Creating M-Business Channels

Use the M-Business view to create, edit, and delete M-Business Anywhere channels used to deploy Web content to mobile devices. Channels are public (available to all users), or limited to groups (available only to those members of a group into which the channel is deployed).

To create a new public channel:

  1. To access the M-Business view, select Windows|Show View|M-Business on the main menu.

  2. In the M-Business view, click the pull-down menu on the local toolbar, and select New|Public Channel.

    Create public channel

    FieldDescription
    Connection Profile

    Select the server where the public channel will be located.

    Name

    Enter the name of the new channel.

    Location

    Enter the URL of the channel content. Click Preview to preview the channel content, then close the window.

    Category

    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. See Creating M-Business Categories.

    Channel Size Limit

    Enter the maximum size that the entire channel can consume, such as 100, for 100KB.

    Description

    Enter a description for the 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.

  3. Click OK.

Related Task

Editing M-Business Channels

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