1 The three pages
| Page | Address | Used by |
|---|---|---|
| The shop | /ShopModern | Shoppers: find, order, uninstall and repair software, follow their orders. See the user guide, The shop at a glance. |
| Approvals | /ApproveModern | Approvers: decide orders, see their history, set a temporary approver. See Approving orders. |
| My Account | /MyAccountModern | Shoppers: their order history. Opened from the shopper's name in the shop. See My Account. |
Shoppers and approvers normally never type these addresses. The rollout switch decides who gets the
new pages when they open the addresses they already use, /Shop and /Approve —
and the links in the approval mails. Until you turn it on, nobody sees the new shop. See
Rolling out the new shop.
2 The path of an order
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Basket | Held in the shopper's session only. Nothing is written to the database, so an abandoned basket leaves no trace. Programs with order details ask their questions here. |
| Check out | The order and its items are registered, with the order details and attachments, and the shopper gets the order-confirmation mail. |
| Approval | Items that need approval get the application's approval flow, and the approvers are mailed. Items that do not need approval go straight to deployment. An approver approves, declines or sends the order back; the shopper is mailed each time. |
| Deployment | An approved item is deployed to the device through Configuration Manager or Intune, the same way as from the classic shop. |
| Status | What the device reports comes back to the shop: the card shows Installed or the status the device reported. |
Three things change the path:
- Install before approval on an application deploys it at once and runs the approval afterwards; an order nobody approves in time can be declined automatically.
- Previously approved: when allowed, a shopper who was approved for the same application before is not asked again.
- Uninstall, repair and reinstall never need approval.
3 What a shopper sees
Every shopper sees their own catalogue: the applications offered in the shop that they, and the device they shop for, are allowed to get.
Which applications those are follows from the same rules as in the classic shop: how each application is published to the shop, the collections and groups it is assigned to, its life-cycle status, and your shop settings. On top of that, the new shop adds shelves (Featured and Trending), messages, info fields, search tags and colour themes.
4 Which device
Everything a shopper orders is installed on one device, shown under their name. The shop finds it, in this order, from:
- the SoftwareCentral client on the computer, when it is installed;
- the device the shopper chose before, which the shop remembers;
- the shopper's primary devices in Configuration Manager and Intune, when you use them in the shop — one device is picked automatically, several are offered as a choice;
- the computer the request comes from, looked up by its network address.
If none of these give an answer, the shop cannot open. See The SoftwareCentral client for why the client is the most reliable of these, and Your device for what shoppers see.
5 Where to configure what
| To | Go to |
|---|---|
| Pilot the new shop, then give it to everyone | Settings › SoftwareCentral › New Shop |
| Shelves, glass cards, A–Z position, languages, install requests | Settings › SoftwareCentral › New Shop |
| Logo, title, filters, view, sorting, attachments, approvers' options | Settings › SoftwareCentral › Shop |
| What an application shows and how it is approved | The application's shop settings — see Preparing applications and Approvals and mails |
| Messages at the top of the shop | Manage Shop Messages |
| Extra rows in the details, findable by search | Manage Shop Info Fields |
| Words that help shoppers find applications | Manage Search Tags |
| Colour themes and logos per theme | Shop Designer |
| What shoppers reported | Shop Debug Reports |
| The mails | Mail Template Editor |