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About Using Forms on Multiple Platforms
24.3. About Using Forms on Multiple Platforms
If you are going to use a form with both the LincDoc Mobile (on an iPad) and on the standard, web-based application, the following considerations should be made first:
- Forms created using Microsoft Word have limitations when used in the mobile app. When the source document is a Word file, the iPad user will be unable to view the generated document (created after the form is populated). PDFs do not have this limitation. A message will appear, describing this limitation, when a form based on a Word source file is submitted in the app (via the Finish button).
- On the Admin dialog box's Actions tab, the following behavior should be noted:
- Forms filled-in using the mobile app do not perform any of the actions under the Submit button.
- Forms filled-in using the standard (web) application never trigger the On sync event.
- Review the DANG functions that can be used with the mobile app (based on the Available with Mobile column in the tables).
- Temporary variables in Advanced Calculations are not supported in the mobile app.
- Review the condition operators that can be used with the mobile app (based on the Available with Mobile column in the tables).
- The following actions are supported with the mobile app:
- The following field-level events are supported with the mobile app:
- before applying signature
- on change
- on load
- Rules are supported in the mobile app (so long as any functions that might be used within the rules are subject to the aforementioned restrictions).
- In the mobile app, codelists and lookups can be made "offline-able" (made available when not connected to a network, such as when a Wi-Fi connection is not present). Under these conditions::
- For a codelist to be available offline, it must be of type Manual entry or JDBC.
- For a lookup to be available offline, it must be of type JDBC.
- In the mobile app you cannot perform generation calculations.
- Form validation rules are not evaluated on the iPad.
- Source documents that use landscape orientation automatically switch to portrait orientation after they are signed or synchronized. This is a known issue. In the short term, it is recommended that you use the portrait orientation for your source document.
- Guests are not allowed to use the mobile app since accessing it requires all users to log in.
- Calculated section captions do not work in the mobile app - the section name always appears in the caption.
- Prompt to Select Some is not supported with LincDoc Mobile.
- Edit Copy is not supported with LincDoc Mobile.
- Checkbox columns is not supported with LincDoc Mobile.
- CheckedBoxesLabels is not supported with LincDoc Mobile. This is the function that returns the labels of checked checkbox groups.
- Using a PDF source document with check box fields that is saved as optimized may cause unexpected behavior in LincDoc Mobile's document viewer. It has been found that checked check box fields display as unchecked. So it is recommended to not save as optimized your PDF source document if your eForm/document package is used on LincDoc Mobile.