You have to remove unecessary data columns when showing it on handheld.. or shrink the content by trimming the data in the columns...Same principle is used by google on handhelds (eg;http://www.google.com/
~Hemanth
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I need some tips for creating a webenabled view for use on a handheld device (blackberry).
How can I design a view that will fit on a small screen (browser).
Regards,
Bob
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You have to remove unecessary data columns when showing it on handheld.. or shrink the content by trimming the data in the columns...Same principle is used by google on handhelds (eg;http://www.google.com/
~Hemanth
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by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2005-03-21 at 01:01:44ID: 13589407
Hi Bob, did you already try something? There aren't many tips I know of to reduce the size of a view, it's just a view.
If it's about the width of the view in a browser, it's mainly controlled by the width of individual texts in the columns. The whole view in the browser is put into a <TABLE>, each line is a table row <TR> and each field is a table cell <TD>. Usually, the width of the table is calculated by the browser. You can influence this in several ways:
- supply the width of the column in the column of the view (won't matter much)
- you can shorten each entry in a column yourself, e.g. by using @Left(@Text(xxx); 10) when appropriate
- you can set the view to Treat view contents as HTML
- if you need to see a substantial amount of information of one document, the increase the height of a row
- you could select a smaller font, but that' not going to make the user happy
- think also of the number of rows at a time, as shown in a browserpage