Bookshelf v7.5: Specifying Default Views in the Configuration File

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Specifying Default Views in the Configuration File

The Siebel Handheld application uses a small subset of views in the Siebel enterprise application. Because there are memory resource constraints on the handheld devices, it is recommended that you extract only those views that are used on the handheld.

There are two methods for specifying which views will be extracted to the handheld. The first method is to compile an .srf of only those views that are relevant to the Siebel Handheld application. Or, alternatively, you may specify the handheld views in the Siebel Handheld configuration file located in the \siebsrvr\BIN\Language directory (Direct Server Sync deployments) or client\BIN\Language directory (Companion Sync deployments), where Language is the language of the application (for example, ENU for English).

The views are specified in the [PDA] section of the handheld configuration file (phce.cfg). By default, all views for the handheld application are listed here. Edit the list so that only those views which your application is using appear in the list. Use the following syntax to specify the views:

DefaultViews1="view_name"
DefaultViews2="view_name"
DefaultViews3="view_name"
DefaultViewsn="view_name"

where view_name is the name of the view as it appears in Siebel Tools. The name must match precisely or it will be ignored during synchronization. It is recommended that you copy and paste the name from Siebel Tools into the handheld configuration file.

The combination of the .srf file, the handheld .cfg file, and the user's responsibility determines which views are extracted. Siebel Server uses the information in the handheld configuration file and the .srf file during synchronization in the following way:

If no default views are specified in the handheld configuration file, all the views in the .srf are extracted during synchronization. If the .srf contains only the handheld-specific views, then this is the same as listing each handheld view in the handheld configuration file.

If default views are specified in the handheld configuration file, then only those views are extracted. If there are some views that do not match the views in the .srf file, these are ignored.

If default views are specified in the handheld configuration file, but none of the views match those listed in the .srf file, then all the views in the .srf are extracted.