Designing applications to work both online and offline

For information on designing and managing channels that contain forms which users can submit, see Managing Channel Form Submissions.

Follow the few simple guidelines presented in that chapter to give your users a much more elegant experience. You will also have complete control over the messages displayed and how the response pages are accessed after a user’s next synchronization. The chapter contains the topics listed below.


Forms in the online world
Forms in the offline world
What the Forms Manager does
Submitting forms the right way
Avoiding collisions in multiple offline submissions
Serializing forms: breaking one form into several pages
Using cookies to support personal channels