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How to install Sintel BI

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Sintel BI is available as an Add-in for Microsoft 365 from AppSource and in order to use it, you must add it into your Microsoft 365 tenant.

It can be added in 2 ways:

  • Option 1 A SharePoint Administrator installs Sintel BI on behalf of their organisation
  • Option 2 A SharePoint site owner requests the app to be installed on their specific site

Option 1 – A SharePoint Administrator Installs the App

A SharePoint Administrator can install Sintel BI on behalf of the entire organisation, this is a simple 1-step process whereby the SharePoint Administrator just adds the app from AppSource.

Important: You must have access to the SharePoint Admin Center and be able to add apps to your Microsoft 365 tenant.

Prerequisites

If you want to add Sintel BI but don’t have admins access to your Microsoft 365 tenant then you simply need to contact the person or group that does have this access. It’s often the case that your Microsoft 365 tenant is managed by an internal IT team or external company. If this is the case simply share the link to this page with them and ask them to contact us if they have any questions.

 

Add the app to the tenant

  1. Open the SharePoint Admin Center
    https://YourTenantName-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx#/home
  2. Click “More features“
  3. Under the Apps section click on “Open“
  4. Click on the “App Catalog”
  5. Within the AppCatalog click on “SharePoint Store” from the left menu
  6. Search for Sintel and choose “Sintel BI“
  7. Add it by clicking “Add to app catalog“
  8. Once the app is uploaded you will be prompted to deploy it, when doing so we recommend choosing “Enable this app and add it to all sites”. This does not add the app into the site contents of every site, it merely makes it available to be added to any site. If you do not choose “Enable this app and add it to all sites” then you will have to manually add the app into each site you wish to use it in.
Sintel BI has now been added to your tenant app catalog and can be added to any site in your tenant.

 

Option 2 – A SharePoint site owner requests the app

A SharePoint site owner user can request the Sintel BI app be added to their site and once the request is approved by a SharePoint Administrator the site owner can add the app to their site. This is a 2-step process whereby a site owner first requests the app and then the SharePoint Administrator adds the app from AppSource.

Step 1 – A site owner requests the app

  1. The Site owner opens their site
  2. Click on “New->App” or click on “Settings->Add an app“
  3. Click “From SharePoint Store“
  4. Search for Sintel and choose “Sintel BI“
  5. Click “Request“, enter a reason, and click “Send request“
  6. The site owner will receive a message that the request has been sent

Step 2 – The SharePoint Administrator approves the request

  1. The SharePoint Administrator opens the SharePoint Admin Center
    https://YourTenantName-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx#/home
  2. Click “More features” from the left menu
  3. Under the Apps section click on “Open“
  4. Click on the “App Catalog” link
  5. Click “App Requests” on the left or the “Manage requests of apps” tile on the right
  6. On the top you a message may appear:

A newer version of this page is now available. Try the new App requests page. Click the “Try the new App requests page”

  1. Select the Sintel BI app, enter an optional comment, and then click “Approve and add this app“
  2. Click “Confirm” on the Confirm data access screen to add the app to the app catalog and enable site owners to add it to their sites.

 

Sintel BI has now been added to your tenant app catalog and can be added to any site in your tenant.

 

Replace a previous version of Sintel BI

If you were using a previous version of Sintel BI (any version installed prior to March 22 2022) you must first remove it before adding the new version. If you follow the 2-step procedure outlined below all your existing configurations will be preserved as part of the update process.

Step 1 – Remove the existing version of the app

  1. Open the SharePoint Admin Center
    https://YourTenantName-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx#/home
  2. Click “More features” from the left menu
  3. Under the Apps section click on “Open“
  4. Click on the “App Catalog” link
  5. Click on the link “Apps for SharePoint” on the left menu or the “Distribute apps for SharePoint” tile
  6. Select the existing Sintel BI app and delete it

 

If you installed a previous version of Sintel BI in a site collection app catalog instead of a tenant app catalog you will need to manually remove the app in every individual site collection app catalog in which it was added.

 

Step 2 – Add the new app

  1. Within the tenant App Catalog click on “SharePoint Store“
  2. Search for Sintel and choose “Sintel BI“
  3. Add it by clicking “Add to app catalog“
  4. Once the app has been added to the tenant App Catalog it can be added to any SharePoint site by a site owner.

 

If an old version of the app was installed on any SharePoint site, when the site owner opens that site they will receive a prompt that a new version is available and they can click on “Get it” to upgrade to the latest version.

 

Next Article – How to configure Sintel BI
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