Just checking ... Did they open a ticket with BMC so the fixes can be added to 
future patches of the MidTier?

-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of L G Robinson
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 2:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Selecting entries on a List View table using a touch device

** Hi Folks,

You may recall my dismay and disappointment upon discovering that several of 
the Mid-tier user interface objects did not work on iOS (Apple touch-screen) 
devices. I was bemoaning this problem to a colleague a few weeks ago and he 
suggested that it might be possible to make it work by tweaking some CSS or 
Javascript. I was skeptical but he was insistent and offered me the "use" of 
Garrison Locke, of one of his staff to take a look. After I showed Garrison 
around the environment and demonstrated the problem, he too was skeptical. But 
he persevered and a couple of hours later, he had it working! He made 
modifications to seven lines of Javascript across two files and now it all 
works. I can select menu items from drop-down menus, select rows from tables 
and results from the results browser.

I am not sure of the rules and/or ethics of posting changes to BMC Javascript 
files but if you are interested in what he did, feel free to contact me 
off-list. I did check with my BMC support folks (ColumnIT) and they said that 
it is Ok to modify the Javascript files. Just make sure that you understand 
that patches and upgrades will overwrite your changes and they will have to be 
reapplied or re-worked.

Hope this is helpful.
Larry

-----Original Message-----
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, L G Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Ian,

Thanks for the suggestion. That would probably work. However, another lister 
has pointed out (and I have confirmed) that we have bigger problems on touch 
devices... drop-down character menus don't work either. The menu will drop down 
but you can't select a menu item by tapping it. The only workaround I have 
found for this is to press on the menu item until the "Copy" contextual menu 
appears and copy the menu item. Then you can paste it into the field. I expect 
my users would not find this to be acceptable.


Looks like the iPad really isn't compatible with Mid-tier.

Hope this is helpful.
Larry

-----Original Message-----
On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Ian Trimnell wrote:

> **
> On 26/01/2011 19:04, L G Robinson wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Has anyone figured out how to setup a List View table field so that it can 
>> be used with a touch enable device such as an iPad? I have such a table on 
>> one of my forms. When the form is loaded into Mobile Safari on the iPad, I 
>> am unable to select a specific row of the table by tapping it or any other 
>> gesture that I can think of.
>>
>> I have added "Prev" and "Next" buttons onto the table field so I have a 
>> workaround. Just wondering if there is a better way. Maybe some clever CSS 
>> that is tailored for the iPad or similar devices?
>>
>> ARS: 7.6.3
>> Solaris 10
>> Oracle: 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Larry
>>
> Hi Larry,
>
> As you are on ARS 7.6.3 you can probably do what I have done upon noticing 
> the way that iOS devices can't handle these tables.  I have added a column, 
> with a button labelled 'Open', to the table.  Work-flow causes the drill-down 
> to occur when the button is clicked (or tapped on an iOS device).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ian
> Ian Trimnell, Systems Programmer, Client Systems
> Distributed Systems, Information Technology
> 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).

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