Hi,

I need to add a "Bin" folder to the SlxMobile depoyment, so I can have some DLL's available for my handler in the SlxMobile website.

Example folder:

C:\inetput\wwwroot\SlxMobile\Bin

How/where should I add this new "Bin folder in the Model so it gets deployed to the SlxMobile folder?

Regards,

      Marcos

A bin folder, and DLLs in the bin folder, are server-side code. The mobile client is a 100% client-side app. Written 100% is Javascript. It is not possible to add server-side components to the mobile app.

Is there something specific you're trying to achieve? Maybe I can suggest an alternate route that would fit with the SLX mobile architecture.

Ryan

Hi Ryan,

I added a handler to the SlxMobile website (I can't use SData for this). This handler is called from the javascript code. The handler requires some DLL's, which I added to the "Bin" folder. Placing the handler file in the "products\argos-saleslogix" works fine (i.e. it's copied to the deployment folder). The "Bin" folder does not get copied.

Regards,

      Marcos

Marcos:

  What version of the Mobile Client are you using? And/or how are you adding your Customizations to it?

  In some of the older versions, you need to add the folder and files right under the Support Files folder for the SLX Mobile portal.

  On the newer versions, I would suggest you add your own Module file and include your folder and file there. It will be built and deployed.

Ryan:

  I have used a similar approach to Marcos in the past. I have a DLL that is not SLX Dependant, and it queries Weather Services on the Web. On the Mobile Cient, I added an AJAX call to an .ASHX file that I hosted on the SLX Mobile site, which then utilized my DLL component. I don't think that this necessarily breaks the way that the Mobile portal is supposed to work, but indeed the case can be made that these files could be deployed to a separate portal.

Adding a handler should be ok. To get the bin (and files inside) to deploy you need to modify the release.jsb2 file. See this article for details: http://customerfx.com/pages/crmdeveloper/2013/04/16/bundling-and-deploying-saleslogix-mobile-customizations.aspx

Thank you Ryan! That worked perfectly.

I added the following lines to "resources" section of the "release.jsb2" file: 

resources: [
 ....
 {
     src: '../Bin',
     dest: 'Bin',
     filters: ".*\\.*"
 }]

That way, the "Bin" folder and its content was copied to the deployment folder.

Regards,

      Marcos

Now I see that the filterr should be "filters: ".*". The former fiilter works fine only for files with an extension.