Please read through this information before and while submitting your first app to the Exchange store. It explains the basic workflow and provides some additional information to make publishing your app as easy as possible.
Submitting an app
Before submitting your app, we recommend you collect the information you’ll need. Use the App submissions – required information document as a template and checklist.
To start your app submission, click on the link displayed on the Exchange storefront:
You will then be taken to a page showing some publishing information and a publisher agreement. Make sure you read this information carefully and click to accept the agreement. Then click the Continue button to move to the publish workflow. (You will be asked to login using your Autodesk Single-Sign-On account if you’re not already logged in):
Language selection Screen
- Click on the Add Native Language link select English from the list, and click the Add button.
- Note: Only English is supported at this time. The form has been designed to allow the addition of other languages in the future
- Click the Continue button
Use the Save as Draft button to save your app submission so you can continue it later. You can access your app later from the My Uploads screen – see ‘Editing an existing app’.
App Information Screen
- Enter information for your app in the textboxes on the form.
- The App Description textbox allows long descriptions (i.e. 1000 characters). This is where you should include a detailed description of your app. Customers will read this section to see if your App is worth buying/downloading. If your app is a trial version include information here on the type of trial or limitations of the trial.
- If you set a Price, the value you enter must be numeric only (i.e. don’t use $, £, ¥, €, etc.).
- If you indicate your App is a paid App you will then be asked to add a PayPal email address (but not if you’ll just be providing Free and Trial Products). You should have either a PayPal Business Account or a Premier Account. Refer to this additional documentation for PayPal account settings required for the Exchange store.
- The Publisher Contact Information is the email address we will use to send you automated email notifications when your app is downloaded, and where we will contact you for any additional information we need while reviewing your app.
- The Publisher Contact Information and PayPal Email for Payments apply to all apps you publish. If you edit this in one app, it will change for all of them.
- Click Continue to proceed.
File Uploading Screen
- To upload your app files, click the Choose File button and select your file in the dialog that appears. Then click the Upload button.
- Your App File is your installer, your zipped app files, or PDF files.
- If we have already provided you with an MSI installer file for your app, please upload the MSI directly – do not zip it first.
- Please also upload PDF files unzipped.
- Your App Logo is the icon displayed on the store to represent your app.
- We recommend 80x80 pixels for your Logo.
- If you’re looking for a free icon editing tool, then you might consider GIMP, Paint.NET or something similar.
- Add as many App Screenshots as you wish. Once you’ve uploaded each image, a text box will appear in which you should enter the text that will accompany the screenshot.
- Click Continue to proceed.
Compatibility Screen
- Click on the ‘down arrow’ symbols to extend a product family list.
- Select all the Autodesk products your app is compatible with.
- If a product isn’t listed here, then it means that it is not supported by the store at this time. Please contact us for information on unlisted products you’re interested in.
- Marking your app as compatible with a product means that:
- You have tested your app with that product
- You are able to support customers using your app with that product.
- AutoCAD means ‘vanilla’ AutoCAD only. It does not include an AutoCAD vertical running its ‘vanilla’ profile.
- Click Continue to proceed.
Categories Screen
- A list of Categories will be displayed for each Product you selected on the Compatibility Screen.
- Select up to 4 the categories that apply to your application for each product it is compatible with, and add a custom category if needed.
- Don’t spam customers by selecting Categories that are not relevant to your app.
- Click Continue to proceed.
Documentation Screen
- Enter the information for your app that we can use to create a standard format quick start helpfile. This will be shipped with your app and displayed on the store (not yet implemented).
- If you’re using our standard installer template (i.e. we are creating the installer for you) then just write ‘standard text’ in the Installation/Uninstallation textbox, and we’ll substitute the correct text for you when we review your app.
- In the Author/Company Information textbox, please include details of how a customer can contact you for support (e.g. email this email address, or visit this webpage).
- Click Continue to proceed.
App Summary screen
- This is a summary of the information you entered about your app.
- Click the Preview Button to open a new browser tab showing how your app will look in the store.
- Use the Back button to go back through the workflow to change any information that you don’t like in the Preview.
- Click the Submit button if you’re happy with the Preview.
- You should be contacted by an app reviewer within two weeks of submitting your app. Please email [email protected] if you have not heard from us within that time.
Editing an existing app
- Go to http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/MyUploads.
- You will then be prompted to log in using your Autodesk Single Sign On account.
- To edit, use edit button corresponding to your application as shown below.
- If the app you wish to edit is published, then you will have to click the unpublish button before the edit button appears. This will remove your published app from the store until your edited app is republished by our store manager.
- When you start editing an existing app, you simply follow the same workflow as creating a new app, except the information you previously entered is now displayed.
More information
The ADN team is here to help you be a successful publisher on Autodesk Exchange store. We’ll do whatever we can do to help you. You are welcome to email [email protected] if you have any further questions after reviewing these guidelines and the other documentation on www.autodesk.com/developapps.
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