Publish your Extension

Prerequisites

• A Matrix42 Cloud Account. (https://accounts.matrix42.com)
• At least "Publisher" permissions to an existing Digital Workspace Platform Extension with at least one Release available.
  (Learn more about releases or permissions)

Publish your Extension

1. Visit the Matrix42 DevOps Portal (https://extensions.matrix42.com/portal) and login with your Matrix42 Cloud Account.
2. Choose the Extension you want to publish and click on the "View" link next to the successful and failed Release counts.

You can see if you have permissions to publish Releases by the "Owner", "Manager" or "Publisher" badge which will be shown next to the actions you can perform on the Extension.

3. In the Release overview, you can see all Releases of the currently selected Extension. Choose a Release that has the "Available" status badge.

Releases are named by a number, which increments with each consecutive release of the Extension.

4. Click on the  (Publish) action on the Release. (Might be hidden in the  action menu.)
5. Now define the name and description as well as the visibility of the Extension you want to publish to the Matrix42 Extension Gallery. (https://extensions.matrix42.com)

Visibility of a published Extension in the Matrix42 Extension Gallery

When publishing a Digital Workspace Platform Extension to the Matrix42 Extension Gallery (https://extensions.matrix42.com) you will have to define who will be able to see the published version of the Extension.

Therefore, you have three options:

• For Contributors of the Extension: Only people who are added as a contributor to the Extension itself (at least "Participant" permission level) are able to see the published version in the Matrix42 Extension Gallery. This extension is additionally marked with a "Private" badge. (Learn more about permissions)
• For Members of my Vendor: All contributors of the Extension itself and those who are a member of your vendor (a.k.a company or enterprise) are able to see the published version in the Matrix42 Extension Gallery.
• For Everyone (Public): Everyone who has a Matrix42 Cloud Account (which is a requirement for accessing the Matrix42 Extension Gallery) can see the published version.

Support for published Extensions in the Matrix42 Extension Gallery

If and how your published Extension is supported by the Matrix42 AG depends on your vendors partner status:

• No Matrix42 Certified Partner Status: All of your published Extensions will be marked as a 'Community' Release and are not supported by the Matrix42 AG. This fact will be made transparent to the end-user once installing this Extension version.
• Matrix42 Certified Partner Status: You can decide to either publish your Extensions as a 'Community' Release or not (which will result in a 'Certified Partner' Release). Only Extension versions marked as 'Certified Partner' Release are supported by the Matrix42 AG. (See the support agreement of your Matrix42 Partner contract)

• Packages published by Matrix42 AG itself: Extensions which are marked as a 'Matrix42' Release are of course directly supported by the Matrix42 AG. Extensions which are published by the Matrix42 AG but are marked as a 'Community' Release are not supported by the Matrix42 AG.

All mentioned tags are visualized as shown in below table

Tag	Meaning
	Community Extension which is not supported by Matrix42
	Extension of Certified Parnter
	Extension provided by Matrix42 AG

Upgrading the published Extension visibility

If you want to upgrade the visibility of your published Extension version or upgrade from a Community Release to a Non-Community Release, you can do that by clicking on the  (Edit Visibility) action (May be hidden in the  action menu) on the published Release in the Matrix42 DevOps Portal. (https://extensions.matrix42.com/portal)