Working with public channels

This section describes the steps to create a public channel that you can display and access on an M-Business client.

Creating a new public channel

Select M-Business from the left pane. The M-Business Manager menu displays.

Select Channels | Public, and click New in the toolbar. The New Public Channel window displays.

Enter a new public channel:

Title (required) – enter Google as the name of your new channel.
Location (required) – enter http://www.google.com as the URL of the channel content.

Click Preview to preview the channel content, then close the Google window.
Category – select “Search” from the Category drop-down list. This is the category in which your new channel is grouped.
Description – enter test as the description of your new channel.
Channel Size Limit (KB) – enter 100 as the maximum size in kilobytes (KB) that the entire channel can consume.
Link Depth – enter 0 to indicate how many levels of hypertext links to traverse when downloading channel content to the device.

You can use these options, by clicking the check boxes to the left, but they are not used in the tutorial:

Include Images – select this option to include all the images from the channel.
Follow Offsite Links – select this option if M-Business Anywhere server must to fetch an HTTP address or other Web-based content from a server other than the one that hosts the channel.
Allow Binary Distribution – unselect this option. Select this if the channel is a binary file, for example, an .exe or .dll file.
Auto Subscribe For Users – unselect this option for the tutorial. If you select this option, all M-Business users are automatically subscribed to this public channel.

Click OK to save your new public channel, and click OK to confirm.

You see the new channel in the list of public channels.

Editing a public channel

Do not edit the channel because you need it in a later tutorial. This procedure is provided in case you need it.

From the M-Business Manager menu, select Channels | Public. The list of public channels displays. Right-click the channel to edit from the list, and select Edit.

The Edit Public Channel window displays. Make the desired changes to the public channel, and click OK.

Click Cancel to return to the originating page without saving the changes.

Deleting a public channel

Do not delete the channel because you need it in a later tutorial. This procedure is provided in case you need it.

From the M-Business Manager menu, select Channels | Public. The list of public channels displays. Right-click the channel to delete from the list and select Delete.

Click Yes in the confirmation pop-up to delete the channel.

Click No if you do not want to delete the channel.

You can delete more than one public channel at the same time by pressing Ctrl and selecting the public channels, then right-clicking on any of the selected channels and selecting delete.