Add a Marketplace app

The Library is the place where all your applications are stored. In your Library you can have either apps you or your company team members have manually uploaded or apps you acquired through Barbara Marketplace.

In this guide you will learn how to download a Marketplace app to your Library so it can be later deployed to your Edge Nodes.

Accessing Barbara Marketplace

Barbara Marketplace is a repository where Barbara platform users can find apps and services that will help them to accelerate the development and deployment of their use cases in the Edge

Barbara Marketplace

1. If you already have a user account in the Barbara platform you just have to browse to https://market.barbaraiot.com and press the login button located in the upper right corner. (If you were already logged in the platform, you will see your user name in that position instead of the login button)

Login Marketplace

1. You will be redirected to the Barbara platform login page where you have to input your credentials.

Barbara platform login page

1. Once logged in, you can browse the Marketplace and its categories to search for the app you want to acquire.

Downloading an application

4. When you find in the grid the app you want to download, click on it to enter into the app's details view.

Example of an app details view

5. Click in the "Add to Library" button in the upper right corner

Add to Library button

1. A pop-up window will show where you will be able to read the terms and conditions, as well as the price of the app. If at this point you don't want to resume with the download process, just click "Close" in the lower right corner. If you decide to proceed, then click the "Add to Library" button.

Pop-up with Terms & Conditions

Once added to your Library you will see the "Add to Library" button has changed into a "Already in Library" non-clickable button; that means the app has successfully been downloaded to your Library

App already in Library

Checking the app in your Library

At this point the app has been downloaded to your Library; let's see how to check this.

7. Browse to Barbara Panel, your platform management dashboard, by directly typing the address https://panel.barbara.tech in your browser or by clicking in the grid icon located in the upper right corner of Barbara Marketplace screen, next to your user name and select "Panel"

Grid menu with Barbara Panel switching option

8. Once in Panel, select the "Library" view; you will see the app in the list.

Library view in Barbara Panel