New Mobile Workflow Package Features

New Mobile Workflow package features for Sybase Unwired Platform include the ability to initiate Mobile Workflows using data change notifications, the ability to specify values for session personalization keys, and iOS 4.0 and iPad support.

Initiate Mobile Workflows using DCN

Initiate Mobile Workflows on the server through DCN requests. You can now send a Mobile Workflow notification messages to the server, which can contain one or more DCN request objects.

This enables you to process the general DCN request and also send notification to the device to keep the Mobile Workflow in sync with changes to the back-end server.

See Developer Reference for Mobile Workflow Packages > Mobile Workflow Data Change Notification.

Specify Values for Session Personalization Keys

If you have a mobile business object with load parameters mapped to session personalization keys, you can specify values for those personalization keys when you invoke an operation or object query from the Mobile Workflow package. This can be useful for loading only specific data into the consolidated database from large data sources.

Create a mobile business object that has load parameters. (Set the load parameters in the MBO Properties view, from the Load Parameters tab.)
Create a corresponding session personalization key for each load parameter.
Map each load parameter to the corresponding personalization key.
In the Mobile Workflow Forms Editor, map the personalization keys to the Mobile Workflow keys for the menu item (in the same way you map parameters to Mobile Workflow keys).
You can also fill the personalization key values from values extracted from the e-mail message, depending on from where you are invoking the object query.

iPad and iOS 4.0 support

You can now deploy Mobile Workflow packages to iOS 4.0 and iPad devices.