Like a personal or group channel, a public channel is a means to distribute Web-based content and applications to your users. Public channels are available to all users. From the Personal Mode interface of M-Business Server, users can browse and select public channels to add to their devices.
By creating public channels, organizations easily can take content off the company intranet and put it into the hands of their mobile employees. Some examples of intranet content are departmental newsletters, departmental reports, cafeteria schedules, local restaurant listings, training schedules, training materials, company phone books, and so on.
A public channel is unlike either a personal or group channel in the following ways:
Subscribing to public channels is optional for the user.
Neither the admin user nor group administrators can subscribe a user to a public channel.
Users without access to M-Business Server Personal Mode interface cannot subscribe to public channels.
Users cannot create public channels themselves.
The admin user cannot specify refresh property options when creating public channels. Users specify refresh property options.
Public channels cannot be disabled, like personal channels can—if the admin user does not create public channels, users cannot subscribe to them.
For instructions on using public channels, see Managing public channels.
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