Event Management for Office 365 Installation

Applies to: Event Management for Office 365/SharePoint online
Other versions: View the version for SharePoint on premise (SP2010, SP2013, SP2016, SP2019)

The following guide describes how to install the Event Management app for Office 365.

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 add-in

Step 1: Download the package

Here you can download the package: Sapiens.at.SharePoint.EVM.package.zip.
Download and unzip the package to a local folder.

The package contains two add-ins, SharePoint.Sapiens.EVM.app and sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg. Both add-ins have to be installed.

The add-ins currently contain English (US), German, French and Dutch language resources. If you prefer to have British-English or Australian-English resources use the add-ins 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
   
4. Click on App Catalog
   
   This will open the app catalog site, 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 both add-ins to the App Catalog

You can now upload both add-ins to the app catalog.

1. Open the app catalog and click on Apps for SharePoint on the left.
   
2. Click on Upload and browse to the folder that contains the add-ins, select the file SharePoint.Sapiens.EVM.app and click Open.
   
3. Click on OK
   
4. After the upload is completed successfully, you should see the app in the app catalog.
   
5. Click on Upload again, browse to the same folder, select the file sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg and click Open.
   
6. Click on OK
   

7. After the upload is completed successfully, you will be prompted to deploy the solution. Click on Deploy.
   

   Important: You should see that the add-in is Deployed.
   

   If this is not the case, please select the add-in and click on Deploy.
   

   If the add-in still does not show up as deployed and if you see a ‘Deployment failed…’ error in the column ‘App Package Error Message’, please make sure you are added to the site collection administrators in the app catalog site. Learn more
   

Step 4: Install both add-ins for users

Now you can install both add-ins on a SharePoint site. Important: Note that you should not install the add-ins on the app catalog site, use a modern team site or communication site instead.

1. Open the SharePoint site where you want to install the add-ins and click on Site Contents. We recommend that you use the add-in on a new SharePoint site.
   
2. Click on New/App.
   
3. Click on From Your Organization and click on the add-in SharePoint|sapiens Event Management
   
4. Click on Trust It
5. Click on New/App again.
   
6. Click on From Your Organization and click on the add-in SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface
   

Step 5: Verify

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

Step 6: Continue with the configuration

If both apps are successfully installed, click on the SharePoint|sapiens Event Management add-in and continue with the configuration.

Learn more about configuring the add-in in the configuration guide.

Update both add-ins

Please check the release notes for updates. To update both add-ins, download the latest version (Sapiens.at.SharePoint.EVM.package.zip), unzip the package to a local folder and upload both add-ins (SharePoint.Sapiens.EVM.app and sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg) to the app catalog (Step 3). If you upload the file sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg, you also have to click on Deploy.

If you now view ‘About the add-in’ in site contents of your SharePoint site, you can get the latest version of the add-in. Make sure you update both add-ins (SharePoint|sapiens Event Management and SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface). If the ‘Get it’ button is not enabled, the update is not necessary, the latest version has already been installed on this SharePoint site.

Important: Please also click on the ‘SharePoint|sapiens Event Management’ add-in in site contents, click on ‘Configure’ and save the settings again.

Uninstall both add-ins

If you also want to delete the lists created by the add-in, please delete all items from these lists before uninstalling the add-in. If all lists are empty, the lists, content types and columns created by the add-in will also be removed during uninstall.

To uninstall both add-ins, open site contents and remove both add-ins (SharePoint|sapiens Event Management and SharePoint|sapiens Modern User Interface).

Also open the app catalog site and delete both add-ins (SharePoint.Sapiens.EVM.app and sapiens.at.sharepoint.modernui.sppkg) in the library ‘Apps for SharePoint’.