Local date and time on mobile device

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Is it possible to synchronize device's local date and time with MI server time during synchronization process (MI 7.0)?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Piotr,

There is a way in which you can push the server time to all the devices.

This can be done using AGENTS.

For time you will have to use the TIME_AGENT.

I recommend using this for your problem.

You will find more details in the following help link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/6d/1d104202795b33e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

All you have to do is to sent the AGENT_MODE to ON.

After the parameter is set in the client, the server time is set on every sync.

This should solve your problem.

Let me know if you need any help.

Best Regards,

Karthik Setty

[Energy4U GmbH|http://www.energy4u.org]

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Karthik,

This is exactly what I was looking for.

Unfortunately it didn't work for me (PC client) and in the thread below it is said it's only available for PDA MI clients.

Thanks for the hint anyway.

Best Regards,

Piotr

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Piotr,

Unfortunately you are right, Agents works only with PDA clients.

Best Regards,

Karthik Setty

[Former Member]

I had same problem with our mobile devices, the clock would always run faster\slower and get out of sync by a significant amount from server time.

So we modified a script given by Motorola\Symbol to synchronize the time and date against an HTTP server upon each synchronization.

Our mobile devices uses a program called iDockIt to establish an Ethernet connection.

It has the ability to execute an application when a connection is established, so it would execute the script upon connection.

Not sure if you use iDockIt or some Symbol device but that's how I dealt with the issue.

[Former Member]

Dear Piotr Janus,

There is no standard method/ functionality, but you can write custom code to achieve the same. Refer to the NWDS MDK MI Synchronization api for manually calling synchronization and hence, write custom code to achieve the required functionality.

The built code can be packaged as an add on and deployed to all your devices. If you are not able to get what I am saying, you need a strong/good java developer with MI experience to achieve the required functionality.

Please mark the question as answered if my post solved your query.

Regards,

Veera

[Former Member]

Hi Veera,

Thanks for the information. I hoped for some standard configuration parameters that could be easily set.