Creating a new object when working with another

Procedure

The Mobile Devices Administration Center allows you to create new synchronization objects for a related object without disturbing your workflow. For example, you might be editing the characteristics of a group named "Visiting Nurses" and realize that you need to add a new nurse who just started work. Without leaving the Edit Group notebook, click Create on the Users page to open the Create User notebook, add the new nurse and then assign the nurse to the Visiting Nurses group.

Related concepts

• Mobile Devices Administration Center and synchronization objects
• What is the Mobile Devices Administration Center?
• The Mobile Devices Administration Center interface
• What is a synchronization object?
• Where synchronization objects are stored
• Information displayed in the contents pane

Related tasks

• Starting the Mobile Devices Administration Center
• Creating synchronization objects
• Refreshing the view
• Filtering the contents pane
• Editing a synchronization object
• Deleting an object

The administration process

If you are just getting started with administration and have not yet created any objects, follow these steps to set up synchronization:

Procedure

1. Think about the mobile users within your organization and plan their synchronization needs. What data do they need to access? What applications do they use? The answers to questions like these help you determine how many synchronization groups you need and which users will be associated with each group. This step is explained in 1.
2. Within the Administrator, create groups according to your plan in step 1.

   See Creating a data synchronization group for more information about creating groups.

3. Create and assign users to each group in one of two ways:
   • Import existing user definitions.

     If you already have multiple groups set up within your organization, you might be able to import the users assigned to these groups into the Administrator and automatically assign them to groups. See Importing user definitions from another source for more information.

   • Create new users in the Administrator and assign these users to groups.
4. Define replication subscriptions for each table and file that the members of the group need to access. See Creating a data synchronization group for more information.
5. To allow a group to access the tables and files that they need, create one or more subscription sets that reference the subscriptions that you created in step 4. See Enabling groups to access their data and files for more information.

Related concepts

• Using the Mobile Devices Administration Center
• Concluding the administration process
• Evalutating the characteristics of your mobile users
• What is data synchronization?
• Data set up and replication
• What is a subscription set?