Mobile Workflow Application Launching Behavior

If you anticipate using the Hybrid Web Container for only a single Workflow application, you can customize the Hybrid Web Container to launch the application directly at start-up.

Note: Make sure you implement a Cancel or Back button when you design your Workflow application. If you fail to do this, and you use this customization, your Workflow application opens automatically, but the user will have no way to navigate back to the list of Workflow messages.

This customization makes the Hybrid Web Container initially load an empty TableView until a Workflow package comes down from the server. When this happens, the first Workflow package that comes down opens. When you click Back or Cancel from within the Workflow, you return to the list of installed Workflow packages. From there, you can manually launch Workflows, or go to the Messages list. The Workflow does not launch automatically again until you return from the Messages list. This is the behavior on iPhone. iPad functions slightly differently, both in portrait and landscape mode.

If there is more than one Workflow application assigned to the user, this customization loads the first one that comes down from the server on the initial synchronization. After that, it loads the application that comes first alphabetically, which is the default sorting behavior. If you plan to assign more than one Workflow to a user and you want to use this customization, it is a good idea to combine this with a filtering or sorting customization.

Related tasks
Sorting and Filtering the List of Mobile Workflow Packages and Messages