Publishing the App

After you save most changes in the App Manager, the end-user sees the changes when they log out and in to the app or switch profiles. You can force these changes to appear immediately to the end-user by publishing the app.

The following changes display immediately to the end-users even if you do not publish the app:

Changing a map image (and some other images, where noted in this document) - See Adding Maps.
Changing an iPhone / iPad splash page - See Configuring App Information Screens.

You publish the app in either of two ways:

When configuring services (see Configuring Services), select Save & Publish to publish all service changes.
Publish selected changes on one of the Publishing pages (see below).

You can publish some or all changes on one of the Publishing pages (App Settings > Publishing > Publish Content).

Publishing Page (general)

On these pages, each column corresponds to a profile; the last column is used to publish changes for all profiles. Each row corresponds to a Library Mobile feature. On the general Publishing page, the features are:

Maps - See Adding Maps.
Location Categories - See Adding Location Categories.
Services - See Creating Services and Configuring Services.
Home Page Banners - The default banner images. See Configuring Default Banner Service Images.
Content - See Working with Static Content and the Content Menu.
Resources - Not in use.
App Profiles - See Managing Profiles.
Feedback and Sharing - See Configuring App Feedback.
Position Actions - See Adding Actions at Map Locations.

For each profile/feature that is available to publish, the corresponding cell displays a checkbox and the date and time that the feature was most recently changed.

To force changes to immediately appear to end-users, even if they are currently logged into the app:

For each profile, or for all profiles, select the features to publish. If you do not select a particular feature/profile, end-users of that profile will still see the changes for that feature when they log out and in to the app or if they switch profiles.
Select Publish. End-users connected by carrier are asked to update the app (they can defer the update). For other end-users, including end-users using devices connected to Wi-Fi and end-users using a web app in a browser, the changes are seen immediately.