About installing Mobile Simulator
Mobile Simulator allows you to preview content in Content Manager Explorer and SiteEdit as it is displayed in a mobile device. The procedure for getting Mobile Simulator up and running is summarized below:
- Installation overview
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Installing Mobile Simulator involves performing the following tasks:
- Read the prerequisites
- Run the Mobile Simulator installer and specify:
- the TCM URI of the Target Type of your SiteEdit-enabled Staging Web site so that you can use Mobile Simulator in SiteEdit.
- the host name of the Web server where mobile content is rendered for your staging environment (if you are using NetBiscuits, this is the NetBiscuits proxy).
- Make sure that the Type of Publications intended for the mobile channel is set to
Mobile. - Create a Mobile Simulator Metadata Schema and apply it to Publications so that you can specify a different Mobile Preview URL for different Publications.
- Configure
Phones.xmlto specify which mobile devices you want to be able to preview content. - Configure the
MobilePreview.configto change settings you specified when you ran the installer.
- Installation overview (NetBiscuits)
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Installing Mobile Simulator for NetBiscuits requires additional configuration:
- Create a Custom Application in NetBiscuits to serve mobile content to SiteEdit and Content Manager Explorer.
- Configure the
<simulatorlink>element in theMobilePreview.configto point to the NetBiscuits Custom Application.