Installing PODS on users' devices

Note

This section presents a summary of the main steps involved in installing PODS on users' devices. For more detailed coverage of all the issues involved, see the Application Developer Guide for M-Business Anywhere.

To install a POD on your users' devices
  1. Define a channel that includes your POD in its path:

  2. Log in to the M-Business Server Administrator Console as admin.

    You need to be logged in as Admin to enable hiding the channel and synchronizing binaries.

  3. Navigate to the New Channel page.

  4. In the Location field, specify a URL to the POD.

  5. Set up the Web server serving the POD to support MIME type application/octet-stream.

  6. Enable the channel to synchronize binaries.

    Check the Allow Binary Distribution channel property. This property enables the channel to synchronize binaries such as a POD.

  7. Hide the channel so that it does not appear as a link on the device.

    Check the Hide from Users channel property. If this property is not checked, the channel appears in M-Business Client.