Creating a New App

To initiate work on a new project on the Vahana portal, you must create a new application. On the Vahana portal’s dashboard, this new application works as a project identifier and helps you manage multiple project-related activities smartly.

For instance:- If you want to develop a new web-based application for HDFC customers, you can provide the name of the new application, HDFC Customer Application. Similarly, if you plan to design an application for ICICI bank’s customer, you will create a new application, ICICI Customer Application.

For every new project, you will create a new application on the Vahana portal.

After you successfully create an application, it allows you to access all Vahana cloud-integrated modules. You can create a new application as follows:

To create a new application:

1. On the Vahana portal’s dashboard, see the left navigation panel.
2. Put your mouse pointer on the left navigation panel to expand the panel.

3. In the panel, under My Vahana, click Applications, and the Applications page opens.

4. On the Applications page, click Create App to display the Create Application dialog box.
5. On the Create Application dialog box, perform the functions as follows:

Box/List	Description
Upload or Choose Icon	Click the plus icon () to upload the image for the application’s icon or select one of the available icons ().
Type	Click this list and then select one of the following: 1. Mobile:- In the list, select it if you want to design a mobile app. 2. Web:- In the list, select it if you want to design a web application.
Name	In this box, enter the application’s name (for example, MyFirstApp).
Tags	In this box, enter an alphanumeric value (for example, first, app, and first_app1). This value is treated as a tag or identifier that helps you search for the current application in a group of multiple applications.
Description	In this box, enter the reason to create the current application.
Connect Middleware	After you click Connect Middleware, the Middleware portal’s login page opens. You can log on to the middleware portal to connect your app to the middleware. Note:- To know more about how to connect your application to the middleware, go to Getting Started with Vahana>Applications, and then see the heading section: Create an App.

6. After you enter the application’s details in the Create Application dialog box, click Create to create a new application.

After you create a new application, its dashboard opens. In the application dashboard, you can perform several functions, as follows:

• Access vFlow module to design a web application
• Access vDesigner module to design a mobile app
• Access vConnect module to configure APIs
• Access Data Modeler module to define JSON object
• Access IT Ops module to monitor services’ performance, and others

Accessing vFlow Modules

As described in the last section, after you create an application, you can access several modules to perform the desired functions. If you want to design a web-based application, you need to access the vFlow module. You can access the vFlow module as follows:

To access the vFlow module:

1. On the Vahana portal’s dashboard, see the Recent Applications area.
2. In the Recent Applications area, find the application (for example, MyFirstApp) that you have created.

Note:- If you do not find the application in the Recent Applications area, click View app apps to search and find the application.

3. After you find the application, click it to display the Dashboard page.

4. On the Dashboard page, see Go to vFlow in the top panel.
5. Click Go to vFlow to display the vFlow module’s home page.