I tried getting this to work on the 7.1 MT using Blackberry (Storm I believe), but always ran into an error when trying to load a page. I know it would really be nice to have this functionality.
Andy L. Mayfield Protection & Control Technician Sr. Alabama Power Company Office: 205-226-1805 Cell: 205-288-9140 SoLinc: 10*19140 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Trimnell Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: how far can it go? ** Jason Miller wrote: ** We have tried for years as the device get more powerful and the MT gets faster. To this day we are yet to find a device that can utilize enough functionality to be usable. The closest we have come is with the newer generation Blackberries (Storm/Tour) and the iPhone with both MT 7.1 and 7.5. We can get authenticated and load a very basic form display only form. We have see similar issues where tables to not work as designed, buttons and Active Links do not work. It doesn't take too complex of a form to make a Blackberry display an error that the page is too large to load. We are closer than we have ever been but not quite there yet. We are supposed to be getting a few demo phones <not sure if there is any kind of NDA so I will not state the device> that are claimed to have full browser functionality including flash. We'll see how these work when they materialize. Jason I have been working on getting our forms to work on the iPhone (which seem to be the only mobile devices that seem to work with our internal WiFi network) but it is a bit of an uphill challenge. As people have previously said, some objects, like menus and double-clicking on table rows, don't work on the iPhone. Also, getting large fields to display with a scroll-bar is a bit hit-and-miss (although I have been given a JavaScript workaround from BMC that sometimes helps). For example, getting the diary to display caused me quite a headache. My final solution was to write it out to an HTML page and then use an open URL Perform Action AL to display it. Thanks for the idea to get menus displayed as tables - I'll give that a try. Buying an Aeroprise set-up is not a solution for us as with the number of devices that we are using doesn't justify the cost. Aeroprise did tell me once that they are working on a solution specifically for the iPhone but were a bit sketchy on details. I have also written CGI scripts using ARSperl, but that is not really the way forward that I wish to take. Hope this helps, Ian ________________________________ Ian Trimnell, AR System Lead Developer (amongst other jobs), Specialist Support & Development, Training & Support Services, Academic & Administrative Computing Service Open University, MILTON KEYNES, UK Phone: 01908 653741 web: http://www.open.ac.uk/ The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
