what is the significance of Image Precedence,Screen sets and Style Precedence in syclo agentry?

[sravanthi_polu]

Hi Experts,

Can any one explain me the significance of Image Precedence,Screen sets and Style Precedence configuration settings files in agentry server.Is there any dependency among  these three files.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Sravanthi Polu

[jason_latko · Accepted solution]

Sravanthi,

Those files are used for customizing the order in which screens, images and styles are downloaded to the various supported Agentry client devices.

Let's look at a modified ImagePrecedence.ini:

[iPhone]

1=iPhone

2=iPad

3=Android_Normal

4=Android_Small

5=Android_Large

6=Android_XLarge

7=PPC

8=PPC_Scanner

9=PPC_Landscape

10=PPC_Landscape_Scanner

11=PPC_Square

12=Palm

13=Palm_Scanner

14=RIM

15=HPC

16=HPC_Scanner

17=Web

Above is the iPhone section of the file.  How does this work?  When an iPhone client connects to an Agentry Server, it will search for image definitions to download in the order specified from top to bottom, and will only download the first one it finds.  In the Eclipse editor for your Agentry application, it is possible to create multiple images with the same name, each tied to a different platform.  In our above case, the client will look for images defined for "iPhone" first, then "iPad", then "Android_Normal" and so on.  If it can't find a platform specific image, it will default to and download the "All" platforms image.

Normally you wont need to customize these files, but this gives you the flexibility to do so.  You can move entries up/down the list to modify the way the images, styles and screens are downloaded for each client platform.

Jason Latko - Senior Product Developer at SAP