Applies to Event Management & Employee Training Management

Update the Modern User Interface

Before you Read-On

The SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface app contains the UI/UX components for Employee Training Management and Event Management sites, where the ADD-INs were deployed. Don’t add this app to sites that were configured using the Microsoft 365 apps for Employee Training Management and Event Management. If you used the ADD-INs and upgraded to a Microsoft 365 app, you still need to update the Modern User Interface to get new features.

If you are not sure what to do and what you have, there is a simple rule:

• You see the Modern User Interface in the Site Content of your SharePoint site -> you need to update the Modern User Interface to get new features and releases, improvements… continue to read or jump directly to Update the App below.
• You don’t see the Modern User Interface in the Site Content of your SharePoint site -> you need to update your app (Employee Training Management or Event Management) not the Modern User Interface. Follow this link to Update the SharePoint|sapiens Apps.

The following guide describes how to install and update the SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface app. This is necessary if you added the Employee Training Management or Event Management add-in.

Prerequisites

You must be a Global or a SharePoint administrator in your Office 365 tenancy. If this is not the case, please forward these instructions to your SharePoint administrator.

Update the App

There are two sources where you can download the SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface App. When you update it to a new version, make sure you use the same source you used before.

Will updating the App cause Interruptions? No!

As long as you can avoid the common pitfalls you will not encounter interruptions. Users can continue their work while you get and enable the app.

Common Pitfalls when updating the App

Make sure you download the app-update from the same source where you had the previous version; either from our website or from AppSource. Otherwise, you will find two “identical” apps in the app catalog, and you first must delete the old one before you can enable the new one.

How do you find out from which source the app was downloaded? This is easy. Open your App Catalog and look for the SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface.

App Catalog Classic Experience, the information is located in the column Name:

• If you see the app ID starting with WA… -> The app was downloaded from the Store
• If you see sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui-> The app was added from our website

App Catalog Modern Experience, the information is located in the column Source:

• Store -> The app was downloaded from the store
• Custom -> The app was added from our website

You must enable the app after you added it to the app catalog!!! Make sure it is enabled! Otherwise, the new features and fixes that come with the update will not be available, though you can see the new version number in site contents and in the App Health web part on the “For Administrators” page.

Get the app from AppSource

Follow these steps if you originally downloaded the app from AppSource and you now want to update the app to the latest version. If you downloaded the app from our website, please go to Get the app from our website.

Get the latest version from AppSource
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200003529?tab=Overview

Step 1: Open the app catalog site

Either open your app catalog site directly, or if you don’t remember the URL, follow the steps below.

1. Sign in to Office 365 with your SharePoint Online admin account
2. Open the SharePoint Admin Center, click on Show All and then on SharePoint
   
   
3. Click on More features on the left and click on Open in the Apps section
   

Step 2: Update the app using the classic mode

1. From the Manage apps screen, click on classic experience.
   
2. Select the app SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface, click on the Files at the top left and click on Upgrade Store App.
   

Step 3: Update the app for users

Now you can update the app on your SharePoint site

1. Open the SharePoint site where the app is installed and click on Site Contents.
   
2. Click on the … menu next to the app SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface, then on Details and click on Get it to update the app on your SharePoint site.
   

Get the app from our website

Follow these steps if you originally downloaded the app from our website and you now want to update the app to the latest version. If you installed the app from the SharePoint store, please go to Get the app from the SharePoint store.

Step 1: Download the new version

Here you can always download the latest version: sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.package.zip.
Download and unzip the app to a local folder.

The app currently contains English (US), German, French and Dutch language resources. If you prefer to have British-English or Australian-English resources use the app in the en-GB or en-AU folder.

Step 2: Open your App Catalog site

Either open your app catalog site directly, or if you don’t remember the URL, follow the steps below.

1. Sign in to Office 365 with your SharePoint Online admin account
2. Open the SharePoint Admin Center, click on Show All and then on SharePoint
   
   
3. Click on More features on the left and click on Open in the Apps section
   

Step 3: Replace the app in your App Catalog

You can now upload the new version to your app catalog. This will replace the existing version.

Step 4: Update the app for users

Now you can update the app on your SharePoint site

1. Open the SharePoint site where the app is installed and click on Site Contents.
   
2. Click on the … menu next to the app SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface, then on Details and click on Get it to update the app on your SharePoint site.