The ACTIVE Content Manager's Mobile Device Manager allows you to import a list of more than 30 common mobile device types and organize them in folders based on which pages or sites they are used on. No manual configuration settings are required for you to easily get your content up and running on your customer's or site user's mobile devices!
To get started with the mobile functionality, you must complete the settings outlined in the sections that follow:
For each site that will be using the Mobile Device functionality, you need to turn on the feature in the Site Details. See Enabling mobile device functionality.
ACTIVE provides a MobileDeviceTypes.config file that contains definitions for more than 30 types of mobile device categories. Using the Mobile Device Manager, you can import this config file with the click of the Import Device List button.
When “Support Mobile Device” mode of a site is enabled, all the page requests received go through a mobile device detection process. This process is illustrated in the following flowchart.
In order to have ACM pages displayed properly on mobile devices, a separate template can be assigned to any given page/device type combination. So you can set your system to use a different template depending on the type of device that has requested to view the page.
For example, you may have a page template that is designed specifically to allow proper display of the Home Page on an Apple or HTC product.
Mobile pages by default use the generic basic mobile view template that is included with the ACM system. You can copy and customize this template by editing the design package for your site. Then, in the Site Design manager or the design tab of each page, mobile device types stored in the ACM Mobile Device Manager can be added to a template-device type combination list. When displaying a page on a mobile device, ACM will check the combination list of that page to find the right template to use.
You can assign different pagelets to a page that will be viewed on a mobile device. You can assign the regular pagelets for the normal view of a page and there is also a section on the Pagelets tab of the page editor for assigning pagelets, in combination with the customized page viewing template, for mobile viewing.