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When building a Universal app, you can let your creativity run wild. The app has a number of page types a custom page, you can create dashboards with meaningful statistics from your data that you can share with other (external) users.

In order to use a Universal App in your Base, you must first add it to your Base.

Create the Universal App

Learn how to add a Universal App to your Base here.

After you have successfully created your universal app, you can start designing it. Make sure to always use the pencil icon to enter the editing mode of the app.

Edit apps

A Universal App consists of several pages that you can group into folders.

Learn how to add new pages and folders to your Universal App here .

To prepare the data in your Base in an appealing way, the Universal App offers a variety of page types with different design elements.

Page Types Universal App

When designing a universal app, you’ll want to test how the app looks to users in between. To do this, you can simply preview in Edit mode.

Within a Universal App, you can make various global settings. For example, you can change the name, color, and URL of your app. You can make the desired adjustments with just a few clicks via the app settings.

Opening the app settings of the Universal App

Learn more about the global settings of the Universal App here.

The version management of each app offers you the option of saving snapshots of the structure of an app. You can find out how to create an app snapshot here . Please note what an app snapshot saves - and what it does not save.

Page permissions in a universal app

To precisely control access to your data, you can set individual page permissions for each page you have added to a Universal App. Editing page permissions is always done through the page settings, which you can access via the gear icon .

Open the page settings

Learn more about the different page permissions in the Universal App here.

Add new users, create and assign roles - in the user and role management of a Universal App you can perform various administrative activities.

User and role management of a universal app

Learn more about the user and role management of the Universal App here.

You can also share a universal app with other users via the user and role management . To do this, simply generate an individual invitation link or use a QR code.

Have you built a universal app that you would like to use in a similar form for another user group? Then just copy the existing app and customize the copy as you like. You can learn how to copy a Universal App here .

If you’ve created a Universal App that you want to temporarily disable, you can disable it with just a few clicks to revoke access to all user groups. You can find out how to do this here .

You can delete a universal app that you no longer need at any time. Please note the consequences of the deletion.

Learn more about deleting a Universal App here.

While the universal app has many advantages over working in the base, there is a big difference if you want to work on the data together in a team. In a base, every change made by other users is displayed immediately. The entries change in real time. This type of collaborative work is not supported in the Universal app.

Nevertheless, you also have the option of communicating with other team members in an app. To do this, use the comment function that you already know in the same form from Base. Record your feedback or additional information on the data records for the other app users and hold discussions on the spot.

Comment function in universal apps

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