Hi Folks, You may recall my dismay and disappointment upon discovering that several of the Mid-tier user interface objects did not work on iOS (Apple touch-screen) devices. I was bemoaning this problem to a colleague a few weeks ago and he suggested that it might be possible to make it work by tweaking some CSS or Javascript. I was skeptical but he was insistent and offered me the "use" of Garrison Locke, of one of his staff to take a look. After I showed Garrison around the environment and demonstrated the problem, he too was skeptical. But he persevered and a couple of hours later, he had it working! He made modifications to seven lines of Javascript across two files and now it all works. I can select menu items from drop-down menus, select rows from tables and results from the results browser.
I am not sure of the rules and/or ethics of posting changes to BMC Javascript files but if you are interested in what he did, feel free to contact me off-list. I did check with my BMC support folks (ColumnIT) and they said that it is Ok to modify the Javascript files. Just make sure that you understand that patches and upgrades will overwrite your changes and they will have to be reapplied or re-worked. Hope this is helpful. Larry On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, L G Robinson <n...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Thanks for the suggestion. That would probably work. However, another > lister has pointed out (and I have confirmed) that we have bigger problems > on touch devices... drop-down character menus don't work either. The menu > will drop down but you can't select a menu item by tapping it. The only > workaround I have found for this is to press on the menu item until the > "Copy" contextual menu appears and copy the menu item. Then you can paste it > into the field. I expect my users would not find this to be acceptable. > > Looks like the iPad really isn't compatible with Mid-tier. > > Hope this is helpful. > Larry > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Ian Trimnell wrote: > > > ** > > On 26/01/2011 19:04, L G Robinson wrote: > >> Hi Folks, > >> > >> Has anyone figured out how to setup a List View table field so that it > can be used with a touch enable device such as an iPad? I have such a table > on one of my forms. When the form is loaded into Mobile Safari on the iPad, > I am unable to select a specific row of the table by tapping it or any other > gesture that I can think of. > >> > >> I have added "Prev" and "Next" buttons onto the table field so I have a > workaround. Just wondering if there is a better way. Maybe some clever CSS > that is tailored for the iPad or similar devices? > >> > >> ARS: 7.6.3 > >> Solaris 10 > >> Oracle: 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit > >> > >> Thanks. > >> Larry > >> > > Hi Larry, > > > > As you are on ARS 7.6.3 you can probably do what I have done upon > noticing the way that iOS devices can't handle these tables. I have added a > column, with a button labelled 'Open', to the table. Work-flow causes the > drill-down to occur when the button is clicked (or tapped on an iOS device). > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Ian > > Ian Trimnell, Systems Programmer, Client Systems > > Distributed Systems, Information Technology > > Open University, MILTON KEYNES, UK > > Phone: 01908 653741 web: http://www.open.ac.uk/ > > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an > exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC > 038302). > > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
