Mobile Framework

Change Titles and Pick Lists of Mobile Forms

The Archibus Space Book and the Archibus Asset & Equipment Survey mobile apps both present screens for conducting field audits. You may wish to customize aspects of the audits as they appear on the mobile devices.

You may wish to change the titles of the fields that the space auditors and equipment and asset auditors see in order to comply with conventions at your site. When you change a field title or list of enumeration values in the survey table (such as the eq_audit table), make the corresponding change in the inventory table (the eq table) so that the data will remain consistent.

Note: For a proper display of form field labels, the recommended word size is 10 characters. The label can contain multiple words separated with " " (space character), in which case the label will be displayed on multiple lines when it is necessary.

Field Titles

You may wish to change the field title. For example, if your site uses the term "Equipment ID" rather than "Equipment Code", you can change the Field Heading to "Equipment ID."

  1. In Web Central, load the System / Add-In Manager / View Archibus Field Dictionary task.
  2. Use the row filters to find the table and field that you want to change. For example, filter for table name eq_audit .
  3. Change the Field Heading to a new value.
  4. Restart the Web Central application server to clear the old cached headings.
  5. The next time you sync the mobile device, the device's display will show the new field title.

Pick Lists

You may wish to change the enumerated list of values from which the auditor must choose.

  1. In Web Central, load the System / Add-In Manager / View Archibus Field Dictionary task.
  2. Use the row filters to find the table and field that you want to change.
  3. For the desired field, edit the Enumeration List values. Add values in pairs: the first value is the value stored in the database, the second value is the value that the auditor sees in the pick list for that field.
  4. Restart the Web Central application server to clear the old cached values.
  5. The next time you sync the mobile device, the device's display will show the new pick list values.

The mobile framework is aware of the Archibus Web Central schema information. The schema information is transferred to the mobile device using TableDef objects during the synchronization process.