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Yes123
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Cannot create dashboard from App

Nor me, nor other users can create dashboards from the Apps I have created. It says "Read-only content can't be pinned". Have I missed something, this feels like a core feature?   When we used cont...
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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Yes123 The transition to Apps from Content Packs is currently a little rough if you were using some of the "Customize" features in Content Packs. From my understanding the features will grow for Apps, but currently they are read-only and there is no flexibility with them as it relates to making versions of your own things from them. They are however, the future as it was announced that at some point Content Packs will be deprecated.

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    Yes123
    Frequent Visitor
    8 years ago

    Thanks Anonymous

     

    However, it feels strange that a core feature like dashboards is not included in Apps yet

    So the short time fix is to not use Apps, but the old Content packs, I guess

    • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
      v-huizhn-msft
      Microsoft Employee
      8 years ago

      Hi Yes123,

      As the Anonymous said, the shared apps are read-only, we can't edit it. So that no users can create dashboards from the Apps There is an feature request, please review and vote it. Maybe the feature will come soon after more people's needs.

      Best Regards,
      Angelia