Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Xpages: Making a CRM app iPhone Friendly

A new task has emerged, i need to make an internal crm database accessible to mobile phones. Since the iPhone is supported for Traveler 8.5.1, i decided to focus on this platform and the inherent capabilities it provides.

First i had allot of trouble getting things sized right for the screen, and then there was zooming issues. I finally discovered a way to help format the page correctly and disable zooming.

In the source view of the Xpage, go to the top and under the <xp:view> tag enter this tag in

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320;

initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />




It only affects the iPhone Safari and displays in its full size on all other browsers.

Other good news was the iPhone automatically turned the phone numbers into links. I made the email address a “mailto:” link, and that opens an iPhone email very fast without leaving Safari.

Tomorrow i will show how i got the iPhone Google maps application to map this address, and also map directions from your current location to the destination address.

And no, its not slow at all, and i don't have 3G.


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1 comments:

belgort said...

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.

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