Custom device policies allow you to classify devices in a different way to the standard Device policy tree. For example, you might issue a range of devices to employees in your company. You could then set the type, style and presentation of information available on your intranet to departments within your group, and also to different cross-company teams.
Custom device policies allow you to classify devices in a different way to the standard Device policy tree. For example, you might issue a range of devices to employees in your company. You could then set the type, style and presentation of information available on your intranet to departments within your group, and also to different cross-company teams.
Custom policies must be added to the Custom category after the Master device level. They cannot be added elsewhere in the tree.
The New Policy wizard and the Policy Definition section on the Structure page provide the controls to define a policy; the name, type, available values, and associated meta-information that combine to make a device repository policy.
Policy names must be unique within a repository.
Name, composition and type are defined in the first page of the wizard. You use the Composition drop-down to specify whether the policy will contain a single value, an ordered set of values, or an unordered set of values. You can also define a structure. The Type control defines the type of data that the policy contains.
The table shows the possible combinations, and the commands and controls that will be used to edit the values for the policy.
| Type | Composition | Controls |
|---|---|---|
| Boolean | Single | Checkbox |
| Integer, Range, Text | Single | Edit box |
| Ordered Set | Add, Remove, Up, Down | |
| Unordered Set | Add, Remove | |
| Selection | Single | Drop-down list |
| Ordered Set | Browse, Remove, Up, Down | |
| Unordered Set | Browse, Remove | |
| Emulate Emphasis Tag | Structure | Emulate Emphasis controls |
In policy, layout and theme editors you can choose from a set of policies designed to target a variant or variants at specific devices. You can also create custom policies for this purpose that will be displayed along with standard policies.
These policies must conform to a particular structure to work successfully. To prepare custom policy sets, you give a custom policy a name that will appear in the Device category policy control in the editors. The composition must be 'Single' and the type must be 'Boolean' or 'Selection'. Then you set these values on a number of devices. When you choose the policy name, the set of custom values is available for selection to target those devices.