This page describes a part of the Mobile Dashboard's process for configuring web sites. For an introduction to the web site configuration process, see Section 8.1, “Introduction to Web Site Configuration”. For a general introduction to the online help manual, see Section 1.1, “Mobile Dashboard Online Help Manual Overview”.
On this screen you can set the properties of the extracted content. If the button is enabled, then you may click it to choose which data format this content should have. Data formats are built-in for dates, times, numbers, yes/no values and more, and you can also create customizd data formats (which must be simple text items, and may have restricted data values) using the appropriate Agenda activity under Fine Tuning / Content.
The checkbox should be checked when this content always appears on the Web page, so that the Web page will not match the current page format unles this content is found.
The checkbox (only visible when appropriate) is used to indicate that the user should be allowed to edit the value of this content on their mobile device, for example, when the extracted content is a text input field, dropdown, checkbox, etc. If not checked, the content will be read-only.
The checkbox (only visible when appropriate) is used to indicate that changing the input value can cause other changes to the Web page, e.g., when selecting a dropdown value, radio button, or checkbox might change the contents of some other dropdown, or might cause other content to appear or disappear from the Web page.
Note that checking this box will cause the users' mobile device to communicate with the server every time the user changes the value of this input; this additional overhead is necessary in order to detect possible changes to other content on the Web page. It may also cause any macro that uses this content to be separated into multiple phases, includig a Beginning, zero or more middle phases, and a Finish phase, which is also necessary to allow users to edit content that modifies the Web page.