Use the Flow Design Palette options to configure the screens, alerts, and connections in your device application.
The items that appear on the Flow Design Palette depend on the capabilities of the selected device. Only items supported by the selected device platform display in the Palette. For example, if you selected Windows Mobile as the device platform, the BlackBerry Custom Code screen does not appear in the Flow Design Palette.
| Option | Description |
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| Empty | Creates an empty screen canvas that you can use to design device applications, using the Screen Design page. |
| Table of Contents | Automatically creates "Go To" connections to screens on the Flow Design window when you add it to the Flow Design. It then creates screen design widgets, which allow the user to click something to go to the other screens. |
You can customize the controls on these provided default (stock) screens.
| Screen | Description |
|---|---|
| Login | A stock screen used to request user name and password information from the user. |
| Logs | Shows synchronization activity and client application activities, for example, the server log and client logs. |
| Pending Operations | Lists all pending operations that are not yet executed against a mobile business object. |
| Personalization | Lists all the personalization keys in all packages of MBO references for the current application. You can assign values to these keys. |
| Search | Defines search criteria for tables. |
| Synchronize | Selects a synchronization group to synchronize. The referenced mobile business objects for each available synchronization group display under the synchronization group. When a synchronization group is synchronized, all of the mobile business objects referenced by the synchronization group are synchronized. |
| BlackBerry Custom Code | Creates a custom-coded BlackBerry screen. |
| Windows Mobile Custom Code | Creates a custom-coded Windows Mobile screen. |
Only settings screens with settings supported by the selected profile are shown in the palette. Settings screens are not connected to other screens in the Flow Design.
| Screen | Description |
|---|---|
| About | Design your own "About screen," that can contain information like version, copyright, author and so on. |
| Logging | Specifies the default log level, for example, ERROR, WARN, INFO, and so on, that the client can use for the client side log level definition. In addition, it specifies the label for the default log level. |
| Profile | Lists and defines connection profiles to the data sources. Note: Not for use with message based applications.
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| Push Settings | Configures push HTTP notifications. Note: Not for use with message based applications.
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| Screen Saver | Displays a screen saver. The screen saver requires a login screen since it locks out with a password, based on a user's inactivity.
Note: Not supported on Windows Mobile.
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| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Error | Defines this alert to pop up an error alert dialog, in which the user can click only OK. |
| Information | Defines this to pop up a dialog box that contains an informational message. |
| Question | Displays a biderectional alert with user response support. If the user cancels on the question, they are always returned to the original screen. If a user clicks OK, they go to a defined target screen. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Cancel | Defines this connection for a screen that the user automatically goes to when he or she clicks Cancel. |
| Error | Defines this connection for a screen that the user automatically goes to when an error occurs. |
| Go To | Defines this connection for a screen that the user automatically goes to when he or she clicks OK or Next. |
| Pending | Creates a connection for pending synchronizations. |
| Success | Creates a connection to a screen that goes to another screen upon the success of an operation. |