Proper use of Applications and Extending Administration UI

Question

Hello. We have several other pieces of our platform that feed into/off of Community Server and I have a couple of questions on how best to handle management using the Telligent framework/UI. 
 1. Is it possible to create a custom application and list all of OUR plugins in a central place, even if they're extending other parts of Telligent (i.e. Tokens, Extensions, Rules, etc.)? How would you do this? Is it as simple as creating a custom application and extending it? 
 2. We have some settings that are currently having to be set in multiple areas (i.e. on each plugin or widget). Is it possible to centralize these by extending the administration UI (or within a custom application)? The settings need to be accessible to widgets, plugins and via the REST APIs.

Patrick M. · Answer

#1-> Yes you can create custom applications, but an application is not a collection of plugins. Its not an organization concept, its a collection of functionality and content. Therefore it will not put all plugins in a single place. Our administration UI is organized by function.

#2- Everything about extending the admin UI is here: https://community.telligent.com/community/10/w/developer-training/53226/extending-the-administration-ui. In fact I would familiarize yourself with most of the topics in that Wiki as it addresses what can and cannot be done in the platform and how.