People have been using Remedy on Blackberry and Palm devices for years. Aeroprise, MobileReach, and a slew of other companies have written apps and plugins to do just that. If you are trying to do it without one of those apps, you could size down a view of a form and view it on any device that can run a browser. I would recommend that you make a small front-end form for that use, so that all of the Active Links associated with a big form won't load onto the device and eat up its memory.
Rick On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Rabi Tripathi <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe, > Droid is Google's operating system that uses a "Webkit" based browser. > iPhone's browser is built on Webkit too. > > I don't want to get hung up on the specifics. I just want to hear about > successes and failures from people that have tried to get Midtier to work on > different mobile devices. Anybody? > > > > --- On Mon, 12/14/09, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: how far can it > go? > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, 2:35 AM > > Hey Rabi, > > > > I assumed your smartphone (since you claimed you are using > > that) is loaded > > with Windows mobile OS which is a MS product and uses > > Internet Explorer as > > its browser.. > > > > I was and still am under the impression that it was > > Microsoft that first > > coined the term smartphones for devices that were PDA's > > with a phone > > function included.. Hence my assumption that you had IE on > > your phone.. It > > has nothing to do on the day of the week I swear - such > > things have an > > effect on only mortal humans haha!! > > > > On a serious note, if you do not have IE, you must be using > > either a mac > > phone (iPhone) or a blackberry?? Or maybe even the latest > > Nuvi Garmin phone > > or one of the Nokia PDA/phones? In that case yes it MAY not > > be IE - About 5 > > years ago I did have had a fancy Nokia phone that was not a > > Windows mobile > > phone and did have IE in its OS.. > > > > If it is not IE that you are using then there is your small > > problem in the > > first place. The Mid-Tier application was generally tested > > for IE browsers > > on PC's and to the best of my knowledge IE browsers on > > wireless devices as > > well. I am not sure if it is even tested for > > blackberries.. > > > > I used the mid tier application on a my older phone that > > had a Windows 6 OS > > and did not have the same problem you said you are > > experiencing which is why > > I suggested downgrading it to a lower version (just in case > > the newer one is > > not compatible).. > > > > Joe > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > > [mailto:[email protected]]on > > Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi > > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:58 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: how > > far can it > > go? > > > > > > Joe: > > You said (a lot)-- > > Try lower version of IE. > > Try newer phone firmware. > > Consider it a bug on the phone browser. > > Open a ticket with phone company to find out why midtier > > won't work on their > > browser. > > > > It's not IE...but it's a Sunday reply, so I have to thank > > you. :) > > > > --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > From: Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile > > devices: how far can it go? > > > To: [email protected] > > > Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:48 PM > > > Rabi, > > > > > > This could well be a problem with the version of IE > > used in > > > your smart > > > phone.. try backdating (if a lower version is > > available) or > > > updating the HTC > > > phones firmware if an update is available, so you can > > check > > > if a previous > > > version or a later released version works better? > > > > > > Also it looks like a bug with the browser on the > > smart > > > phone since all these > > > things work on browsers on a PC including non IE > > browsers > > > such as safari and > > > FireFox with a few limitations that are not really > > that > > > significant.. > > > > > > So I may raise a ticket with the vendors of your phone > > too > > > and have them try > > > out what you are experiencing and compare the > > difference > > > from a PC and a > > > smart phone in case you have your applications > > deployed on > > > the web so they > > > could access your pages and experience your problems > > first > > > hand.. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > > > [mailto:[email protected]]on > > > Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi > > > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 5:15 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile > > devices: how > > > far can it > > > go? > > > > > > > > > One more thing with Eris Droid: > > > double clicking on a table row is not registered, > > because > > > that is > > > intercepted by Droid to do a zoom out. This can > > perhaps be > > > changed in Droid > > > configuration. > > > > > > --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Rabi Tripathi <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > From: Rabi Tripathi <[email protected]> > > > > Subject: Getting Midtier to work on mobile > > devices: > > > how far can it go? > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:08 PM > > > > Hi all, I just started testing > > > > Midtier performance on Smart Phone browsers. It > > > appears that > > > > forms and workflow tend to work on phone > > browsers, but > > > have > > > > limitations. Has anybody played around with > > this? > > > Your > > > > experience? > > > > > > > > I am trying a custom "console" form on HTC Eris > > Droid > > > that > > > > I just got from Verizon. This and many other > > more > > > complex > > > > pages render fine, but when working on the > > forms, > > > there are > > > > some issues. The most annoying for me at this > > point > > > are: > > > > -Menu selection doesn't work. Menus list items > > ok, but > > > I > > > > can't click on any of the item. The click either > > > doesn't > > > > register, or if the click happened over a field > > in > > > the > > > > background, the background field gets the click. > > > > > > > > -Native buttons such save, don't seem to work. > > > > > > > > Since what browsers get back from midtier is > > DHTML > > > > (HTML+javascript+...), and many (most?) mobile > > > browsers > > > > support basic HTML and javascript. I was hoping > > to get > > > a > > > > much better result. "basic" is perhaps the key > > here. > > > > > > > > Any comments? Don't tell me my expectations are > > out > > > of > > > > line. At least in a user community with a > > limited > > > number of > > > > devices/browsers, I would like to see midtier be > > > usable. 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