Home Feed Apps, also known as My Apps, was designed to give administrators a way to "showcase" specific rooms, collections or plugins (links) to users. Different sets of home feed apps can be created and assigned to different users, based on user requirements.
Depending on permissions, users can further customize their My Apps section by adding or removing resources.
Configure Home Feed Apps
- In the left nav search for plugins
- Select the custom plugins tab
- Click New Plugin
- Select HomeFeedApps as the plugin type and expand the security settings
- Assign permissions
- To assign permission to a group or specific individuals choose Custom user and group mapping
- To assign permission to a group or specific individuals choose Custom user and group mapping
- Assign a custom label
- This will not be visible to end users. This is only visible on the plugin for administrators to easily see what each plugin is for.
- This will not be visible to end users. This is only visible on the plugin for administrators to easily see what each plugin is for.
- Select the rooms, plugins and collections that should be displayed to the users
- By default, all items are locked preventing the user from removing them from their My Apps section. To allow users to remove any of the items, hover over the item and click the lock to unlock it.
- Click Save
Information for End Users
Users that have permission to see My Apps should now see the rooms, plugins and collections when clicking Home on the left nav.
Here is an example of what the users sees in the app.
Users can customize their My Apps by going to their profile and clicking on the house icon.
Items that have not been locked, can be removed by hovering over the item and clicking the X. If an item has a lock, the administrator has locked this item and it can't be removed.
Additional items can be added by typing the name in the search field and adding it.