The Public Channel wizard allows you to associate the selected approved mobile application with an M-Business public channel (available to all users). M-Business users automatically have access to the channel. This topic describes the properties to be set when deploying a mobile application to an M-Business public channel. To access the Public Channel wizard:
Right-click the mobile application and select Deploy to Mobile Devices.
Select Create Public Channel.
Click Next. Your options are:
Title – enter the name of your new channel.
Location – enter the URL of the channel content. Click Preview to preview the channel content, then close the window.
Category – indicate:
Public – for a public channel. A public channel is accessible by all users.
Category – for a specific group, select a category, such as “Search,” from the drop-down list. Category is used to organize channels for ease of searching, and so on. No access control is performed.
Channel Size Limit (KB) – enter the maximum size that the entire channel can consume, such as 100, for 100KB.
Description – enter a description of your new channel.
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 Finish when done. The mobile application is associated with the specified public channel.
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