Building New Mobile Screens: A Round Up of Essential Articles

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The mobile optimised theme for Sage CRM is one of its most useful features for customers. The optimised theme allows online access to Sage CRM using just about any mobile device. The theme presents a subset of Sage CRM's screens in a form suitable for the device and screen size being used to access the data. These mobile optimised screens require internet access but they can be extended to include new entities, fields and structures.

The mechanism for extending the mobile optimised themes is code-less. There are no scripts to write and it is all done by using the inbuilt system action 'RunBlock'.

RunBlock can also be used to build addition screens for the main Desktop interface. Over the last few years there have been several articles written that together build a very good pictture of how to carry out customizations using RunBlock. Below are just a selection of these.

RunBlock Fundamentals

Using RunBlock to Build New Mobile Screens (iPhone/Android and Tablet)

Note: The articles below refer to building iPhone screens but the same method is used for building screens for the Android and Tablet themes.

Videos
Sage CRM: Customizing the Mobile Theme
Sage CRM - Extending Sage CRM - Extending the Mobile Interfaces

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  • Hi, Jeff. Thanks for the consolidated collection. I've followed Aoife's article , except that my Entity was not Created by the Wizard. Everything links together fine but when I use Find to get to MyEntitySearchBox I have no "Find" button on the top of the screen above the fields. If I select another similar screen I can get Cancel and Save buttons to show up but still no Search. What is causing the Runblock to render the "Find" button or other buttons for that matter ? I can't seem to find any correlation anywhere that influences this behavior.

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  • Hi, Jeff. Thanks for the consolidated collection. I've followed Aoife's article , except that my Entity was not Created by the Wizard. Everything links together fine but when I use Find to get to MyEntitySearchBox I have no "Find" button on the top of the screen above the fields. If I select another similar screen I can get Cancel and Save buttons to show up but still no Search. What is causing the Runblock to render the "Find" button or other buttons for that matter ? I can't seem to find any correlation anywhere that influences this behavior.

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