📄️ Introduction to Smart Desktop Designer
The Smart Desktop Designer (SDD) helps you implement an integrated fully functioning desktop with little or no development work. You can make changes and customize it as needed. When you're happy with your design, you can publish it and deploy it to your end users.
📄️ Build your smart desktop
In this tutorial, we use the Smart Desktop Designer (SDD) to build a sample smart desktop. We then publish it, and deploy it on our own desktop.
📄️ Add an app to your smart desktop
Apps are at the heart of your smart desktop, so you need to be able to add one. It doesn’t matter what kind of an app it is, whether web or native. You add apps of all types the same way, by adding a config entry to your appD. The details of course will be different for each.
📄️ Manage apps and services
The Manage apps screen has 2 tabs, one for apps and the other one for app services.
📄️ Theme
Finsemble provides a default look which you can keep as is, or you can change it. Your desktop design is highly customizable.
📄️ Toolbar
If your users often perform a group of related tasks, you can make it convenient for them by grouping apps for performing these tasks into a menu. This way, the users don't need to search a long list of apps for the one they want. Instead, they just go to that one location to access all the related apps.
📄️ Authentication
A typical smart desktop contains many different apps from various vendors. Many of these vendors require authentication. But authenticating each app separately is annoying to the user. To solve this problem, single sign-on (SSO) authentication allows the user to sign in once, and from then on all the apps authenticate through SSO.
📄️ Preloads
Preload extensions help you to change behavior or add functionality to an existing app without having to modify the app code. You can configure preloads for your apps on the Optional screen.
📄️ Finish
After you complete your desktop and are ready to share it with others, the last step is to share your project.