Getting Started
Welcome to the Digitise Apps Online Help.
Digitise Apps provides a simple, secure and robust environment in which to develop, deploy and run your own in-house business apps for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
The Getting Started
It aims to get you started creating your own mobile apps. We suggest you start with the following topics:
- Introduction to Digitise Apps - A brief introduction to Digitise Apps.
- Digitise Apps Components - A guide to the component parts of your Digitise Apps software.
- Introduction to Creating Digitise apps - An overview of the app creation process in Digitise Apps.
- Developing Digitise apps for Apple iOS Devices - Important information about developing Digitise apps for Apple devices - you can ignore this topic if you don't intend to create apps for Apple devices.
- Developing Digitise apps for Windows Devices - Important information about developing Digitise apps for Windows devices.
- The Digitise Apps Build System - Build Standalone Apps & Pre-Configured Clients - A guide to the remote NDL-hosted system for building Standalone Apps and pre-configured Digitise Apps Clients.
- Introduction to App Studio - An introduction to the App Studio development environment's main window and its constituent parts.
You can then work through the additional topics in this section from the help menus within this online help.
To help you navigate through the online help, menus are provided along the top and on the right of each page, together with 'breadcrumbs' at the top left of each topic:
Clicking on a menu item in the top menu will display the initial page for that section and then the right-hand menu lists any additional topics. Hovering your mouse pointer over a top menu item will also display the menu of additional topics for that section, where there are additional topics. You can display a topic by selecting it either from the right-hand menu or from the appropriate drop-down top menu.
Below a certain window width, the right-hand menu isn't displayed to save space and the top menu will change to a hamburger menu, 
. Click on the hamburger to display the menu.
'Breadcrumbs',e.g.: 
in the picture above, show you your current position in the online help and allow you to move to any of the topics in the path displayed by clicking on the topic you want to move to.
You can return to the Home page at any time by clicking or tapping the Digitise Apps icon, 
, in the top left-hand corner of every page.
Within a topic, a 
symbol indicates hidden text. To reveal the text click on the symbol or the text beside it. The symbol will change to a 
to indicate that the text is currently showing. To hide the text again, click on the or the text beside it.
You can expand and hide all hidden text on a page by clicking on the 
button in the top right-hand corner of the page.
You can also print individual pages using the 
button, beside the Expand All button, .
To prevent repetition, topics often contains links to other topics. Clicking on a link will display the linked topic so that you can get more information about the subject if you wish. Links are displayed underlined, e.g. Introduction to App Studio, and will generally open a new browser window or tab or display a popup window over the existing window/tab. To close a popup window, click on the close button, top right, or outside the popup window.
Once you are familiar with the basics, the User Guide section provides more in-depth details about Digitise Apps' features and functionality, covering both App Studio and App Manager.