Using Lobby Pages in Web

The Lobby pages that you access through IFS Enterprise Explorer client, can now be viewed through IFS Lobby Web Access application through a web browser.

Starting IFS Lobby Web Access

To start working with IFS Lobby Web Access, you need to log on to the application. You can start IFS Lobby Web Access using either the externally accessible link or using the web deployed IFS Lobby start page and filling the Login page.

When you log on to IFS Lobby Web Access, you must enter your application user name and password for authentication. In addition you can specify the language you want to use the application in by selecting it from the list of available languages.

Note that if you have previously logged on to IFS Lobby Web Access, the last used user name and language are shown in the Login page. Click Login to log in to the application.

Figure 1: IFS Lobby Web Access - Login page

Using IFS Lobby Web Access

Once you log in to the application, you will be redirected to the Home page named Lobbies. The Lobbies page contains a list of all existing Lobby Pages you can view.

IFS Lobby Web Access main menu can be retrieved by clicking on the main menu button in the top left hand corner.

Figure 2: IFS Lobby Web Access - Lobbies Page

The following actions are available in the Lobby Web Access (LWA) main menu:

• Lobbies: Use this menu item to get to Lobbies page.
• Recently Used Lobbies: The pages you have visited most recently are available as quickly accessible menu items in the main menu. At most 10 items will be visible in this list.
• Clear Cache: IFS LWA keeps pages in the browser cache for quick access. But if there are any changes (e.g., Personalizing a Lobby Page. Read more about Personalizing Lobby pages.)  done in the original pages after having accessed them from LWA, the changes will only be visible once you clear the browser cache.
• About: The About Us dialog will show the LWA version number and copyright information.
• Log out: You will be logged out of the application.

Lobbies

The Lobbies page contains a list of all existing Lobby pages. Clicking the search icon available at the upper right hand corner will open up the search filter. Use this to search for Lobby pages, e.g. type “manager” to search for all pages having “manager” as part of page Title, Name, Author or Keywords.

Figure 3: IFS Lobbies - Filter applied

Click on a page to open it.

Using Lobby Page View

Figure 4: IFS Lobby Web Access - Example Lobby Page

Lobby Web Access pages will display data elements as same as what you see in IFS Enterprise Explorer Lobby. However it will not be possible to navigate from a Lobby to a form, as lobbies in IFS Enterprise Explorer do.

The following actions are available in a Lobby page:

• Double click an element to zoom and it will be expanded to fill the screen. This is useful with matrix elements, lists and charts, which might have a lot of details.
• Lobby elements may be defined with parameters to control which data to show, e.g. Company, Site, Project etc. Use the Page Parameters dialog box to select which parameters to use in the page. You can get to the Page Parameters dialog box by clicking on the page parameter area below the page title.

Figure 5: IFS Lobby Web Access - Page Parameters dialog box