Working with channels

This section describes how to manage channels that you can display and access on an M-Business Client. Channels can be accessed by everyone (public) or by those who belong to specific groups (categories). Use the M-Business | Channels | Public option on Mobile Web Studio to create, edit, and delete M-Business Anywhere public channels.

Creating new channels

Use this procedure to create a new public channel, or a new channel for a specific category of users. For the latter, you must first set up the category, as described in “Working with categories”.

Log in to Mobile Web Studio with a user login account that has administrator privileges for M-Business Anywhere (such as masuper/m8super).

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 the name of your new channel.
Location (required) – enter the URL of the channel content.

Click Preview to preview the channel content, then close the window.
Category – indicate whether this is a public channel or a channel for a specific group of users:
- Public – for a public channel, select None from the drop-down list.
- Category – for a specific group, select a category, such as “Search,” from the drop-down list. Only those users in this category can access this channel.
Description – enter a description of your new channel.
Channel Size Limit (KB) – enter the maximum size that the entire channel can consume, such as 100, for 100KB.
Link Depth – enter a number, such as “0” to indicate how many levels of hypertext links to traverse from the first page of the channel when downloading channel content to the device.
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 fetch an HTTP address or other Web-based content from a server other than the one that hosts the channel.
Allow Binary Distribution – select this option if the channel is a binary file, for example, an .exe or .dll file.
Auto Subscribe For Users – select this option for all M-Business users to automatically subscribe to this public channel.

Click OK to save your new public channel, then OK to confirm.

You see the new channel in the list of public channels. All M-Business Anywhere users have access to this channel.

Editing channels

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

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

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

Click No to not delete the channel.

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