Update Vitextra SharePoint Online Application

11/9/2020

This article describes how to update the existing Vitextra solution based on SharePoint Framework (SPFx).

Introduction

Vitextra provides a set of products designed for the Microsoft 365 environment and supports SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams.
Cloud products are regularly updated to provide new functionality, support for additional languages, or fix bugs. To keep Vitextra apps up to date in your environment, you need to perform update operations.

This article describes how to achieve this goal.

💡 Tip
If the new version of Vitextra application is available the notification shows up on the right top corner of the client-side web part in edit mode.

Update notification

Update notification

Download

Go to the download center and get the latest version of the product you need to update:

Vitextra Download Center

Vitextra Download Center

Extract zip-archive of the product to any folder on your PC.

Deploy

Open your SharePoint App Catalog, go to Apps for SharePoint, upload extracted .SPPKG file to the library and replace the existing one.

Uploading a new version of a product to SharePoint Online

Uploading a new version of a product to SharePoint Online

Once the new version of the package is uploaded, SharePoint shows up the confirmation dialog. Click the Deploy button to confirm the operation:

Deploy Confirmation

Deploy Confirmation

📝 Note
If a new version of an app requires API access that is not granted yet you need to approve the API access.
See API Access section in Installing Cloud-based Product article for details.

Sync to Teams (Optional)

If the application supports Microsoft Teams, you need to sync the updated solution with Teams. Select the updated application in SharePoint App Catalog and select Sync to Teams on the Ribbon:

Sync SPFx package to Microsoft Teams

Sync SPFx package to Microsoft Teams

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