Event Management for Office 365 Modern User Interface Installation

Applies to: Event Management for Office 365/SharePoint online

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Important: The following guide describes how to install the Modern User Interface app. This is necessary if you already installed the Event Management app and you want to use the modern SharePoint experience. If you have not yet installed the Event Management app, please follow the Installation Guide.

In this article:

Prerequisites

You are 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.

Install the app

Step 1: Download the app

Here you can download the app: 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/Create an App Catalog site

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
   
   This will open the Manage apps screen. Continue with Step 3: Add the app to the App Catalog. If you don’t see the Manage apps screen, continue with the next step.

4. Click on App Catalog
   If you see the Manage apps screen instead of this screen, skip the next steps and continue with Step 3: Add the app to the App Catalog.
   This will open the app catalog site/manage apps screen, in case you already have one. If not, please continue with 5.

5. Select Create a new app catalog site, and then click OK.
   

6. On the Create App Catalog Site Collection page, enter the required information, and then click OK.
   

Note: It can take a few minutes to create the app catalog site. Once the app catalog site is created, you can open it if you click on the App Catalog link again.

Step 3: Add the app to the App Catalog

You can now upload the app to the app catalog.

1. Open the app catalog and click on Upload.
   
2. Browse to the folder that contains the app, select the file sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg and click Open.
   

3. After the upload is completed successfully, you will be prompted to enable the app. Click on Enable App.
   

4. Now you’ll see a dialog to go to the API access page. This is optional, the app works fine if you don’t approve the additional APIs. The APIs only need to be approved if you want users to be able to create Team Meetings directly in SharePoint or if users should be able to enroll teams, distribution lists or other groups. Click on Go to API access page to approve the APIs or click on I’ll do it later.
   

5. If you want to approve the APIs now, select the API and click on Approve.
   

Step 4: Install the app for users

Now you can install the app in a SharePoint site

1. Open the SharePoint site where you want to install the app and click on Site Contents.
   
2. Click on New/App.
   
3. Click on From Your Organization and click on the app SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface
   

Step 5: Verify

In Site Contents you should see two app installed: SharePoint|sapiens Event Management and SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface.

Update the app

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.

1. Open the app catalog and click on Upload.
   
2. Browse to the folder that contains the new version of the app, select the file sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg and click Open.
   
3. Click on Replace to replace the previous version.
   

4. After the upload is completed successfully, you will be prompted to enable the app. Click on Enable App.
   

5. Now you’ll see a dialog to go to the API access page. This is optional, the app works fine if you don’t approve the additional APIs. The APIs only need to be approved if you want users to be able to create Team Meetings directly in SharePoint or if users should be able to enroll teams, distribution lists or other groups. Click on Go to API access page to approve the APIs or click on I’ll do it later.
   

6. If you want to approve the APIs now, select the API and click on Approve.
   

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.
   

Get the app from the SharePoint store

Follow these steps if you originally downloaded the app from the SharePoint store 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.

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.