When considering whether to break up long pages, you should also consider whether your users will operate primarily in wireless mode or offline synchronization mode and set the channel link depth accordingly. In wireless mode, the user has a constant connection to the Internet through a wireless connection, just like on the desktop. If the user clicks a link for a page that has not been downloaded to the device, it will be downloaded at that time. In offline synchronization mode, the mobile device has no modem connection to the network. If the user clicks a link for a page that has not been downloaded to the device, they see a message saying that the page is not available.

You should design your pages to work well in offline mode, because one of the key advantages of M-Business Client is that it does not require a constant network connection. To do so, simply adjust the link depth for your channel to ensure that all necessary pages are downloaded to the device during a synchronization. A link depth of n means download the index page and any page I can get to in n links from that page. Thus, if your channel consists of a master index that links to ten content pages, set the link depth to one to download all of these pages during a synchronization. If one or more of these content pages in turn link to several other necessary content pages, set the link depth to two.