Build a custom app

You will assemble a small custom app: a single screen with a few blocks over the data you have been building. By the end you have a focused tool that shows just what a job needs. This uses the category you built and, if you did it, the purchasing from Automate with a wire.

Add a few blocks

The builder isn't in the main nav, so this is the door:

1. Open Configuration → Apps, in the Build section, and hit New app.
2. Add a page.
3. Drop in blocks that answer one question well:
   • Stat: a count or a sum (how many parts are low).
   • View: embeds a saved view, like the "what's low" list from the first tutorial.
   • Form: creates a record showing only a few fields, so intake is three boxes instead of twenty.
   • Action: a button that runs an action, with your label on it.
4. Preview as you go. That is a working dashboard-and-intake screen over your data.

Apps are pages of blocks

A custom app is a set of pages, and a page is a stack of blocks. Blocks stay structured, which is what keeps a built app safe to render, and the editor previews them live as you compose. You are not writing a layout from scratch. You are picking pieces and stacking them.

Hand it to someone (optional)

An app only sees the fields you give it, so you can hand a helper a tool over part of your workspace without exposing the rest. Pair it with People & permissions and a member lands straight in the app with only the abilities you granted.

Describe it instead

You do not have to place every block by hand. The AI builder can generate an app from a description ("a picking screen: the low-stock list and a button to reorder"), which the kernel validates before you apply it. Build one way, then adjust it the other.

You now have

A custom app over your data. Last step: put a view on a screen anyone can see, no login.