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Steps

Follow the steps below to publish a YiDA app to your organization’s workbench.
Only organization admins can publish YiDA apps to the DingTalk workbench. If you are not an organization admin, contact your organization admin to publish the app.

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PC

  1. Sign in to the YiDA workbench and click My Apps.
  2. Find the app you want to publish, then click ··· > App Settings.
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Click App Publishing, select Publish to DingTalk workbench, then click Publish.

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On the Publish to DingTalk workbench page, set the workbench group and visibility scope for the app, then click Publish.

Once published to the DingTalk workbench, the app appears in the specified workbench group.
Only enabled apps can be accessed and used to submit data. For details, see Enable or disable an app.
  1. After the app is published, you can also select Publish to YiDA App Center.
Once published, the app appears in the App Center on the YiDA platform and is visible to all members of your organization by default.

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Mobile

  1. Open DingTalk on your mobile device, go to your organization’s workbench, and tap YiDA to open the YiDA workbench.
  2. Tap App Center > Created by Me, then tap the app you want to publish to open its details page.
  3. Tap ··· in the upper-right corner, then tap Publish to Workbench under App Management to complete publishing.

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More

To extend your app to group chats as a Cool App so users can access it directly from the Cool App entry, see Cool App design guide.

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FAQ

Q: How do I share a single form to a group chat? YiDA provides a built-in option to add a page to a group. In the upper-right corner of the form, click More > Add this page to group.
Adding to a group is not supported from a browser. Access the app from the DingTalk client to add it.
Q: How do I change an app’s display position on the DingTalk workbench, or remove an app? A: On the DingTalk mobile app, go to Workbench > YiDA, find the group that contains the app, tap Manage > Sort Apps, and then long-press an app to reorder it.
If the Manage button is not visible, you are not an admin of the current DingTalk organization. Ask an admin to perform this action.
Q: How do I remove unwanted apps from the workbench? A: Path: DingTalk mobile app > Workbench > YiDA > find the group that contains the app > Manage > tap the red bar on the app to remove it.
This only removes the app from the workbench; it does not delete the YiDA app itself.
Q: How do I make a published app visible to only specific users? A: Path: DingTalk mobile app > Workbench > YiDA > find the group that contains the app > Manage > tap Visible to all below the app. Q: How do I publish to a DingTalk custom workbench? A: YiDA currently supports publishing only to custom groups of the standard workbench. To publish to a DingTalk custom workbench, publish the app to the standard workbench first, and then link this shortcut into the custom workbench. Q: Publishing fails when the visibility scope is set to “Only me”. What should I do? A: When the visibility is set to “Only me”, switch My Apps to manual management to make the app visible.
    1. On the workbench, the apps section supports two modes: “Manual management” and “Recently Used”. The default is “Recently Used”. To see published apps, switch to “Manual management” as shown in the video. 2. Apps published under the “My Apps” category on the workbench are not considered “published”, so the publishing status does not change.