Application Manager

1 Open it

Click Applications in the top menu and choose Application Manager. Which buttons you see depends on your licence and on the rights of your security role (see Who can do what).

Application Manager Only The Application Manager Only edition splits this page into four menu items — Apps, Robopack, Flows and Radar — each with its own guide. They are the same four views; see The four views.

2 Layout at a glance

The page title is Application Manager. The applications are shown as a gallery of cards; the two small icons next to the title switch between the gallery and a list (a grid with selectable columns).

Application Manager with the Create, N Apps Detected, Patch Flows and Export buttons and a gallery of applications — The **Application Manager**. The left panel has the search box with a filter (funnel), and the buttons **Create**, **N Apps Detected**, **Patch Flows** and **Export**.

Cards, filters, the application detail with its tabs, replace, retire, migrate and deploy work exactly as described in the Apps guide. One cue on the cards is specific to Robopack: the Robopack logo, whose tooltip says Imported from Robopack, marks applications that were created by a download.

3 Create

The Create button opens Create New, where you choose what to create.

Create New chooser with Create Application, Create Win32 App and Create Patch Flow — The **Create New** chooser.

Choice	What it does
Create Application	Opens the Create Application wizard and imports a new application into SCCM. Not shown when SoftwareCentral runs Intune only. See Create an app.
Create Win32 App	Opens the Create Intune Application wizard and imports a new application into Intune.
Create Patch Flow	Changes the view to the Robopack catalogue, titled Create Patch Flow, where an automated patch flow can be created; a flow can import to both SCCM and Intune at the same time. Click an application to start the download and import wizard. Return goes back.

Create Patch Flow view: the Robopack catalogue inside the Application Manager — The **Create Patch Flow** view — the same catalogue as the Robopack view, with **Patch Flows**, **Return** and **Export** on the left.

4 Patch Flows

The Patch Flows button changes the view to the Patch Flow Manager: the applications that Robopack has downloaded for you, with the status of every job. Click a card to open the same detail as in Flows — Quick View, Install Overview, the Patch Flow tab with Edit, Disable and Delete, the status log — and the Delete data tab for clean-up.

Patch Flow Manager in the Application Manager with Return, Create Patch Flow and Export on the left — The **Patch Flow Manager**. The left panel now has **Return** (to the applications), **Create Patch Flow** and **Export**.

Unlike the Flows view of Application Manager Only, this list also contains applications that were downloaded without a patch flow. The filter lets you narrow it:

Filter pop-up of the Patch Flow Manager with Have Patch Flow and Have Update — The filter of the Patch Flow Manager.

Filter	Shows only…
Have Patch Flow	Applications where a patch flow is configured.
Have Update	Applications where a new version is available.

The same list as Flows Tick Have Patch Flow and the manager lists the same applications as the Flows view of Application Manager Only. To make that the starting point, tick Default only show Patch Flows (see Robopack settings).

5 Detected apps and Export

Button	What it does
N Apps Detected	Opens Radar, with the number of applications currently detected. Only available when application detection is switched on in Robopack settings.
Export	Saves the list you are looking at as a CSV file named Application Manager followed by the date and time. All columns are included, except the icon and the check box column.

6 The four views

The same four views exist in both editions. Only where you click is different.

Application Manager Only	Application Manager (this page)	Guide
Apps	The page itself, titled Application Manager	Apps guide
Robopack	Create › Create Patch Flow (title Create Patch Flow)	Robopack guide
Flows	Patch Flows (title Patch Flow Manager)	Flows guide
Radar	N Apps Detected (title Detected Application)	Radar guide

What is different in the full edition The download wizard shows the Replace Settings (software groups, application groups, the shop, enrolment status pages) that only exist in the full edition, and the Apps view has two more filters, Have License and Have Shop Orders.

7 Best practice

Use the Have Update filter to find applications with a newer version. The filter's tooltip reads See Applications where a new version is available.
Look for the Robopack logo on a card. Its tooltip, Imported from Robopack, shows that the application was created by a download.

8 Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	What to do
“No applications match your criteria”	The search values or filters match no application.	Click the × on a search value, remove a filter, or change the words.