App Launcher from unauthorized user

[RupertBarrow]

Hi Chris,
I would like to use App Launcher everywhere in my universe :

• normal use for internal users the app Launcher includes AppMenuItems which are connected web apps (eg starting Github from within Salesforce)
• normal use for authorized users on Community
• but also : use by unauthorized (guest) users on a Community
• and also : on my website, in a web component which would query Salesforce via API to discover public AppMenuItems to display

The idea is to centralize all app menu management in one place, use Salesforce Identity and SSO for connected apps.

My question : can I query for AppMenuItems (via API) from a non-authorized/guest user ?

@cmortimore

[cmortimore]

What's the use-case? Generally speaking the App Launcher is shown in authenticated scenarios and only shows the items the user has access to.

[RupertBarrow]

Our client has Salesforce (internal) + Customer Community + multiple websites/webapps, some of which support authenticated users, and others are either totally public or part public and part authenticated. They are very Salesforce-centric, and are moving many of their webapps onto their Customer Community, either totally "hosted" or just for Salesforce Identity authentication. They have gone through a serious process of identifying the personas of their community at large, and are setting up perm sets, custom authorizations and connected apps to pull all this together. Now my point : on a website/webapp half public, half authenticated, they would like to have a seemless experience for visitors/users using the same hamburger menu/app launcher. In the first case (public visitor), it would list all websites/webapps they have added to the App Launcher as connected apps. In the second case (authenticated), it would also add services or apps (also added to App Launcher as Salesforce apps) available only for authenticated users. It would be nice to be able to : 1) put the list of all these websites and apps into one place : identify them as connected apps and add them to the App Launcher 2) assign these apps to profiles (personas) : for authenticated user profiles, but also for Guest profiles of Salesforce Communities 3) in Salesforce Communities, we would use the standard App Launcher menu (or custom app ;) and standard Salesforce Community login experience 4) on websites hosted off of Communities, we would use a custom Lightning Out web component to list available apps (AppMenuItem looked up via API) of the public visitor or authenticated user, and use Embedded Login to let visitors authenticate (and even self-register) What do you think ?

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[cmortimore]

At that point it's just a list of links. The difficult part will be there is no way to specify which ones are available anonymously.