Office as a Platform: Publish a SharePoint Application in the Office Store

Here is a continuation of a series of articles on developing cloud applications for Office 365 SharePoint Online. In this article in the series, Dmitry Plotnikov, a SharePoint consultant, talks about publishing ready-made SharePoint applications to the Office Store. You can always find all the articles in the Office as Platform column under the link #officeplatform - Vladimir Yunev.

In this article I will talk about working with the app store. In the application store there are extensions for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and so on, but this article is only about SharePoint.

Application Installation

Compared to the on-premises version of SharePoint, Office 365 users do not have to configure anything. The store is available at a direct link http://store.office.com .

The installation process itself is extremely simple, just select the collection of sites where you will deploy the application of your choice



And at the end, be sure to click on Trust It



To remove an installed application, use the corresponding button from the context menu

Publication

To publish applications, use the Sales Dashboard. After creating the account, the validation process will take place, and proceed to publish the applications.

In the first step, select the type of application



The next step indicates general information about the application, including the name, logos, a link to help, and so on.





Next, indicate the country, and the corresponding name and description



the following indicates the availability of the application for the countries of the world



in the last step, select a price model



In general, the publication process is very simple, but of course there are certain subtleties, some of which you can find out by studying the links from the section below.

useful links

Checklist for checking an application before publishing an

FAQ for publishing

an

Office App Compatibility Kit

What's next?

The following articles in the series will talk about connecting to Office 365 from various applications, working with the Office Graph API, issues of code migration and migration, and organization of continuous development. Stay tuned!

For authors

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about the author

Plotnikov Dmitry Alexandrovich
Founder and SharePoint Consultant @ PlotnikovSoft

Microsoft MVP since 2011, I have a personal blog about SharePoint and Office 365. I run a small company for the implementation and maintenance of enterprise systems based on SharePoint / Office365.