Decide how you want to structure your salesforce.com organizations. All your app and service listings must be published under a single salesforce.com organization, known as your master AppExchange Publishing Organization (APO). The APO, which in most cases is the same organization you use to manage your licenses, is where you'll manage all your AppExchange publishing. It provides the profile details that customers see when browsing your listings. The Developer Edition organizations where you create and upload your app should be linked to the APO as child organizations. This lets you log into the APO to manage all the packages (apps) and trial templates (sample versions of your app) that your listings provide regardless of which organization you used to create the apps.
As a salesforce.com partner, you have one APO and as many linked organizations as you need. We recommend using the same organization as your APO and your License Management Organization (LMO). This consolidation lets you keep track of the leads your listing generates as well as the customers who install your app in one place.
The linked organization list provides the following information.
Field | Description |
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Organization | The linked organization's name |
ID | The linked organization's ID |
Salesforce Edition | The linked organization's edition |
Packages | The number of packages uploaded from the linked organization |
Trial Templates | The number of trial templates uploaded from the linked organization |
Linked On | The date the organization was linked to the APO. |