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aSc Mobile Timetables
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Contents:
Downloading aSc Mobile Timetables to your phone
Prerequisites:
- You will need Java & Wap enabled phone. See
documentation to your phone whether it supports Java
and Wap (most new mobile phones support Java).
- You need a configured Wap browser. Please contact
your network operator on information how to
configure Wap in your phone. Wap is usually for free
(there is no need to register for this
service). Your operator can send you SMS message
that will automatically configure your phone to use
Wap.
- You need to know internet address where your
school's timetable is located on internet. This
address is similar to normal web address. For
testing purposes you can use our demo of mobile
timetables at:
http://www.asctt.com/mobile/. You can try aSc
Mobile Timetables for free from this address,
however you will be able to view only our demo
timetables.
Installing:
Note: Download procedure depends on your phone's
manufacturer and type. It might be slightly different
from the one described below. Please consult your
phone's documentation or vendor.
- Open Wap browser from your phone's menu. (on
Nokia phones, you will find it under "Services"
menu).
- If you have Wap browser opened, choose "Go to
address" menu option (or similar).
- Type in address where your school's timetable is
located and choose "Go" or "Ok".
- If address was pointing to wap page, this page
will be displayed on your phone's screen. On this
page you should find link to real download of Mobile
Timetables. Follow this link.
If address was pointing to real download, just go
directly to step 5.
- Download should start. It might take up to 2
minutes. Wait till it ends. During the download you
might be asked to confirm download, or some other
download-related questions depending on your phone's
type.
- After download has finished, close Wap browser.
- Go to "Applications" menu in your phone. Here
you should find new application called "aSc
Timetables".
- Choose "Open" to launch aSc Mobile Timetables.
Using aSc
Mobile Timetables
After you have downloaded aSc Mobile Timetables to
your phone, you can launch it from "Applications"
menu. Please note that your phone does not need to be
connected to network when you use Mobile Timetables.
You don't pay any additional charges to your network
operator for using Mobile Timetables. You pay only for
first download.
After you launch aSc Mobile Timetables, splash
screen will be displayed showing name of your school.
After few seconds, you will get to main menu.
Main menu contains these options:
- My timetable - this will bring you
directly to "your" timetable. But first you have to
configure which timetable is "yours". You can do it
in "Settings" menu.
- Forms - this will show list of all forms
in your school. After you pick one, you will get to
its timetable.
- Teachers - here you can view teachers'
timetables.
- Classrooms - here you can view
classrooms' timetables. This option can be missing
if there are no classrooms defined.
- Settings - here you can configure various
options and set "My timetable".
- About Timetables - here you can find
version and registration information.
Viewing timetable
You can move/scroll through timetable with arrow
keys. If your phone does not have all four arrow keys,
you can also use keys 2,4,6,8 to move cursor. If your
timetable is multi-week, you can use key 5 to switch
between weeks. Current week number is shown in upper
left corner.
When you move cursor to some position where there
is a lesson, you can show "Details". Here you will
find details about the selected lesson. If there was
more than one lesson on the selected position, you
will have first to choose which lesson's details you
want to view. (There might be multiple lessons on a
single position if you are viewing timetable of form
that is divided into groups). Settings menu
contains these options:
- My timetable - here you can select which
timetable is "yours". You can pick one of teachers'
timetables or forms' timetables. If you pick some
form's timetable and this form is divided to groups,
you can also choose group(s) you wish to view.
- Font of card - You can select size of
font that is used to display cards in timetable.
- Font of header - You can select size of
font that is used to display day names and period
numbers.
- Vertical and horizontal zoom - Here you
can select size of single cell in timetable. Size is
defined proportional to size of font.
- Brightness - You can increase brightness
of displayed cards. This is useful if some cards are
too dark to read text on them.
Exporting mobile timetables to your school's web page
for download Prerequisites
You will need:
- Public web server (server that is accessible
only from inside of your school is not enough
(intranet))
- Write access to this server (e.g. ftp)
- Web server must have properly configured mime
types for jad, jar and wml extensions (see below).
- Registration code for aSc Mobile Timetables
(you will get it after you purchase aSc Mobile
Timetables)
Configuring mime types
Here are the mime types
that need to be configured on your web server.
| File extension |
Mime type |
| jad |
text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor |
| jar |
application/java-archive |
| wml |
text/vnd.wap.wml |
Most web servers have wml type already
configured, so you will need to configure only
jad/jar. Please consult your web server
administrator on how to configure mime types on
your web server. For Apache web servers you need
only to add these two lines at the end of
"httpd.conf" configuration file:
AddType text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jad
AddType application/java-archive jar
Export procedure
Start aSc Timetables application and open your
school's timetable. Go to menu "File - Export -
Mobile". You might be asked to enter registration code
at this moment. Please enter your registration code.
You will need to do this only once.
After you have registered Mobile Timetables, "Save
as" dialog will appear. Usually it is not possible to
export directly to your web server, so you will have
to save exported files first to some temporary
directory. So please choose some directory and file
name, e.g. "timetable.jad" and click "Save".
Two files will be created: "timetable.jad" and
"timetable.jar". You will have to upload these two
files to some public directory of your web server, so
it will be accessible through some public internet
address, e.g.:
"http://myschool.country/mobile/timetable.jad". Jad
file address is important, users can download mobile
timetables by typing this address to wap browser of
their phone.
It is also recommended that you will create some
wap page from which users can download mobile
timetables. Here is a sample "timetable.wml" file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<head>
<meta name="character-set=windows-1250" content="charset"/>
</head>
<card id="card1" title="Myschool wap page">
<p>
Welcome to Myschool's wap page!<br/>
Here you can download our timetable:<br/>
<a href="timetable.jad">Download</a><br/>
</p>
</card>
</wml>
Upload this file to the same directory as you have
uploaded "timetable.jad" and "timetable.jar".
Last step is to give
"http://myschool.country/mobile/timetable.wml" address
to your school's students and teachers, so they can
enter it in wap browser of their phones and download
timetable.
If you have any questions/problems, please contact
us at
timetables@asc.sk.
aSc Timetables Team. |
