This section discusses new features and enhancements to existing features.
SAP support – allows mobile users who have BlackBerry, PocketPC, or Palm devices to access their SAP business applications from their devices in an “always-available” model.
BlackBerry improvements, which include:
The ability to set up multiple profiles on the BlackBerry device, which allows users to:
Define multiple settings
Give a logical name to the profile definition
Select which sync profile to use when a SyncAll is performed
Create new settings, and update and delete existing settings
Group available applications based on the profile name
The ability to have a mobile portal using the BlackBerry browser on devices connected with an Mobile Data Services (MDS) module residing on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Data “chunking” so that users can sync applications larger than 128K as long as the BlackBerry has sufficient available memory.
To use this functionality, you must ensure that cookies
are enabled on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. See your BlackBerry documentation.
Menu enhancements, which include:
Search – users can perform searches in all available rows and columns.
Logs – users can view the update log to see if the update was successful.
Fix Update – if an update request fails, the user can fix the error by highlighting the log record and selecting Fix Update.
Sync Update – allows users to sync update changes only. When a form submission is sent to the sever, only the update changes are synced—not the application content.
The ability to insert multilevel records on BlackBerry and PDA devices.
Answers Anywhere enhancements, which include:
Using precedence to resolve application conflicts by executing the code in order of:
Application name
Application synonym
Assigned fields and their respective synonyms
Handling date queries so the user can specify dates as parameter values.
Refreshing data from previous queries so the user does not have to retype the query.
Capture and playback enhancements, which include:
Advanced navigation option, which provides greater robustness and reliability when capturing Active-X content.
A capture strategy that makes use of the Document Object Model used by many browsers when displaying HTML page content.
The ability to use @OP tags as part of the URL to be altered during playback.
Improved JSESSION ID handling, which ensures that URLs sent in CCL playback are consistent with the actual JSESSIONID value.
Data validation – allows you to enter regular expressions to validate data you enter for tabular data applications.
Edit – improved ability to edit applications.
Pocket PC – the List/Detail functionality is now available on the Pocket PC.
Support for the Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol, an authentication protocol used by the Microsoft IIS servers.
Graphical user interface installer.
For details about the features, see the Unwired Accelerator Developer’s Guide.
