Component Review Guidelines

Before you submit your component for review, make sure you've reviewed the guidelines on this page. The criteria are split into three categories: Proper Use, Design, and Support.

In addition to these guidelines, component plug-ins must follow the general AppMarket submission policies.

Proper use

• No replacements: Components must not duplicate or replace standard Appian components, regardless of styling, formatting, or minor functional differences.
• No composites: Components must not duplicate or replace functionality that can otherwise be created with standard Appian components.
• No full-page applications: Components must not be complete applications, independent of the surrounding Appian interface. Components should be modular, designed to work with other components to create a complete user experience, and should not be intended to fill the entire screen. Components that embed or integrate with external applications will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
• No navigation: Components must not navigate users away from Appian interfaces.

Design

• Components should be visually consistent with the rest of Appian, including branding configurations using the accent color.
• Components should have a clear, narrow purpose. Avoid having a component with too many responsibilities. It is better to decompose a multi-purpose component into several more focused components.
• External dependencies and costs should be clearly identified in the component description.
• Components should not output messages to the browser console log. Errors or other information should be shown in the component or passed to the interface via parameters or validation messages.
• Components must not include any proprietary third party libraries that require a license to be distributed or deployed in production, or require distribution of source code as a condition of use.

Support

• You must properly identify your organization as the component vendor.
• You must declare whether your plug-in is officially supported. *Official support- means customers can expect a response to inquiries and that bugs will be addressed in a timely manner.
• Supported plug-ins must include valid support contact details.
• Individual components must declare their support for browsers and mobile clients.

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