Open, Edit, and Activate Your App

Know exactly what activation changes before you press it, so your first live app is one you've already read and tested.

Your imported app opens in the App Builder, the same place you'd build one from scratch — as a stack of blocks: questions it asks, documents it picks up, instructions it sends the AI, and a final block that produces the result.

Read it before you change anything. Every instruction the app gives the AI is visible here, and if you're answerable for what it produces, read them at least once.

Try it yourself

1

Edit a prompt

Open an AI block and add your firm's context, jurisdiction, or house style — it's just text, so edit it like anything else.
2

Test it end to end

Run the app on a document you know well, then on something awkward — badly scanned, unusually long, or missing a section — to see what your people will actually experience.
3

Activate it

Press Activate in the App Builder; the label switches to Active after a brief delay, and your admin view will match.

What to know before you edit

Test Mode vs. Active Mode

Test mode watermarks generated documents and redirects emails to you; activating removes both, so confirm you're ready before pressing it.

What's Safe to Edit

Prompt wording, field labels, and formatting are safe to change anytime; reordering blocks can break the app later, so leave block order alone until you're comfortable.

Background Apps Run Differently

Activation is the only on switch for a background app, and you must deactivate it before changing what starts it, or your edit gets reverted.

See the full lesson for additional detail, related help-article links, and the complete administrator tips not captured above.

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