to process and then click the appropriate button: Approve, Reassign, Reject, or Request Info.

Note:For more information, see Approving a Request and Managing Approval Workflows.

Processed

Lists all the items that you have processed (approved or rejected).

Review

List of your requests that are currently under review, such as when an approver asks for additional information before approving it.

Profile

Lists user-specific attributes and settings.

Reporting

Use to view App Portal data in a read-only, searchable, and exportable view. Over 40 reports are included with App Portal.

Note:For more information, see Viewing Reports.

App Survey

On the App Survey tab, users are prompted to identify which applications they want to have redeployed onto a new computer during OS deployment.

Note:App Survey is dependent upon having either a connection to FlexNet Manager Suite or the creation of App Portal inventory records for each application needing to be discovered for the migration process and then associating that inventory record with its associated software catalog item. For more information, see the “Viewing App Survey Results and Migrating Applications” topic in the App Portal / App Broker Administration Guide PDF.

Admin

Contains the following main views:

• Site Management—Use to configure App Portal settings including security, web site settings, deployment technology settings, Active Directory settings, and settings to integrate with the Flexera Service Gateway.
• Catalog Management—Use to create and manage catalog items, which are System Center Configuration Manager applications/programs or Altiris Client Management Suite software products/policies that have been published in App Portal for deployment through the software storefront. Under Catalog Management, you can also manage approval workflows, question templates, and catalog categories.
• Compliance Management—Use to track software licensing and usage using the My Apps feature and by creating upgrade and retire campaigns.

Note:For more information, see Admin Tab: Configuring App Portal and Performing App Portal Administrative Tasks.

Help

You can customize this page to display any content you feel would be most helpful to users at your enterprise.

Note:For more information, see Editing the Help Tab Content.