Flow Design Palette Options

Use the Flow Design Palette options to configure the screens, alerts, and connections in your device application.

Screens

Option Description
Empty Creates an empty screen canvas that you can use to design device applications, using the Screen Design page.
Tabl;e of Contents The Table of Contents screen 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.

Stock Screens

You can customize the controls on these provided default (stock) screens.

Option Description
About This is a stock screen you can use to design your own "About screen," that can contain information like version, copyright, author and so on.
Login This is a stock screen used to request user name and password information from the user.
Logs This screen shows synchronization activity.
Pending Operations This screen lists all pending operations that are not yet executed against a mobile business object.
Personalization This lists all the personalization keys for mobile business objects. You can assign default values.
Profile You can use this screen to list and define connection profiles to the data sources.
Push Settings Use this screen to configure push SMS, HTTP, or push e-mail notifications.
Screen Saver The screen saver screen requires a login screen since it locks out with a password, based on a user's inactivity.
Search Use this screen to define search criteria for tables. You can assign this to a mobile business object for pre-filtering before going to a screen with tables.
Synchronize Use this screen to select mobile business objects from the list you want to synchronize. The list of mobile business objects comes from mobile business objects assigned to the Device Application Designer. You can also get information about the mobile business object, as well as configure the push-sync settings.
BlackBerry Custom Code Use this screen to create a custom-coded BlackBerry screen.

Alerts

Option Description
Error Define this alert to pop up an error alert dialog, in which the user can click only OK.
Information Define this to pop up a dialog box that contains an informational message.
Question This is the only alert that is bi-directional. 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.

Connections

Option Description
Cancel Define this connection for a screen that the user automatically goes to when he or she clicks Cancel.
Error Define this connection for a screen that the user automatically goes to when an error occurs.
Go To Define this connection for a screen that the user automatically goes to when he or she clicks OK or Next.
Pending Create a connection for pending synchronizations.
Success Create a connection to a screen that goes to another screen upon the success of an operation.


Created September 17, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com