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COUNSELLING.NETWORK FOR SHAREPOINT

Install Counselling.Network in SharePoint Online

An administrator's guide to store installation, deployment scope, connectivity and handing the web part over to your content team.

Store listing not yet available. These steps describe the installation route once Microsoft approves and publishes the app. Publisher-account verification alone does not make it available. Contact support@counselling.network for pilot arrangements.

Before you start

You need SharePoint Online, a modern target page and an administrator authorised to approve apps. Use your organisation's normal app review and change process. This is a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solution, not a classic SharePoint Add-in or a Windows desktop Store app.

Assign a company subscription owner and a site content owner. The planned company subscription covers one named Microsoft 365 tenant; sessions and Microsoft 365 licensing are separate.

Install from the SharePoint Store once available

  1. Sign in to the SharePoint admin centre with your authorised work account. Open More features, then Apps, to reach the Apps site.
  2. Open the SharePoint Store and find Counselling.Network. Verify the publisher, description and permissions against the official listing before adding it.
  3. Add the app to your organisation and review the deployment options. Choose the availability scope appropriate to your change plan; start with a pilot site.
  4. On the Apps site's Manage apps page, confirm the app is enabled. Depending on deployment scope, the site owner may need to add it through the site's app catalogue/My apps view.
  5. Open a modern page in the pilot site. Confirm Counselling.Network appears in the web-part picker, add it, configure it and publish.

Store access and app requests depend on tenant policy. If a site owner cannot add an app, use your administrator approval process. Microsoft documents managing apps through the Apps site and adding apps to sites; labels can change over time.

Pilot package installation

If Counselling.Network provides an approved pilot package, upload the supplied .sppkg to the Apps site, review and enable it, and make it available to your test site. Do not substitute a package from an unverified source. This route does not imply store certification.

Connectivity and permissions

The current release requests public directory data from https://counselling.network over HTTPS. It does not request Microsoft Graph permissions or send SharePoint staff names, emails or user IDs in these requests. It uses no browser API secret.

Permit the service and required public image resources through your normal network review. Some article images use approved external image hosting. Profile, all-results, article and social links open external pages in a new tab. Review those destinations under your own policy.

Normal server and infrastructure logs can still process IP addresses and request information. Do not describe the integration as fully anonymous. Any future licence-authentication requirements will need an updated deployment and privacy review.

Validate the deployment

  • Type a town prefix, select a suggestion and confirm results appear on the page.
  • Test remote-only search without a town and verify full-profile and all-results links.
  • Check both the article-card and compact-link settings.
  • Test with a normal staff reader, keyboard navigation and a narrow viewport.
  • Confirm errors offer the public directory fallback and do not expose technical or personal details.

Troubleshooting

The web part is missing

Check the app is enabled, the site has access under your chosen scope and the page is modern. A deployment may require site-level addition before the picker shows the web part.

Search cannot connect

Confirm the configured API origin is https://counselling.network with no extra path. Check network filtering and service availability. Users can use the directory fallback while the issue is investigated.

Search is temporarily rate limited

Staff sharing an outbound IP may share rate limits. Avoid repeated retries; contact support if normal company use repeatedly triggers this response.

Articles or prices are missing

Prices depend on published practitioner settings. Articles require both relevant display settings and an available feed; the Explore link remains as a fallback. Missing image content can use a placeholder.

Handover, updates and removal

Give the content owner the wellbeing-page guide and confirm who owns subscription administration. Record the installed version and target sites. Review updates through your normal app lifecycle and repeat the pilot checks before broad rollout.

To withdraw the page experience, remove the web part and republish the page. Organisation-wide app removal should follow your change process after checking other pages using it. Removing an app does not itself cancel a paid subscription.

Product support: support@counselling.network. Include the package version and redacted error details; do not send staff search histories, health information, credentials or tokens.