In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an app catalog site in SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Online App Catalog
An app catalog is special site collection that we can use to store custom apps (developed for the organization) for your internal organizational use. In Office 365 app catalog, we can store SharePoint Add-ins or apps, SPFx solution packages and also we can store Office apps.
Once the apps are available on the app catalog site, site owners can add them to the particular site collection that they want. When users click on Add an app, they can add the apps from the From Your Organizations filter condition.
Once you create an app catalog site collection in SharePoint Online or Office 365, it is super easy to upload the apps to the app catalog site. Simply, drag the file and drop it into the App for SharePoint document library in the app catalog site collection.
Into the SharePoint online app catalog, we can upload the SharePoint Framework solutions (.sppkg) files.
Create app catalog site collection SharePoint Online (Step by Step)
Now, let us see step by step how to create an app catalog site collection in SharePoint Online Microsoft 365.
Note: To create an app catalog site collection, you need to be a global admin or SharePoint admin in Microsoft 365.
If you are new to Microsoft 365, sign up for an Office 365 trial for free.
Step 1: Open the SharePoint admin center. You can open the SharePoint Online admin center directly from the browser.
https://YourTenantName-admin.sharepoint.com/
Example: https://tsinfotechnologies-admin.sharepoint.com/From the Home page, click on More features like below:
Step-2: This will open the More features page, go to the Apps section and click on Open.
Step-3: This will open the Apps page where you can see various like App Catalog, Purchase Apps, Manage Licenses, Configure Store Settings, Monitor Apps, App Permissions, etc.
Here, click on the App Catalog link below
If you have already created the app catalog site, then when you click on the App Catalog link, it will directly open the App Catalog site collection.
Are you wondering? how many app catalog in SharePoint online? You can have only one app catalog site collection for your entire Office 365 tenant.
If you have not created any app catalog site collection before, then it will open the below screen. Here, it will show a message like There is no app catalog site created for your tenant, and you will see two options below:
- Create a new app catalog site
- Enter a URL for an existing app catalog site
Choose here Create a new app catalog site.
Step-4: Then it will open the Create App Catalog Site Collection page like below, here enter the below details and click on OK to create the app catalog site.
- Title
- Web Site Address
- Language Selection
- Time Zone
- Administrator
- Server Resource Quota