Style Guide

To make a consistent appearance, your application must comply with the requirements stated in the Operator Cockpit. Further information and details of the style guide and specifications can be found in the Operator Cockpit documentation.  The Operator Cockpit sets the specifications and requirements for the following areas:

Application Icon and display name

Application Icon

Your application icon is the first way to communicate the benefits of your application. Within MindSphere your application requires input from you in order to create a unique icon for you application. Your registered company name must be attached to the application icon to clearly indicate that you are the provider of the application. The design of your application icon must be distinctively different from the design of icons used by Alibaba Cloud as part of the Services (e.g. Asset Manager, Fleet Manager).

Display name

Every application must have a unique display name. The name of the application is important so that potential customers have a clear understanding of what your application offers.

Application user interface

When you make your application available via a MindSphere URL to subscribers of the MindAccess IoT Value Plan, your application web frontend must provide the following elements:

  • MindSphere OS Bar must be integrated by code snipped into your application. MindSphere OS Bar provides a User with essential core functions like Home-Button. For information how to integrate MindSphere OS Bar please refer to Developer Documentation.

  • a control with your company name, telephone number or e-mail address that describes how to receive service and support for your application. For your application, this control is not allowed to refer to Alibaba Cloud nor to Siemens.

When you make available your self-hosted application via a non-MindSphere URL to 3rd parties, your application web frontend must not

  • integrate the MindSphere OS Bar or any part of it.

  • refer to Alibaba Cloud nor Siemens by any means. This comprises but is not limited to design and content.

Branding

  • You must not use designations relating to Siemens, such as “Siemens”, “Si”, any similar reference to the designation “Siemens”, including but not limited to SIMATIC, SINUMERIK, SINALYTICS, and any abbreviations thereof, logos relating to Siemens or any word or logo confusingly similar thereto except as expressly provided for herein.

  • You must not use the name of your solution or any of your trademarks or trade names in direct or indirect combination with or adjacent to any Siemens product or otherwise refer thereto except as expressly provided for herein.

  • You are only entitled to use trademarks or trade names of Siemens upon our prior separate written consent, as provided below in this Guide, or as otherwise provided upon your individual request. Trademarks and trade names of Siemens include without limitation MindSphere, MindConnect, MindApps, MindAccess, MindServices and other designations beginning with “Mind”.

  • By making your mobile native application available to users of a MindAccess IoT Value Plan via mobile app stores, you are only entitled to reference MindSphere to the extend required to describe the functionality of your mobile native application with its corresponding backend application.

  • You must not use designations relating to Alibaba Cloud, such as "Alibaba", "Alibaba Cloud", "Ali", any similar reference to the designation "Alibaba Cloud", and any abbreviations thereof, logos relating to Alibaba Cloud or any word or logo confusingly similar thereto except as expressly provided for herein.

  • You must not use the name of your solution or any of your trademarks or trade names in direct or indirect combination with or adjacent to any Alibaba Cloud product or otherwise refer thereto except as expressly provided for herein.

  • You are only entitled to use trademarks or trade names of Alibaba Cloud upon our prior separate written consent, as provided below in this Guide, or as otherwise provided upon your individual request.