If your channel includes forms that your readers can submit, you will definitely want to implement the suggestions covered in this chapter. Why? Because at least some of your readers some of the time will be browsing your channel in offline mode. More likely, most of your readers most of the time will be browsing offline. So when they click the Submit button, they cannot receive a response from the server until the next time that they synchronize.

If you do not provide any additional instructions on what should happen after a form is submitted offline, M-Business Client provides a minimal means of handling the form submission—the user receives a message saying that the form will be submitted in the next synchronization and that the response page will be available in something called the Forms Manager.

If you follow a few simple guidelines presented in this chapter, you can give your readers a much more elegant experience, and you have complete control over the messages displayed and how the response pages are accessed after the next synchronization.

If you set up offline form submissions to work just the way you want, M-Business Client will automatically handle any online form submissions the right way—by returning the response page immediately, just like a desktop Web browser would.