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Create an Empty Application

A West Connectivity Application enables developers to create and deploy custom interfaces and API services. Applications combine three key features:

  • A custom API with definable endpoints (routes), scripted logic, and integration with a User Service for permission control.
  • Asset hosting for deploying static file based applications, like a CDN.
  • Service event handler scripts that have access to all West Connectivity services.

Web UI Flow

To create an Empty Application using the Web UI:

Search for application

On the marketplace page, select the Applications on category filter:

Create application filter

You will find several other Application templates with various added functionalities. Including:

  • Empty Application - An empty Application.

Choose and create an application

For simple usage, you can choose Empty Application by clicking on Learn more:

Create application

On the element page, click on CREATE APPLICATION

Create application

Fill in the information

Fill in the application name and sub-domain, Click on CREATE

Create application

A pop-up window will appear, allowing you to link an existing Connector, you can refer Link the Connector for more details or skip it for now.

Link connector pop-up

Manage the application

Select the Application you just created on HOME page

Create application

You can see the webservice API domain created automatically. You can access it by clicking on the right menu Go-To-Application. Another key information is the Application solution unique ID which will be usefull for development & troubleshooting.

Copy the application solution ID

Go to the top-left portion of the screen, click on the ID button to copy the solution ID

Create application