Building an AppCloud App for use within your organization only.

I am re-posting this from, Register your App! because, it was a good point this should have been a separate discussion.

Scott

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  Scott KentJul 14, 2014 4:56 PM

I am trying to get more details on how to Build/Register "Private" AppCloud Apps and confirm at design time that we can deploy our in-house AppCloud Apps on several of our Eloqua instances without publishing them.

My assumption is that one would setup the App under the Provider section for each of the Eloqua instances so that each Eloqua Instance can see and install our our in-house private app and use it without publishing. I worry about this method because it give the impression the AppCloud App is in development or testing.

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I was hoping there was some way to officially register our app so we are using a production workflow but our app is not published or listed anywhere?

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  T.J. FieldsJul 14, 2014 6:06 PM (in response to Scott Kent)

Hi Scott,

The best practice here would be for you to:

1. Register as a Provider in a development instance of Eloqua.

2. Build out your app and Register it, along with your Service(s) under that Provider.

3. Whitelist any Eloqua client installs that you wish to allow to use your App.  Do this by clicking the Publish to Another Site button.

4. Give the App install URL (found at the bottom of the App Details page under Catalog) to any of those clients that you whitelisted to use your app.

This way, only those clients that you've specified will be able to install and use your App, and it's not listed anywhere.  You could also click the Publish to App Cloud button, which simply whitelists every install.  The App will never actually be listed anywhere, as there is not yet a mechanism in the framework to do this.  The only way to find and install your App is by using that install URL, so you'd have to give it out.

If you are a client that is building an App for use within your organization, you could also use your company's Eloqua install to register your provider, but as a development partner, your developer instance is intended to be used to register and manage your services.

Hope this helps.