HQ apps on your phone

The Apps row on the HQ mobile home

The HQ mobile home is not a read-only mirror of the web product, and the Apps row is the reason. Open HQ on your phone and the home page leads with the network hero tiles; the second row, titled Apps, carries your analyst apps as album-cover tiles, the app's name, its outcome in one line, a small breathing "Live" dot, and a Preview control. Tapping a tile opens the app full screen on the phone canvas, the same three-screen card the web shows: what you get, one run button, and the finding.

The row shows only the apps your kind of network actually has. Network Review and Program Negotiation appear for every network. Franchisee Health belongs to association networks, whose home section is the Member Directory, and Recruitment Story belongs to franchise networks, whose home section is Recruiting. A franchise HQ therefore sees Network Review, Program Negotiation, and Recruitment Story; an association sees Network Review, Franchisee Health, and Program Negotiation. This mirrors the same section gating the Sections sheet applies, so you are never shown an app whose home page your network does not have.

For the rest of the phone surface around this row, the hero, the flat sections beneath, the tab bar, and the Sections sheet, see the HQ mobile home.

Running an app from the phone

Runs on mobile are the real thing, not a preview of the web. Press the run button and the card switches to the result immediately, reading "Working through it. This usually takes a minute or two," with the note that "You can close this. The result will be waiting here when you come back." The specialist does its work server-side; the finding lands in the card on your phone when it finishes, usually within a minute or two. There is no cost prompt at any point, because HQ runs are free.

Everything a finding supports on the web works on the phone too:

• Your previous runs sits at the top of the start screen once you have any.
• Past analyses appears as a tab after your first result, newest first, pinned results on top.
• Pin and Pinned work from the result's header.
• Export as PDF downloads the same document the web export produces, so you can share a finding from wherever you read it.

A finding you ran from your desk on Tuesday is waiting in the same history when you open the app on your phone on Wednesday, and the reverse. There is one store of results per app, keyed to your network, whatever screen you happen to be holding.

Where the apps sit in the phone's flow

The Apps row rides on the home tab, which the tab bar labels Network, so your apps are one tap from anywhere in HQ mobile. The deck opens as an overlay above whatever you were reading, and closing it returns you to the page underneath, the same peek-under-glass behavior every overlay on the platform uses. Because results persist, the practical phone pattern is asynchronous: start a run while you wait for a meeting to begin, put the phone away, and read the finding when you next pick it up.

Best-practice example

You are traveling on the day of your monthly leadership call. From the back of a cab you open HQ on your phone, tap Network Review in the Apps row, and run it. By the time you are through security the finding is in the card: spread widening, two locations named. You pin it and export the PDF, and on the call an hour later you are reading from the same finding your desk would have shown you.

Related articles

• HQ Apps overview
• The HQ mobile home
• Keeping, reopening, and exporting HQ findings
• What an HQ app can and cannot read

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