1. Configuring Siebel Open UI Guide
  2. Configuring Smartphone UX

Configuring Smartphone UX

Siebel Open UI supports an enhanced UX for Smartphone (iOS and Android) devices for mobile applications. With this feature, Siebel Open UI uses a specialized PHONE theme for smartphone devices, where list applets are transformed to Tile visualization mode with infinite scrolling navigation, and navigation defaults to Side Menu. The enhanced Smartphone UX also employs some specialized out-of-the-box context renderers to optimize the layout on the client to ensure the optimal usage of available real estate.

You enable the Smartphone UX for mobile applications bye setting the component parameter AutoTileType to PHONE as follows:

change param AutoTileType=PHONE for comp <application_object_manager>_<language>

For example, to enable Smartphone UX for Service Mobile, modify the component parameter as follows:

change param AutoTileType=PHONE for comp ServiceMObjMgr_Enu
Restart the component after modifying the component parameter to see the enhanced look and feel in Smartphone devices.
Note: For desktop or tablet devices, modifying the AutoTileType component parameter will not change the look and feel of the application.

Guidelines for Customizing Smartphone UX

  • Smartphone UX uses a predefined theme, specially designed for mobile form factor. For information on customizing themes, see Customizing Themes. Make sure to add Smartphone as the Manifest expression value when configuring a custom theme in the Manifest Administration view.

  • Smartphone UX uses the Side menu navigation type by default and its predefined theme provides CSS definition for the Side menu.

  • Smartphone UX uses the Auto Tile feature to display List Applet in Tile visualization mode. For more information, see Auto Tile Visualization Feature. To customize the list of fields in Tile, see Customizing the Tile Content.

  • If Tile visualization mode is not required for any List Applet in Smartphone UX, it can be turned off using the Applet user property. For more information, see Auto Tile Behavior.

  • Smartphone UX uses context renderer to display accordions for Applets in a View. In addition, it uses context renderer for functionality like in-line Tile Editing capability. If required, customized context renderer can be implemented for customization. To deploy Context Renderer only for Smartphone UX mode, configure Smartphone as the Manifest expression when configuring Physical Renderer/Context Renderer in Manifest Administration View. For more information, see About Context Renderers, Configuring Custom Manifests, and Configuring Manifest for Context Renderers.