Can we get a duplicatable link for the app created

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Hi Team

I am looking for a way which can help duplicate the template onto each person who has access to the link without affecting the original database.

Is it possible?

Also can we get an app to download and use from the system rather than being navigated to the URL?

At present I tried to build something, but the formulas are not working in the Filters when the app is live, rest all is good :+1:

Also how do we delete any added data from the app to the database?

Hope to hear back soon…:slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Sanat,

Welcome to the NotionApps community! We don’t have support for third-party templates just yet. I will discuss this internally and get back to you.
As for the app, we can’t generate Android and iOS apps just yet. It might be possible in the future but not anytime soon.
Formulas that contain rollups might not be visible in the filters just yet. We are trying to find a way to solve this as part of the support for Relations.
You could enable the delete button on any details or update form screen. The screen that opens up once you click on a list row.

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Hi Sanat,

Adding to Jatin’s points,

  1. While we are yet to support 3rd-party app templates on the website, you can send us the link to the app you built on NotionApps and the link of your Notion page (which must consist of all your databases in-line and must be public) to help@notionapps.com and we will add them manually in the backend.

  2. If you want to use the app from the device instead of the browser, you can use “Add to home screen” option when you open the link in a browser. If you want the app as an .apk or .ipa to list on app store there are many tools online that convert PWAs to .apk and .ipa files.

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This request is covered by a workaround, and it is on the roadmap as live.

Problem

A public link should duplicate an app for each person who opens it, including a database of their own, without changing the original. A second ask is to download the app onto the device instead of opening a URL.

Why this is a workaround

Clone, a sample app, and a marketplace template already copy an app’s screens and settings for a maker. A template can provision sample data when that template says it will. There is no public URL that copies a live customer app and its database for anyone who opens the link, and that would risk the original data, so it is not the path. On a phone, Add to home screen is how the app is installed. NotionApps does not produce an App Store or Play Store binary.

How to use it

Copy an app you already own into the same account.

  1. Open the app list and clone the app.
  2. The clone copies the screens, the settings, and the workflow bindings. It points at the Notion databases. It does not copy every row unless you started from a template that provisions sample data.
  3. If the copy must have its own data, create or connect the new Notion databases and point the clone at those. The original app and the original database stay as they were.
  4. Publish the clone and test it with a user who is not a user of the original.

Start someone else from a template.

  1. Use a sample app or a marketplace template from Start from a template.
  2. That flow creates their app from the template. When the template includes sample data, they get that sample data, not your live rows.
  3. Their copy does not write back to your original database.

There is no link you can post that duplicates your live app for each visitor. Use the template or the clone. Do not share a link to the live app and expect it to fork.

Install the app on a phone.

  1. Open the published app in the phone’s browser.
  2. Use Add to home screen.
  3. The icon opens the app. It is not an .ipa or an .apk, and it is not listed by NotionApps in the App Store or Play Store.
  4. Later publishes are picked up by closing and reopening that home-screen app. They do not require a new download.

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