Marketplace validation

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Overview

Marketplace validation is the section for partners publishing Business Central extensions on AppSource. It combines the technical requirements an extension must meet with telemetry for understanding validation results, and with marketing guidance for the app’s listing.

Start with the Technical validation checklist, which lists the mandatory requirements and explains how validation is done, including self-validation with BcContainerHelper and AppSourceCop. The Technical validation FAQ covers common questions on app identity, code-signing, names and affixes, Application Insights usage, support channels and app previews.

Two telemetry pages help when validation fails. One describes submission validation traces sent to Application Insights, with validation phases, diagnostic events and KQL samples. The other covers monitoring breaking-changes validation against upcoming Business Central releases. Two further pages give best practices for sales landing pages and marketing videos.

Key points

• The technical validation checklist lists mandatory requirements before submission, including manifest validation, affix registration, digital code signing, permission sets and extension publishing.
• Partners can self-validate with BcContainerHelper and AppSourceCop analysis before submitting.
• Submission validation traces go to Application Insights and include AL compiler diagnostics, AppSourceCop analyzer results and diagnostic codes, with KQL samples for analysis.
• The submission trace telemetry guide references 2021 release wave 1 and version 18.4.
• Breaking-changes validation telemetry shows when an AppSource app fails validation against upcoming Business Central releases.
• The FAQ covers app identity, code-signing, names and affixes, Azure Application Insights usage, Business Central offers, support channels and app previews.
• The landing page guide covers layout, headline copy, pain-based messaging, benefits, testimonials, video demos and calls to action.
• The video guide describes why, how and what videos plus customer testimony, with structure and persona targeting.

Learn pages

• Analyzing Marketplace app breaking changes validation telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for breaking changes validation of Marketplace apps in Business Central.
• Analyzing Marketplace submission validation trace telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for publishing apps to Marketplace from Partner Center.
• How to create an effective sales landing page: Guideline on creating an effective Sales Landing page for your app
• How to make compelling videos: How to make compelling videos to market your app
• Marketing Validation Checklist: The marketing checklist for validation of Business Central apps
• Technical validation checklist: Describes the steps you must go through to successfully submit your app to Marketplace using AppSourceCop for Business Central.
• Technical validation FAQ: Describes the most common questions when submitting your app to Marketplace for Business Central.

Videos, posts and code changes

Linked by a Haiku matcher with a grounding quote from the item’s summary (link/topics.ts); machine-generated.

• #9407 Add Microsoft apps view to AppSource product list (Fix ADO #642217) (code change): “A new predefined view called “Microsoft apps” was added to the AppSource Product List page”
• #142 Add AL-focused AppSource validation guidance (code change): “Six community AppSource knowledge articles with paired good and bad AL samples”
• Dynamics 365 Business Central: checking for breaking changes on obsoleted, internal and OnPrem objects. (community post): “AppSourceCop configuration settings validateObsoleteSymbols, validateInternalSymbols, validateOnPremSymbols”

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