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 extract content from the web page. If you move your mouse around the web page, you'll see items highlighted that you can select via mouse clicks. If you select an item on the web page, it will be selected and shown in the Selected Content Text area. (Use the button to remove items from the Selected Content Text area.) Pressing the spacebar will expand the region which will be selected by a mouse click; pressing backspace will contract the region that will be selected. If your selected content is correct, click on .
Selecting cancels the current content selection process and takes you back to the Configure Content for Page Format page (Section 8.7, “Configure Content For Page Format”).
Click on to limit the selected content, e.g., rows in a table, to items that match a filter pattern. For examples and details about using patterns, see (Section 9.19, “Using Patterns”).
If you'd like to capture a table of information (e.g., a table showing expenses and, for example, containing a data column a payee column, an amount column, etc.), you will need to do the following:
Move your mouse over to one of the cells in one of the rows in the table.
Hit the spacebar, which then picks up the entire row of the table.
Click on the mouse to now select the entire row.
Check the box that says Enable the selection of multiple items.
Then click on another row of the table. You will now see that all rows of the table have been selected. They are shown in the Selected Content Text area.
Click on to then go on to the Name Selected Content page, name the content, then click on Continue to go to the Configure Content Properties page, and set the desired properties.
After you've added the table (content) to the page format, you will see it in the Page Format Content area of the Configure Content for Page Format page. At this point you will likely want to extract the individual columns within the table so it will be formatted similar to the way it is on the web page. In the Page Format Content area, select the table just extracted (e.g., "List of Expense Items") and then click on .
Now, within the Select Page Content page, you'll only be able to select content within the table. Select an element in the first column. You'll see that the entire first column is selected and shown in the Selected Content Text area. Click on to go to the screen to Name Selected Content (e.g., "Date") and the . Do this repeatedly for each column in the table.