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”.

This page allows you to extract content from the Web page (which is shown at the bottom) to display on mobile users' devices. The items of extracted content are shown in the Page Format Content table at the top. You select an existing piece of content by clicking on it and highlighting it in the Page Format Content area. For explanations of the various content properties, shown in the Properties column, see below and (Section 8.10, “Configure Content Properties”).

Clicking on Preview shows you the text of the extracted content for the whole page (in a Preview of Extracted Content pop-up.

Adding Content

To add additional content, click on Add Web Page Content. Extracted content may be almost anything on the Web page. Content may be shown to the user as read-only text, or, if the content is a text input, dropdown, checkbox, etc., then it can be editable by the user on their mobile device, if desired.

Content is organized like folders and files: most kinds of content can have other content "underneath" them. Each piece of content may either be underneath another piece of content, or at top-level, i.e., not underneath anything on the page format. If the content is a table, row, or contains multiple items, it will be extracted as a List of items, and if there are fields within each List item, they will be underneath the List.

Usually, you will want to put some content underneath another piece of content because the content underneath depends on the presence of the piece above it. You might also put content uderneath in order to organize groups of related content, and keep the list of top-level content from getting unmnanageably long.

So, when content is underneath another piece of content, it may either be to organize it, or if the content above is a List, then the content items underneath are the fields composing each element in the list, of which there may be several.

To add new content underneath an existing piece of content, (e.g., as a field within an existing List of content items), then first select the existing piece of content, then click on Add Web Page Content. To add new content at top-level, to the page as a whole, when some content is already selected, then click on Clear Selection first.

If you want to extract columns from within a table, you would first extract the table using Add Web Page Content. Then you would highlight the extracted table (within the Page Format Content area) and click on Add Web Page Content to extract the columns from the table. Step-by-step instructions for doing this are in (Section 8.8, “Select Page Content”).

To add some fixed text, which could be used for clarifying or annotating the other extracted content, click Add Fixed Text. If you want the fixed text to serve as a header, or as a separator between sections of extracted content, you have the option of not displaying its label.

To edit the name and/or properties of some extracted content, select it and click Edit. You can remove extracted content by selecting it in the Content Name column and clicking on Remove.

Reorganizing Content

The order and arrangement in which content items are shown to the user on their mobile device is independent of the contents' location on the Web page. Content items on the users' screens, and fields within an enclosing List, can be reordered using Move Up and Move Down .

To further reorganize how extracted content is displayed to the user, you can also use the Ungroup button to take extracted content that has fields within it and ungroup the fields. You will see this button available only if you highlight content that has fields within it. An example of this would be a List of Expense Items table that has fields for Date, Payee, Purpose and Amount. Ungrouping the List of Expense Items would make all the fields be independent (from the table) and remove the List of Expense Items table.

Landmark Content

To extract content from the page which will not be shown to the user, click Add Landmark. The presence of this content on the Web page would then be used, along with other extracted content marked as "always present", to determine whether the Web page matches the current page format. A description of page format matching behavior is in (Section 8.5, “Choose Page Format”). Any other content underneath a Landmark will also not be visible to the user, but macros attached to that content will be available whenever that content is present on the Web page.

Proceeding To Other Steps

Once you've completed extracting content from the web page, click on Configure Matching. There also is the option of selecting Change Format Name if you want to change the name of the page format.