Introduction to Applications – BRYTER | Help Center

The application is the foundational entity in the BRYTER platform. An application serves as the boundary for your project: It can contain modules, databases, data views, and pages. These components play together within an application to make one specific use case possible.

Work with applications

In an application, you can add other authors as collaborators to build the application together with them.
To make applications available to end users, you publish your application. You can also configure who has end user access to modules, data views, pages or the application itself.
To ensure correct branding of the application towards your end users, theme it!

Create and configure an application

Click New application on the screen that appears immediately after login.
Choose the type of application you want to create. You can:
- Create an empty application from scratch by typing a name.
- Start with a blueprint, which offers a generic structure for certain application types, while remaining use case agnostic.
- Explore example applications, which are pre-built use cases that you can either adopt or use as inspiration.
- Examine a proposed solution for exercises in the BRYTER Learning Program.
Click Create.

When you create a new application from a blueprint, example or proposed solution, a new personal copy is generated exclusively for you. You can confidently modify this copy without impacting others.

Return to the application list by clicking Applications or the BRYTER logo in the top left corner.

Change external display name

You can change the name that is displayed to end users when they open the application.

In the Sidebar section on the Publish page, you can also change the external application title by typing a new name in the input field next to the Sidebar heading.
This name appears in the top-left corner of the sidebar in the published application.

Provide an application summary

On the Components page, you can provide an application summary and ensure collaborators who join you in building have the necessary context. Hover over the summary at the top the screen and then click Edit summary.

Elevate your application summary by adding files, images, tables, and emojis. This will provide a more detailed description of your applications and foster collaboration

Sort and order components and control sidebar visibility

Application components on the Components page can be sorted sorted by last updated or manually ordered by you.

Sorted by last updated

When you opt to sort by last updated, new or recently modified components will automatically display at the top of the list.

Ordered manually

Alternatively, you can arrange components manually to suit your preferences.

Configure your application sidebar

You can customize which components appear in the sidebar and how they are labeled for end users.

Select Publish in the side navigation.
There, click Manage sidebar items to select the components you want to display in the sidebar. Confirm your selection by clicking Update.
The selected components will now appear in a list where you can drag and drop to reorder them.
For each component, the internal component name (used when building) is shown as static text on the left. Next to it is an input field where you can enter the external component name, the label displayed to end users in the sidebar of the published application.
Click Save changes to confirm your sidebar configuration.

Show related components

Through the Show related option in the context menu (accessible via the three dot icon in the Module, data views, and pages or Databases list), you can examine a module's connections to databases, data views, and other modules. This feature reveals the components referenced within the module's Redirect result, Batch Process action, or Read From and Write to a Database action nodes, all conveniently visualized in the Related components modal and separated by incoming and outgoing relations.

Click on any component to switch and see how other components relate to it. Click on the Open icon in the right-hand corner to launch the component's editor.

Similarly, you can view a data view's connections (via configured data view actions) and a database's connections to modules.

Deleted or moved components that are still referenced in a module or data view are displayed as missing.

Manage modules and data views

In the Modules, data views, and pages list, you can start editing your modules, data views, and pages and you can specify how they are displayed to end users when the application is published:

To edit them, click on the respective row, for example on the icon next to the name. This also applies to databases in the Databases section below.
Use the In sidebar status, to control whether or not the module or data view is displayed in the application sidebar of a published application.
Set the End user access to specify who can access the module, data view or page as an end user.
Clicking on the bold name of the module or data view allows you to edit the display name as seen by end users in the application sidebar.
Use the six dot icon on the left side of the list to arrange the order in which the modules and data views are displayed to end users in the application sidebar.
Use the search field to search for modules, data views, pages, and databases by their name. Typing in the component type (for example: data views) will filter all components of this type (in our example: all data views).

When making changes in the list, do not forget to save them!