3.3 Mobile Device Access—Default Settings

Path: Port 8443 Filr Admin Console System > Mobile Applications

Table 3-3 Using the Configure Mobile Applications dialog

Field, Option, or Button	Information and/or Action
Allow mobile applications to:
Access Filr	Select this to allow access to Filr through Filr mobile apps.
Cache the user’s password	Select this to let users enable the Save Password option when logging in to the Filr site through a Filr mobile app.
Allow files to be added to the Downloads area for offline access	Select this to let users download files from Filr to mobile devices. IMPORTANT:If you don’t want users downloading files, make sure that you also disable downloading through web browsers. Downloaded files can be viewed in offline mode by accessing the Downloads section in the app. Users are responsible for the security of downloaded files. See Encrypting Downloaded Files in the Micro Focus Filr Mobile App.
Force PIN Code	Select this to force users running version 2.0 and later mobile apps to have a 4-digit access code set on their devices for accessing Filr See Configuring a 4-Digit Passcode in the Micro Focus Filr Mobile App.
Cut/Copy	Select this to let users cut or copy data from the Filr mobile app so that the data can be pasted into third-party applications.
Screen capture (affects Android only)	Select this to let users take a screen capture while inside the Filr application. IMPORTANT:As noted in the option name, this only applies to Android devices. iOS users can always take screen captures.
Disable applications on rooted or jail-broken devices	Select this to prevent users from running the Filr mobile app on devices that have been rooted or jail-broken.
Open in: drop-down list	Click the drop-down list and select the option that is best for your organization as described in the rows below. This controls whether users can open files in third-party apps through Filr. For example, a user views a file in Filr, opens and modifies the file in a document editing app, then saves the file back to the Filr app. iOS calls this Open In functionality; Android devices refer to it as Share or Send To. IMPORTANT:For MobileIron device management, the following points apply: In almost all cases the Filr and MobileIron settings must be consistent with each other. The exception is if you want only the MobileIron-managed devices to have Open In capabilities. To cause this behavior, Enable Open In in MobileIron. Disable Open In in Filr.
Disabled option	This prevents users from opening files in Filr using third-party applications.
All applications option	This lets users open files in Filr using any third-party application.
Whitelist option	This opens two Whitelists (Android and iOS) of third-party apps that users are allowed to open files into. IMPORTANT: Only Android package names and iOS bundle IDs are valid list entries. To get an Android app package name: Install the Package Name Viewer app from the Google Play store. This app displays the package name for each app that is currently installed on the device. To find the bundle ID for an iOS app: Synchronize the app to iTunes from your device. In the iTunes library, open the Mobile Applications folder. For iTunes on Mac, the default location is your Home directory at: ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications/ For iTunes On Windows, the default location is C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications/ Create a copy of the app’s file, and re-save the copy as a .zip file. Unzip the newly created .zip file. You now see a folder by the name of the application name. Locate the iTunesMetadata.plist file within the folder and open it in a text editor. The bundle ID is the string displayed below the softwareVersionBundleid key within the file.
Mobile synchronization
Synchronize every X Minutes	Specify how many minutes the mobile apps wait after a desktop synchronization ends before they start another synchronization with Filr. Default=15 minutes. You can use this to control the synchronization load that the Filr mobile app puts on Filr.
OK button	Click this to save your changes. Current user sessions are not affected. To see changes, users must log in to a new session.
Cancel button	Click this to cancel the changes you have made.