---
title: "Creating a shareable quick launch button"
description: "Create saved launches, embeddable buttons, and shareable URLs that start a Discovery Environment app with preset settings."
type: Tutorial
tags:
  - Quick Launch
  - Discovery Environment
  - Sharing
generated:
  by: "claude/opus-5"
  at: "2026-09-11T00:00:00Z"
sources:
  - id: cyverse-learning-materials
    resource: "https://github.com/CyVerse-learning-materials/learning-materials-home/blob/b7392d21be4fd6a67d051847f98c81a18e058a12/docs/de/vice/quick-app-launch.md"
    title: "CyVerse Learning Materials: docs/de/vice/quick-app-launch.md"
    author: "team:cyverse"
    last_modified: "2025-03-16T09:25:29-07:00"
---

# Creating a shareable quick launch button

## 1. Log into the Discovery Environment

Log into https://de.cyverse.org

If you have not yet created an account, go to the [User Portal](https://user.cyverse.org/){target=_blank} and sign up.

## 2. Select App You Want to Share

Navigate to the **Apps** tab on the left hand side menu, select the App that you want to share and click the **Details** button.

![quick-app_1](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/assets/de/quick-app_1.png) 

## 3. Creating Quick Launch Link

At the bottom of the Details window, find the Quick Launch Share button. Clicking it will open a speech bubble with 3 choices: **Saved Launch**, **Embedded Code** or **Shared Saved Launch URL**. Copy the one you need.

![quick-app_2](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/assets/de/quick-app_2.png)
![quick-app_3](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/assets/de/quick-app_3.png)

- **Saved Launch**: Saved Launch allows you to create a launch button that starts the App with a specified set of resources.
- **Embedded Code**: Creates a button that can be used in websites; The button will then redirect to the App launch page. Note: to operate the App, users will require a CyVerse account. 
- **Shared Saved Launch URL**: Creates a link to the App.

## 4. Sharing with Collaborators

Here is the link created with the **Embedded Code** choice:

```
<a href="https://de.cyverse.org/apps/de/c2227314-1995-11ed-986c-008cfa5ae621/launch?saved-launch-id=f7eadb21-1b78-4da9-b587-baf0b5fc527e" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://de.cyverse.org/Powered-By-CyVerse-blue.svg"></a>
```

This can be pasted onto a webpage to create the following button: <a href="https://de.cyverse.org/apps/de/c2227314-1995-11ed-986c-008cfa5ae621/launch?saved-launch-id=f7eadb21-1b78-4da9-b587-baf0b5fc527e" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://de.cyverse.org/Powered-By-CyVerse-blue.svg"></a>

!!! info "Under the hood"

    Quick launches, which preset an app's parameters, are created and resolved through the Terrain API endpoints described in [Quick launches](https://docs.cyverse.org/api/endpoints/quick-launches/){target=_blank} in the CyVerse Developer Documentation.

<p class="carc-provenance" markdown>Adapted from [CyVerse Learning Materials](https://github.com/CyVerse-learning-materials/learning-materials-home/blob/b7392d21be4fd6a67d051847f98c81a18e058a12/docs/de/vice/quick-app-launch.md){target=_blank} (last source update 2025-03-16), CC BY 4.0. Spotted a problem? [Open an issue](https://github.com/UNM-CARC/cyverse/issues){target=_blank}.</p>