7 Offline Services

When visiting a site, or any other location, your device might not be able to connect to the application server. In such cases, you can work on the information currently on the mobile device, making changes to the data. You can update the central repository when your device is able to connect to the server. This chapter contains the following topics:

• Section 7.1, "Offline Functionality"

7.1 Offline Functionality

The following are the details of offline services:

• Notifications will not be received.

• Notifications that have been delivered and marked as favorites, will be available for review.

• Notifications that have been delivered to the device, viewed but not marked as favorite, will not be stored on the mobile device for review.

• You cannot create, modify or delete subscriptions to alerts.

• You cannot modify alert thresholds.

• Location capture functionality is not available.

• Contact synchronization from CTMS to Mobile CRA will not be available. However, contact synchronization from Mobile CRA to device contact application will be available.

• While the mobile device should be connected to the Mobile CRA server to create, download, and submit trip report items, while offline, you can add attendees to the trip report, modify the status of the trip report checklist activities, modify the trip summary text, create a follow up item.

• You cannot upload or save data to CTMS. This will only occur when you request it.