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MindTouch Mobile

    This is not a commercially supported skin and isn't compatible with MindTouch commercial hosted offering.

     

    Status

    MindTouch Mobile 0.9 is now available for download and installation!

    Version: MindTouch Mobile 0.9
    Date: 11/15/2008

    Get MindTouch Mobile

    • Available from SourceForge: dekimobile.tar.gz
    • This does not currently work on Windows/IIS installations. It has only been tested on Linux + Apache installations.

    What is MindTouch Mobile?

    MindTouch Mobile is an iPhone-optimized skin which is accessible through the iPhone web browser. It is geared to help readers consume and share data inside MindTouch.

    A demo site has been set-up which is linked to this developer wiki at http://m.mindtouch.com/

    Sample screenshots

    iPhone Simulator001.jpg
    Viewing a page: Use the table of contents to navigate through a page's contents
    iPhone Simulator002.jpg
    Navigate through associations: Use tags to associate pages to find related pages
     
    iPhone Simulator003.jpg
    Navigation through search: You still have access to the Lucene search for quickly locating files inside MindTouch
     iPhone-Simulator005.jpg
    Notes: Got a quick thought after reading a page? Send and receive public notes (using the MindTouch comment API) to individuals
     iPhone Simulator007.jpg
    Send notes: Send public notes (like Twitter) from the iPhone interface (uses MindTouch comments API)

     

    MindTouch Mobile ... how can I help?

    mobile-blog-picture.jpgMindTouch Mobile is being released to the open source community under the GPL license. You can always subscribe to our SVN branch (https://svn.mindtouch.com/source/pub...dekimobile/app) to pick up the latest versions. If you'd like to contribute, please contact royk@mindtouch.com. There's a lot of work to be done in cleaning up the code, consolidating logic, and adding support for other mobile clients (Blackberry!).

    Installing MindTouch Mobile

    Configuring Apache

    Because MindTouch Mobile runs on a separate host (auto-detection is not yet built-in to MindTouch), you must set-up a virtualhost for MindTouch Mobile. Make sure you add the proper DNS entries and update Apache to accept the new hostname. A sample Apache configuration file is inside the package as dekimobile.vhost (also available in SVN). Be sure you match up the ServerName and the DocumentRoot paths to wherever you install MindTouch Mobile!

    MindTouch Mobile application set-up

    Copy config.new.php to config.php and update all relevant fields to connect to your MindTouch instance. 

    Configuring the API

    The last step is having the API accept your MindTouch Mobile hostname so all requests can be routed correctly. Most MindTouch installs have a catch-all configuration, so no modifications may be necessary. First try to hit your MindTouch Mobile site via your browser; if it throws API errors, then try configuring these values. 

    If you go into /etc/dekiwiki/mindtouch.deki.startup.xml, find the config block which applies to your site. It might look like this:

    <config id="wiki.developer.mindtouch.com">
        <host>wiki.developer.mindtouch.com</host>
        <host>m.mindtouch.com</host>
        <db-server>MYSQL_SERVER</db-server>
        <db-port>MYSQL_PORT</db-port>
        <db-user>MYSQL_USER</db-user>
        <db-password hidden="true">MYSQL_PASSWORD</db-password>
    </config>

    All you have to do to add a hostname alias is to add another <host> value.

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    What about Nokia phones (the majority in the world)? Or should I say Symbian S60...
    Posted 10:51, 17 Nov 2008
    We'd like to extend this skin to work with all types of phones - we've just put the effort into the iPhone interface. If you'd like to get involved to help drive that type of skin, please contact me!
    Posted 16:11, 18 Nov 2008
    It might be nice if someone put some more details into these instructions - "update all relevant fields to connect to your Deki instance", for example, is a bit vague.
    Posted 17:37, 21 Jan 2009
    The mobile-optimized skin is nice, but what would be even better is an iPhone application. Keeping this web-based theoretically means more people can use it on phones other than the iPhone, but the reality is that the screen and/or interface on most other phone is just not capable of making web-based applicaitons very useful. The iPhone has proven this and it is why Microsoft, Nokia, Google, and RIM are scrambling to catch up with their own "app stores". Besides the likely more widespread use and useability of a Mindtouch iPhone app over a web-based version, it could also generate additional revenue. You could create a free "enterprise" version of an iPhone app for customers using Mindtouch Standard, Enterprise, or OnDemand and charge either $0.99 or $1.99 for those using Mindtouch Core or Express.
    Posted 21:39, 3 May 2009
    I've found I can view the standard site quite well on a Blackberry Bold using the Fiesta skin, however I must be logged on as a Viewer only. If I have contributor rights all the extra JS is too much for the Blackberry.

    To btheato, your comment above makes no sense. 1) I don't see any benefit of an iPhone app over a well optimized skin - the iPhone has a good browser, an app would just be duplicating most of the existing browser.
    2) Your attitude of "The iphone is the only one that can do it so lets create an app so your're locked into the iphone" is ridiculous. Effort spent on a well optimised skin will not be wasted when other mobile devices improve their browsers.
    Posted 01:47, 2 Dec 2009
    @RoyK @Howleyda I'm wondering if Volantis Mobility Server http://bit.ly/7nurvJ (or similar, if it exists...) might be the right tool to manage the rendering issues across multiple devices? It says it supports 5700 devices for the community edition and 5900 (all) for the pro version. Community version GPL'd... AS I understand it, you'd need a skin that had the fragments approach that the VMS demands, but other than that it seems fairly straightforward... Was thinking you could merge this effort with your current beech experimental skin which I'm following with a great deal of interest!
    Posted 08:15, 12 Dec 2009
    Hi,
    I do not understand the installation instructions one bit. Has anyone succeeded in doing this and have any notes they could add.
    A step by step installation guide would be nice.

    Thanks
    Posted 14:24, 13 Jan 2010
    I'm having problems as well installing on W2k3 with IIS6. Phew...any help is appreciated.
    Posted 05:12, 24 Jan 2010
    Blackberry is not supported and running this add on is not supported on W2k3 with IIS6.
    Posted 14:55, 5 Apr 2010
    Just seeing if anyone is working on getting this working with Win / IIS
    Posted 10:09, 25 Jun 2010
    hi.
    I can't go forward to mobile deki because i cant understand how to install..
    step 1. configure apache is success
    step 2. MindTouch Mobile application set-up (config.php)
    i don't know how to set?
    step 3. Configuring the API
    i don't know how to set?

    show me the step by step with examples such as picture. please.. edited 18:18, 29 Nov 2010
    Posted 18:18, 29 Nov 2010
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