WIRELESS DATABASE VIEWER PLUS (ENTERPRISE EDITION) USER GUIDE FOR BLACKBERRY SMARTPHONE

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1 WIRELESS DATABASE VIEWER PLUS (ENTERPRISE EDITION) USER GUIDE FOR BLACKBERRY SMARTPHONE PRODUCT VERSION: 2.4.

2 CONTENTS 1 INSTALLATION BLACKBERRY INSTALLATION Wireless Installation Manual Installation USING THE WIRELESS DATABASE VIEWER PLUS ON THE BLACKBERRY PROFILE LIST ON BLACKBERRY MENU ON PROFILE LIST VIEWS AVAILABLE ON BLACKBERRY Multiple Record View and Single Record View SEARCH CONTENTS LOOKUP ON BLACKBERRY Another Profile Custom Lookup Table PREFERENCES BLACKBERRY KEYPAD SHORTCUTS SCREEN : HOMESCREEN SCREEN : GRID SCREEN AND RECORD VIEW SCREEN SCREEN : DETAIL VIEW SCREEN FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS How can I sync my database automatically? What time I can set for automatic synchronization? How to use Lookup on BlackBerry? Whenever I add/edit/delete record on BlackBerry, in Record view I get Red/Cyan color SUPPORTED DATA TYPES SYSTEM REQUIREMENT CONTACT US...21 Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 1

3 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Database List on BlackBerry...4 Figure 2: Menu on Profile List...5 Figure 3: Multiple Record View and Single Record View...6 Figure 4: Menu available on Multiple Record View and Single Record View...7 Figure 5: Search Data...9 Figure 6:Select Lookup column...10 Figure 7: Select Lookup option...11 Figure 8: Select Lookup from another profile...11 Figure 9: Enter your Lookup data...12 Figure 10 : Preferences...13 Figure 11: Status of updated record...18 Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 2

4 1 INSTALLATION You will need to install two components: Install server component on Personal Computer with Microsoft Windows Operating System and client component on your BlackBerry smartphone. This user guide assumes that you have installed the server component, if not, please use the server component user guide to install that. 1.1 BlackBerry Installation You will need to install following applications on the BlackBerry Smartphone using either Wireless (OTA) or manual installation: 1. CWDBVPlusLib 2. CWDBVPlusSyncApp 3. CWDBViewerPlus Wireless Installation To install software on BlackBerry wirelessly (aka OTA), Use the following link in the Browser on BlackBerry Smartphone: Please select CWDBVPlusLib, CWDBVPlusSyncApp and CWDBViewerPlus application for download and follow the prompts. This will install software wirelessly on BlackBerry Manual Installation On your PC, where you have installed the desktop software there is Corporate Wireless Database Viewer Plus folder that contains Device Installation Files/BlackBerry subfolder. This subfolder contains files required to install on the BlackBerry. Use Application Loader available in BlackBerry Desktop Manager (included on a CD that comes with BlackBerry Smartphone) to install CWDBVPlusLib.alx, CWDBVPlusSyncApp.alx and CWDBViewerPlus.alx files. Please make sure that you have installed Server side wireless Database Viewer Plus. Now you are ready to use Wireless DBViewer Plus Enterprise software.. Important: Install Wireless Database Viewer Plus software on the PC where you can access internet using a browser. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 3

5 2 USING THE WIRELESS DATABASE VIEWER PLUS ON THE BLACKBERRY Run the WDBViewerPlus application by selecting icon on BlackBerry. 2.1 Profile List on BlackBerry Once you finished profile creation on desktop side, use Sync menu on BlackBerry to start synchronization. Once profile is synchronized, it will look similar to the screen below. Figure 1: Database List on BlackBerry Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 4

6 2.2 Menu on Profile List Figure 2: Menu on Profile List To view selected database use this menu. To get the structure of selected database. To open database in Single Record View. To refresh the list of database. To synchronize with desktop manually. To set various preferences such as Default view, Fonts, Date Format etc. Use this Button to send log to Cellica s technical support team, which helps to resolve any problem or issue with the software. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 5

7 2.3 Views available on BlackBerry Wireless DBViewer Plus software on BlackBerry allows to view data in two different views. 1. Multiple Record View (AKA Grid View or Table View) 2. Single Record View Multiple Record View and Single Record View In Multiple Record View, BlackBerry user will be able to view database contents in Column view form. This has many features. Figure 3: Multiple Record View and Single Record View Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 6

8 Figure 4: Menu available on Multiple Record View and Single Record View Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 7

9 There are various useful menu options on this screen: To Add new record in the selected database. To edit record in the selected database. To delete record in the selected database. Find a specific data in your database. This is discussed in the next topic titled Search Contents. This is to improve search performance while searching data in specific column. For large database, you can apply this on a particular column and you can get result faster than the normal search. Make a phone call for the selected field's numeric contents, which will be treated as phone number. Use this option to go to particular record directly. You can see the full contents of the selected field in the Detail View screen. Use this menu to switch from Single Record View to Multiple Record View. Use this menu to switch from Multiple Record View to Single Record View. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 8

10 2.4 Search Contents To search a particular string within the selected database, you can use "Find" and "Find Next" menu options available in both "Multiple Record View" and "Single Record view. Figure 5: Search Data Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 9

11 To search in single column also, you need to enable Search all fields option on Find form then select the required field from the available list of fields. 2.5 Lookup on BlackBerry You can create Look up column on any field in any profile on BlackBerry. You can add a multivalued lookup column by clicking Lookup menu in the Design view. On home screen, select any database in which you want to create Lookup column and select View design menu. Figure 6:Select Lookup column Here select column name on which you want create column and select Lookup menu. Now decide whether you want the lookup column on the values in another table(another Profile) or on a list of values that you type in(custom Lookup Table). Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 10

12 2.5.1 Another Profile Figure 7: Select Lookup option After selecting Another Profile option, you will get the form where you will have Select Profile option, which will show you list of other profiles available on BlackBerry. Here select another profile from which you want to select column for Lookup. After selecting another profile, select column for Lookup. Now data of this selected column will be available as Lookup data. Figure 8: Select Lookup from another profile. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 11

13 In next step, you can enable/disable edit option on selected Lookup column. Select Allow to edit option, if you want to enter data in the selected Lookup column other than the Lookup table data. This option allows you to select data from Lookup data as well as you can enter new data other than Look up values. Select Limit to List option, if you just want to use data available in lookup table data Custom Lookup Table Select Custom Lookup Table option if you want to enter your own values for Lookup data. Use Add button to add new values, Use enter button of your BlackBerry to add values to Lookup data. Figure 9: Enter your Lookup data 2.6 Preferences In Preferences form you can change, default settings of application like default view of your database, Date and Time formats, Decimal spaces, Column width in Table View, etc. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 12

14 Figure 10 : Preferences Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 13

15 Use this menu to select default view when you select any database to open. Use this menu to set the date to view as per your requirement. Use this menu to set the Time to view as per your requirement. Use this menu to view the number of digits after decimal point. This menu will enable your manual sync option. If this option is set to True, you will get Sync menu on home screen. If this option is False then Sync menu will not be available on home screen and software will synchronize automatically according to interval set in Sync Interval option. This will allow you to set automatic sync interval time. You can set interval for days, hours or minutes. Use this menu to set the width of Column in Multiple Row view. This option is to generate log in detail and send to Cellica s Technical support team. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 14

16 3 BLACKBERRY KEYPAD SHORTCUTS 3.1 Screen : Homescreen Keystroke Enter Alt+O Alt+D Alt+L Alt+S Action Taken Open the selected database. Preference. Design View Send Log Start Synchronization. 3.2 Screen : Grid Screen and Record View Screen Keystroke Enter Space Escape/Back ALT+G E U M C D J Alt+A Action Taken Shows Detail View. Jump to other view screen. (i.e. Single Record View to Multiple Record View Screen and vice-aversa.) Close view screen. Pop up Goto Record dialog. Move to First record. Move to Previous record in Record view/ Page Up in Grid View. Move to Next record in Record view/ Page Down in Grid View. Move to Last record. Move to First column. Find Next Pop up Search dialog. 3.3 Screen : Detail View Screen Keystroke Action Taken Alt+S Pop up Search dialog. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 15

17 4 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are questions that our customers routinely ask us or about How can I sync my database automatically? To start synchronization automatically, in preferences form of Wireless DBViewer Plus on your BlackBerry, Set Enable Sync Menu option to False. This will allow you to set Sync Interval. In Sync Interval you can set Day, Hours, and Minutes. From Preferences form, select Sync Interval option. You will get a form where you can set interval of syncing in days, hours and in minutes What time I can set for automatic synchronization? For automatic synchronization, you can set Sync Interval option in Days, Hours, and Minutes How to use Lookup on BlackBerry? Please refer 4.5 in this document to select Lookup column and choosing data option for it. After this you will ready with Lookup table data on particular column. Now when you will Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 16

18 Add/Update particular column just press trackwheel to view Lookup values (For touch screen devices, tap on that column). If you want to add new value and do not want to use Lookup values, directly enter data in that field, do not use trackwheel Whenever I add/edit/delete record on BlackBerry, in Record view I get Red/Cyan color. Cyan color indicates that record synchronization is still in progress. Red color indicates that Record has problem while syncing with desktop database. Status menu shows information related with record syncing process. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 17

19 Figure 11: Status of updated record Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 18

20 5 SUPPORTED DATA TYPES Currently Wireless Database Viewer for BlackBerry supports following data types. Memo, Char, VarChar, VarChar2 Number of types: Byte, Decimal, Integer, Long Integer, Single, Real, Float, Double GUID Date/Time AutoNumber of type: Long Integer Yes/No Hyperlink Currency Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 19

21 6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT Desktop Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server. BlackBerry Smartphone Blackberry OS 4.2 or above. Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 20

22 7 CONTACT US You can use the following addresses to contact us: o Product support support@cellica.com o Sales inquiries sales@cellica.com Wireless Database Viewer Plus for BlackBerry (Enterprise Edition) Page 21