Public Marketplace

Last modified: November 1, 2024

Introduction

The Marketplace Curation feature is a governance capability within the Mendix Platform. With this feature, you can translate the company’s policies and guidelines for public Marketplace content to curation settings. Marketplace components that meet these requirements will get a recommended label: RECOMMENDED. This way, developers from your company can easily see which public content is recommended according to your company policies and guidelines. This functionality provides several key benefits:

  • Developer guidance: Developers can easily identify Marketplace content suitable for their apps by filtering Marketplace content by the recommended label in Studio Pro’s Marketplace section or on the Marketplace website. This helps developers find valuable and relevant content for app development in your company. For more information, see Displaying Recommended Marketplace Content in Studio Pro
  • Enhanced marketplace exploration: By specifying criteria for recommended content, developers can explore a wider array of public content, enabling them to leverage resources for their apps.
  • Governance control: Centralized curation allows Mendix Admins to translate the offline policies and guidelines to an in-platform experience, establishing efficient communication and time-saving processes between developers and Mendix Admins.

The Marketplace Curation page contains two tabs: the Curation Settings tab and the Marketplace Content List tab.

Curation Settings

On the Curation Settings tab, you can configure company policies and guidelines for public Marketplace content. Select the support types and license types. Public Marketplace components that meet your requirements will be automatically labeled as recommended. For instance, in the following example, any component supported by the Community or Platform and licensed under Apache v2 or BSD 2.0 will be labeled as recommended.

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Marketplace Content List

On the Marketplace Content List tab, you can find all public Marketplace content in the list. The list includes information about whether a component carries the recommended label, and if so, the source of the label. For more information, see the description of the list items at the end of this section.

You can manually add or remove a label after selecting the content from the list. For content not recommended based on your curation settings, you can manually add the label by clicking the Add Label button. Conversely, for content recommended based on the curation settings, you can manually remove the label by clicking the Remove Label button.

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The list shows the following details:

  • Content Name – This shows the name of the content.

  • Support – This shows the support type of the content.

  • Updated on – This shows the date when the content was most recently updated.

  • License – This shows the license of the content.

  • Label – This shows whether the content has a recommended label.

  • Source – This indicates the origin of the label:

    • Curation Setting – The recommended label is added automatically based on the curation settings.
    • Manual – The recommended label is added manually by a Mendix Admin.

Displaying Recommended Marketplace Content in Studio Pro

In Studio Pro’s Marketplace section, developers can view all the Marketplace components, no matter they are recommended content or not. To only see recommended content, simply select the check box: Show RECOMMENDED. The recommended label is also visible on the details page on the main panel.

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