Mobile App Academy Recording - October 13th - Getting Started with Mobile Localization

[Charles Steiner]

Getting Started with Mobile Localization

Mobile App Academy is a bi-weekly live building series focused on managing and building mobile apps in real time. We have product experts demonstrate concepts, provide guidance, and answer your questions in a live setting.

Today we have a guest speaker to walk us through getting started with Mobile Localization for the ServiceNow mobile apps. Stephane Lalonde is a ServiceNow Platform Architect and will first talk through the basic components, then configure localization on mobile using two approaches. We finish the session with Q&A from our live attendees.

Featured Experts:

David Ha Mobile Platform Senior Product Manager	Fu Ho Mobile Platform Solution Architect	Stephane Lalonde ServiceNow Platform Architect

 Q&A during live broadcast:

Q: For notification links is there a way to have a single link direct to the web platform if clicked from desktop or to open the Now/Agent app if the link in the notification is clicked from a mobile phone?
A: You can generate a deep link to mobile but it can only go to a screen or form screen. In addition, it must be clicked on a mobile device.
https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/paris/server_legacy/MobileDeepLinkGeneratorAPI#MDLG-getScreenLink_S_O

Q: Are there plans to extend deep link in future releases?
A: There are no plans to extend deep link feature but I’ve seen this request before. We encourage customers to submit enhancement request in our idea portal.
https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=ideas_list&sysparm_module_id=enhancement_requests

Q: IE - require deep links to be generated for the notifications but if they are opened in a desktop browser the could just open the record if the link was for a form screen (since the form deep link has the sys_id of the record)

A: A URL is able to map to the correct path in Classic because it web while Agent/Now is native.

Q: How do you display your iPhone in real time on your desktop?
A: This is a feature apart of the native Quicktime app on Apple computers. For more information see this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-mirror-iphone-to-mac

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Resources & Helpful Links

Mobile Hierarchy
Mobile App Academy Playlist
Check out the ‘Getting Started with ServiceNow Mobile Apps landing page to see the following:

• Learn how to roll out your apps with the deployment playbook
• How to get started with your mobile Implementation white paper
• Learn about best practice mobile design principles to create consumer grade experiences
• Mobile migration guide
• Get your hands dirty learning basic developer training with Mobile Studio