Infor CRM SLX Mobile

argos-saleslogix utilized the argos-sdk to form the Infor CRM SLX Mobile application. It includes list, detail, and edit views for most of the core CRM entities, such as Accounts, Contacts, Tickets, Leads, Opportunities, and Activities. Additional entities are available if the back office extensions (BOE) integration is enabled.

API/Documentation

The Infor CRM SLX Mobile team maintains an "argos" documentation site available here. Additional guides are also available on the argo-sdk wiki. A sample customization is available here.

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Installation From AA (Application Architect) Bundle

• Download the latest mobile release from the Infor Extreme Portal
• Extract the zip
• There should be yet another zip file that ends with "VFS.zip". Example: "Infor Mobile v3.4 for 8.0 and later VFS.zip". Extract this zip as well.
• Once extracted, go into the Portal/SlxMobile/SourceFiles directory
• Copy the argos-sdk and products folders to your development location, such as C:\code\mobile
• In IIS (or your favorite web server), set the root directory to C:\code\mobile
• Open your browser to the URL your web server is listening on: (http://localhost:8000/products/argos-saleslogix/index-dev.html)

The AA bundle does not include index-dev-*.html files. You can copy your product's index-dev-*.html file (if doing a customization) into products/argos-saleslogix or use the out of the box one located here.

Installation From Source

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• Grunt

Install Dependencies

The package.json file in the root of argos-saleslogix contains a list of dependencies, required for building from source. Here is how to install them:

• Open a command prompt in the argos-saleslogix directory
• run npm install

Once dependencies are installed, here are a list of commands available:

• npm run test - Runs the unit tests using Jasmine. Requires grunt cli.
• npm start - Local development web server. Open your browser to http://localhost:8000/. Copy scripts/default.config.json to scripts/config.json to override the port and/or the SData host.
• npm run lint - Lints the src folder. We use the Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide.
• npm run less - Compiles .less stylesheets into CSS. Requires grunt cli.
• npm run build - "Transpiles" the src folder and outputs to src-out. The src folder contains ECMAScript2015 code. The src-out folder will contain ECMAScript 5 code that older browsers will execute.
• npm run watch - Watches the src folder for changes and runs npm run build and npm run lint automatically when files are changed.

Notice To Customizers

Starting in mobile 3.4, the index-dev-*.html files no longer point to src, instead they point to src-out. The src folder now contains ECMAScript2015 (ES6) source code. A build step is required to populate the src-out. You will need to run npm run build from the argos-saleslogix directory if working from git.

Clone repository

1. Open a command prompt.

2. change to the base directory where you cloned Argos SDK, eg:

   cd C:\code\mobile
   

3. Execute the following commands (clone command shown with READ-ONLY URL; if you are a commiter, use the appropriate Read+Write URL).

   cd products
   
   git clone  git://github.com/SageSalesLogix/argos-saleslogix.git
   

Setup and run the application in "debug" mode

1. On your web server, create a Virtual Directory (IIS6), an Application (IIS7), or an Alias (Apache), or functional equivalent, called mobile, pointing to the base directory where you cloned Argos SDK, eg:

   cd C:\code\mobile
   

2. Ensure you have a MIME type setup for .less files. Example using web.config in IIS7:

   <system.webServer>
       	<staticContent>
           		<mimeMap fileExtension=".less" mimeType="text/css" />
       	</staticContent>
   	</system.webServer>
   

3. In your browser, navigate to the path /mobile/products/argos-saleslogix/index-dev.html on your web server, eg:

   http://localhost/mobile/products/argos-saleslogix/index-dev.html
   

Building A Release Version From Source

Requirements

If building on windows, the argos-sdk tools folder contains a binary called JsBit that will read the release.jsb2 file and combine/minify the required resources. If building from Linux or OSX, Mono is required to execute JsBit.

Build scripts

• Change to the argo-sdk directory, and execute the build script there: cd ..\argos-sdk and then build\release.cmd (./build/release.sh for non Windows)
• Copy the contents of argos-sdk\deploy to a common shared directory, such as C:\code\mobile\deploy
• Change back to the argos-saleslogix directory and run build\release.cmd
• Copy the contents of argos-saleslogix\deploy to the same shared deploy directory used in the sdk step (C:\code\mobile\deploy)
• Copy the deploy folder to your web server

Deploying

Steps

1. Open the deploy folder for the product, eg:

   mobile\deploy\argos-saleslogix
   

2. Copy the entire contents of the product's deploy folder (eg: mobile\deploy\argos-saleslogix) to a location on the webserver that will be hosting the mobile content (hereafter, mobile server).

3. On the mobile server, create a Virtual Directory (IIS6), an Application (IIS7), or an Alias (Apache), or functional equivalent, called mobile, pointing to the directory where you copied the content to. In the recommended configuration, on the same server where SData is being hosted, this mapping should be at the same level as the sdata mapping.

4. If SData is being hosted on a different server than the mobile host, CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing), must be enabled on the SData server. You can find documentation for setting it up on IIS at: Setting-Up-CORS.

Customization

• You can customize the product without modifying the core views.
• See the argos-sample customization module for a set of customization scenario examples.