It
is often a good idea to create special views that show information in a
more compact way to enable mobile device users to see that information
more clearly and to more comfortably navigate in it (see Figure 1).
SharePoint
attempts to identify whether a device is a mobile device and then
switches to a default mobile view that is optimized for that purpose.
Nonmobile devices see the view as if it is a regular view. Each mobile
view has a special URL that the mobile device is redirected to.
To specify that a view
should have a mobile URL, scroll to the Mobile section in the view
creation page and expand it by using the plus sign next to the section
title. You can create a view and specify it to be the default mobile
view for the list (see Figure 2), or you can just leave it as another new view in the list.
Additional options you can
set for the mobile view are how many items to show (because you may
want to trim a list for a mobile view) and what column to display as
the title in the mobile view.
If you don’t have a mobile
device yourself, and you want to see what the view looks like after it
has been created, you must manually type the URL that SharePoint
creates for the mobile view. To find out what that URL is, go into the
view modification page and scroll down to the Mobile section. The URL
for the mobile view appears there as text (see Figure 3).
To learn how to modify a view, see the following section.
Tip
To see what a whole site would
look like from a mobile device, you use the second URL that appears
when editing a mobile view. That URL is the link to the mobile view of
the home page of the site.
