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Overview of Here™ Core UI Components

Here™ Core UI Components provide a unified space for work, powered by a set of tools designed to help your firm increase productivity and deliver exceptional employee experiences.

Key components of Here Core UI include a keyboard-driven digital assistant for app discovery and search; a browser for displaying content with complex layouts and shared context; and a rich, actionable notification center, experiences that accelerate time to market, and easy-to-use APIs for hyper-customization.

Here Core UI Components let your users create and manage their own workspaces that include the apps, workflows and content they need to get their jobs done. Your developers implement the APIs of the Workspace SDK and the Workspace Platform SDK packages to control access to the applications and content your users need. You can provide as much or as little user control as your environment requires.

Key components​

The components bundled in Here Core UI Components are listed below. You can choose which ones to enable and integrate with via a Here™ Core UI platform.

  • Home: The "nerve center" of Here Core UI, Home provides a text box interface for searching, issuing commands, and launching applications and content. A Here Core UI platform can provide commands and support searches, to give end-users quick access to its content.

  • Browser: Providing more focus and control than a general-purpose web browser, Here™ Core UI Browser supports creating, saving and reloading complex layouts of interconnected apps and content views.

In Here Core UI Components v17.2 or later, translated strings for Browser UI elements are available. See Provide localized strings in Here™ Core UI Components.

  • Store: You can provide users with the ability to peruse and select apps and content to use within your Here Core UI platform, similar to services for mobile phone apps or add-ons for complex software. You can define a landing page and footer for a branded experience, list items available, provide details about them, and launch what the user has selected. Refer to Provide storefront content for details.

  • Dock: In contrast to the keyboard-driven interface of Home, Dock is a small icon toolbar that enables quick access to Here™ Core UI features via a mouse.

  • Notification Center: Help end-users stay up to date with events and the latest information via desktop alerts and a central location for notifications from Here apps. When users interact with a notification, the app that generated it receives and can respond to interaction events.

In Here Core UI Components v10 or later, if you register multiple Here Core UI platforms, the same platform is displayed across all registered Here Core UI components: Home, Store, and Dock. Notification Center supports this feature differently. See Multiple platforms in Notification Center for details.

In Here Core UI Components v19.1 or later, Windows users can group the taskbar icons for Here Core UI components for a single platform. This is a Windows setting that was previously not supported. See Control taskbar icon display for details.

How it works​

Get started with Here Core UI Components​

Here™ offers a Workspace Starter repository in GitHub, which contain several example projects demonstrating different use cases for Here Core UI Components. You can use one of these as a starting point or example for your own implementation.

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