Catalog Appearance Tab

App Portal / App Broker for ServiceNow 2016 | Settings > Web Site

On the Catalog Appearance tab of the Settings > Web Site view, you specify the appearance settings of the App Portal website.

Settings > Web Site View / Catalog Appearance Tab

The Catalog Appearance tab of the Web Site view includes three sets of properties:

Catalog Tab Strip
Catalog Appearance
Visual Styling

Catalog Tab Strip

The Catalog Tab Strip area of the Catalog Appearance tab of the Web Site view includes the following properties:

Catalog Tab Strip Area Properties

Property

Description

Enable Help Desk Tools Tab

Determines whether the Support Tools tab is displayed to members of the Request on Behalf of group.

Display Application Survey Tab

Select this option to display the App Survey tab, which is where users can identify which applications they want to have redeployed onto a new computer using System Center Configuration Manager OSD.

The results of the survey are added to Deployment Management AppSurvey Results, where technicians can review the surveys and apply the selected applications to the new computer.

Hide Profile Tab

When enabled, the Profile tab will not be visible. This will prevent the user from selecting an alternate approver or specifying a preferred language.

Hide Help Tab

When enabled, the Help tab will not be visible.

Always Show Approval Tabs

When enabled, the Approve / Reject tab and the Processed tabs will be visible to everyone, even if they are not an approver.

Catalog Appearance

The Catalog Appearance area of the Catalog Appearance tab of the Web Site view includes the following properties:

Catalog Appearance Area

Property

Description

Hide Inventory Column

Select to hide the Inventory column on the My Requests tab. When this column is visible, it displays one of the following icons:

  License required

  License not available

  License not required

Hide Approval Column

Select to the Approval column on the My Requests tab. When this column is visible, it displays one of the following icons:

  Pending Approval

  Approved

  No Approval Required

Enable dynamic search hints

No longer used.

Show results with visibility restrictions

No longer used.

Show Keyword Search

Show Best Rating Search

Show new items search

Show most popular search

Select these options to enable users to filter catalog items by:

Trending Keywords
Top Rated
What’s New
Most Popular

When these options are selected, catalog items in these categories are also listed on the App Portal home page.

Day limit for new items

If you select the Show new items search option, specify the number of days that an item would be listed in the What’s New group.

Default Catalog View

Specify whether you want the catalog items to be displayed on the Browse Catalog tab, by default, in Card or Grid view.

Visual Styling

The Visual Styling area of the Catalog Appearance tab of the Web Site view includes the following properties:

Visual Styling Area

Property

Description

Company Logo URL

This field lists the location of the company logo that appears at the top left of all App Portal screens. By default, the location of the App Portal logo is listed in this field:

/ap/Images/ap-logo.jpg

To customize the App Portal site to display a different logo, enter the logo’s location in this field. You can specify either a local file or a URL to a file at a remote location.

URL for company support home page

When specified, an image will appear in the top right of the store front and will link to the URL specified.

Hover text for support icon

The text that appears when you hover over the support image when the URL is specified.

Allow User Theme Selection

Note • No longer used. The Flexera custom style is permanently selected.

Built-in Web Site Theme

Note • No longer used. The Flexera custom style is permanently selected.

Custom Web Site Theme

(Read Only) Lists the Flexera theme, which is permanently selected for the App Portal site.

Apply custom theme to Admin UI

Note • No longer used. The Flexera custom style is permanently selected.

Enable Form Decoration

Use to enable or disable the styling of HTML elements (scrollbars, buttons, and text boxes) to match that of the theme selected.

Splitter Height Offset

Specifies the height, in pixels, of the heading area of the App Portal website, which is the area of the website that displays the App Portal logo, the user name and the computer name. If you have customized your App Portal website to use a different logo, as described in Changing the Page Header Logo, you may want to increase or decrease this number.