Managing Marketplace Content

Last modified: November 9, 2026

Introduction

If your organization has enabled the Marketplace for your Private Mendix Platform, you can build your own connectors and modules, and then share them on the Marketplace, so that other teams from your organization can use the connector in their own apps.

Creating Marketplace Content

For more information about building a connector for your Mendix app, see the following topics:

Sharing Marketplace Content

To share the connector that you built, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Private Mendix Platform navigation menu, click Marketplace > My Content.

  2. Click Upload Content.

  3. In the Upload Component tab, perform the following actions:

    1. Enter a Component name and select one of the following Component Types:

      • Module - Software functionality that can include a data model, logic, and UI with a portable security model.
      • Widget - Single user-interface elements like containers, drop-down menus, and buttons.
      • Service - Software functionality that can be re-used for different use cases. Services usually include APIs that you can interact with by configuring a connection in the app's module.
      • Solution - Out-of-the-box solutions that are aimed at industry and domain problems, delivering instant value. These solutions are usually at least 80% ready for use, and need minimal adaptation to make them work for a customer-specific use case.
      • Sample - A project that provides an overview of the capabilities a product can perform. The project can act as an example, sales play, demo, or template.
      • Starter Template - Sample projects that have certain capabilities in place to provide a basis for you to start developing your own app. You do not need to create an app from a blank template, as you can use a template that already has some features configured. In addition, a template can have a personalized style that can be shared and used to enrich other apps with a specific design.
      • Industry Template - Accelerators for implementing industry-specific processes. Industry templates increase speed-to-value and time-to-market, and are great starting points for common use cases within the relevant industry. Contrary to solutions, industry templates are starter templates intended to provide inspiration for utilizing Mendix to create apps for industry-specific processes. They usually cover around 20% of the process.

    2. Click Next.

    3. In the Upload MPK field, click Browse and select the .mpk file that you created for your component.

    4. In the Studio Pro Version drop-down, select the minimum version of Studio Pro required by your component.

    5. In the Release Version section, select the Major, Minor, and Patch version of your component.

    6. Provide Release Notes to describe the contents of the version you are uploading, and click Next.

  4. In the General Info tab, perform the following actions:

    1. Select the Cover Image that will be displayed for your connector. The suggested image resolution is 600x240 px.
    2. In the Tagline field, include a short description of what your component does.
    3. In the About field, describe the purpose and use cases of your component in detail.
    4. From the Industry drop-down list, select up to three industries that are applicable to your component.
    5. From the Category drop-down list, select up to three areas of expertise that are applicable to your component.

  5. In the Support and Licensing tab, perform the following actions:

    1. Optional: Enter the URL of your support portal, if available.

    2. Provide a support department contact email for the users of your component.

    3. Specify whether the component should be visible for everyone, or visible for specific groups.

    4. Select the type of License you want applied to your app. For details about the available open-source software licenses and their requirements, refer to Open-Source Software Licenses.

    5. In the Owner field, select the group that owns the component, and then click Next.

      This is a required field. If an asset was created without a group association and its visibility was later changed to Private (which would effectively make it group content), there would be no group to which the asset belongs. This would create ambiguity around ownership and prevent the asset from appearing correctly under group-owned resources, making governance and management more difficult.

  6. In the Media and Documentation tab, perform the following actions:

    1. Use the Upload Screenshots option to add a maximum of 10 screenshots of your component.

    2. In the YouTube Video field, add a URL for a demo of your component.

    3. In the Documentation field, add details on requirements and configuration for your component.

      Follow the template for the recommended content:

      • The Typical usage scenario for the component
      • The Features and limitations of the component
      • Any Dependencies (for example, the required Studio Pro version, modules, images, and styles)
      • The Installation steps and details
      • The Configuration steps and details
      • Any Known bugs
      • Any Frequently Asked Questions

      This field supports rich text.

    4. In the Resources section, add up to 5 URLs for resources that your users might find useful, such as a GitHub URL.

    5. Click Show Preview if you want to preview your component, or Publish if you want to publish it directly.

Depending on the process set up by your Private Mendix Platform administrator, your component may be subject to an approval process before it is shared with other users.

Accessing Company and Group Content

The Marketplace page is a local version of the Mendix Marketplace, enclosed entirely within the Private Platform. You can access it by clicking Marketplace > Company Content in the Private Mendix Platform navigation menu.

The page shows content available to end users, organized by category. You can click View More to view all items from a particular category. You can also click a content item to view or download it from the Private Platform Marketplace.

To view all the components owned by your groups, use the My Group Contents page. You can access it by clicking Marketplace > Group Content in the Private Mendix Platform navigation menu. Only items that have been shared with the relevant group are displayed here. Draft versions of content are not shown on the page.