Packaging with applications

Studio provides a faster, simpler way to build applications quickly, easily, and with useful defaults. But it also provides a mechanism to package up your work, send it to another instance, and export it in an Update Set or in a Git repository.

Tip

When an application is created, a new entry is made in the Application Picker in the System menu. This mechanism of selecting the app you are currently working on is similar to an Update Set; when you perform a configuration, it gets recorded against that application.

Application use cases

We first started seeing the benefits of applications in Chapter 2, Developing Custom Applications . The ability of scope to control how users and other applications interact protect the instance's ability to secure data and get stuff down. Additionally, as we'll see in the next few sections, scoped applications provide a great way to package configuration work together in a controlled fashion-and then share it between instances.

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