Device Application Designer Preferences

Use the Preferences page to set Device Application Designer preferences for automatic screen creation, question dialogs, and font mappings.

Automatic creation

Use the automatic creation preferences to specify which screens to create automatically when you drag and drop a data source on the Flow Design page.

Preference	Description
Create a menu item with a connection action for new connections	Create a menu item on the Screen Design page with an action assigned for the new connection.
Table of Contents	The Table of Contents preferences allow you to set preferences for the way screens appear on the device if you use the Table of Contents screen in the Flow Design. Create Menu Items – the screens in the device application appear on the device as menu items. Create Hyperlink Items – the screens in the device application display as hyperlinks. Create Hyperlink and Menu Items – this is the default and means that both hyperlinks and menu items display on the device.
Screen Creation – specify the screens that are crated automatically when you add a mobile business object to the Flow Design.
Operations	Operations Screens Pending Operation Screen – create the pending operation screen for mobile business object operations on the table screen. Delete Operation Screen – create the delete operation screen for mobile business objects on the table screen. Logs Screen – create a log screen that shows synchronization activity.
Relationships	Relationship Screens – create all relationship screens for a mobile business object table screen. Relationship Automatic Screens – create all relationship automatic screens for the relationship screen. This recursively creates screens for each relationship screen.
General	Search Screen – create a search screen for the mobile business object table screen. List Details Screen – create a list details screen for the mobile business object table screen. Synchronization Screen – create a synchronization screen. A synchronization screen lists all of the mobile business objects used and allows you to selectively synchronize mobile business objects.

Do not ask these questions

Select the dialogs you do not want to display while designing the device application. For example, when deleting multiple screens or connections from the Flow Design, the confirmation dialog appears for each screen or connection you delete. If you do not want the dialog to display multiple times, select the options in the Flow Design section.

Preference	Description
Flow Design	Select the dialogs you do not want to display while designing in the Flow Design.
Screen Design	Select the dialogs you do not want to display while designing in the Screen Design.
General	Select the dialogs you do not want to display.

Unselect the boxes next to the dialogs you want to appear. You can also select these preferences during design time from the dialog box itself when you select Do Not Show This Dialog Again and click Yes.