Hello I have been searching the internet and so far have found two ways to expose domino applications to blackberry devices. 1. Expose wanted functionality with web services and use BB MDS Studio to consume the services.
What are the pros and cons of these and if there are other ways to do this? Thanks in advance.
Subject: Enabling Domino Apps for Blackberry
Thank you all for the feedback. Now how about security? What would be needed to put in place a solid security architecture for the blackberry apps?
Subject: Enabling Domino Apps for Blackberry
I have made some changes to our Workflo!Approval application to make it work on a BB browser. If you set the browser to EI emulation you can get a fairly good representation of the application, however, you need to design your forms and views to allow for the very limited real estate on the BB screen. Use the $$ViewTemplate For XXXX to customize the view, and computed subforms to conserve space.
The changes that I had to make were not too great, but I had to modify the doClick generated by Domino if the document is not in Edit Mode. Action buttons on a read only document probably wont work. Also, the BB browser is very sensitive to the \ and / in the URL.
You can download a demo of the Workflo!Approval with the code to do this from our site at:
Subject: Web Enabling Domino Apps for Mobiles
I don’t do any blackberry specific development on the grounds that I’d be restricting my clients to a given platform. Using only the web has its pitfalls but in the long run, wider compatibility is, IMHO more desirable.
Subject: Enabling Domino Apps for Blackberry
Hello!
What I did for a few sites was use the “HTTP_User_Agent” CGI variable to see if the website was being seen in a browser or on the Blackberry.
Then use any type of @If logic based on the outcome of that field. For example:
show different stylesheets
show different subforms
show different action buttons,
etc., etc., etc…
I’ve found this to be the easiest way to do it. My 2¢…
Good luck!
Steve in NYC
“It hurts to be on the cutting edge.”
Subject: Enabling Domino Apps for Blackberry
These links may be of some help.
Lotus Domino and Blackberry Integation:
http://www.notesberry.org/notesberry/blog.nsf
Lotusphere Session, BP211, Delivering IBM Lotus Domino Applications to Mobile Devices:
http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf/d6plinks/GELD-7CD7B4
Gregg