Lanetix Apps is a simple way to interact with your other tools inside of Lanetix, gaining collaboration and speed in your operation. Lanetix Apps allows you to access almost anything inside of Lanetix - your calendar, reporting tools, CRM dashboard, and much more.

View your data in your own BI tool, or use ours:​​​​​​

Why did we build this?

At Lanetix we use over a dozen, different tools to run our business. We’ve carefully selected each one and have invested time and resources implementing them. We rely on these tools everyday.

To name a few, we use G Suite for Email and Calendar, GitHub for Engineering,  Mode Analytics for reporting and analytics, and Trello for ad-hoc project management. Each tool is vital to how we run our business. 

We strive to make the transition between each tool as seamless as possible. Lanetix Apps helps us move from one tool to the next. 

For Admins: Creating Apps within a Record

The ability to add, edit, & delete an App is limited to the Studio and therefore only customer-admins and LX Staff can access this functionality. 

• Go to Studio
• Select the Record Template
• Select Apps

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To create a new App:

1. App Name - This is the name that will appear in the right-nav for the Record. Template Strings are supported and this field can be edited after creation
2. API Name - This cannot be edited after creation
3. URL - This is the link to the page that will be displayed on the Record Template, and this field can be edited after creation. Use template strings to have record specific urls (see below for a deeper dive into this subject)
4. Open in new window - This setting can be useful when your app won’t load in an iframe (ie: due to content restrictions.

A level deeper ---- creating links specific to a certain Record.

Most Business Intelligence (BI) Tools offer a way to Embed their reports inside of Lanetix. Check out their help documentation and search for embed or iframe.

Here are some links to the appropriate Knowledge Base Article for the most popular BI Tools:

• Tableau
• Mode Analytics
• Microsoft Power BI
• Qlik
• Looker

Since template strings are supported in URLs you can create Lanetix Apps that are specific to a certain record.

For example, you can create a Lanetix App for your BI Tool to give a specific report for each record:

1. Create a new field on the Record Template called 'Report ID' 
2. Set the field API name as report_id.
3. Set the field type as String
4. Add the field to any page on your Record Template and publish the change.
5. Create a Lanetix App. Check the Knowledge Base article for your BI Tool on how to build a URL that is specific for a certain report. 
6. For example, the URL for the report is most likely: https://www.your_reporting_tool.com/123
7. “123” points to a unique report. 
8. Therefore, create the Lanetix App with a URL of https://www.your_reporting_tool.com/${report_id}
9. Be sure to add the `${report_id}` with all of the symbols.
10. Go to a record in Lanetix and update the Report ID field with the unique report value from your BI Tool. This is “123” for our example. 
11. If your Account is Nike and the 'Report ID' field is Nike,  then the Lanetix App URL will become https://www.your_reporting_tool.com/Nike 

Some more details on Apps

• Apps, once created or edited, are saved automatically. There is no save button.
• If an App is created for a RT then the App will appear on every record for that RT, there are no exceptions.