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Same scanner profile for all android scanner but with different URLs linked in soti surf

FJ
Florian Janke

Hi,

sorry for the bad title.
Can I use the same scanner profile for all my Zebra MC3300X, but with different applications running depending on which scanner it is. I have them sorted per application in different organizational units.
I have soti surf running on all of them and different web applications.
I don't want to give the user the option to choose which web application to start. I find it not practical to have 6 profiles just for different web links we use on the scanners, but with the same basic configuration
I have the newest version of Mobicontrol running and also the newest Android Enterprise agent.
Are there best practices I'm missing or maybe a setting i can use for this?

In any case, thanks for reading and your help
Best Regards
Florian

soti surf mobicontrol zebra mc3300x
3 years ago
Android
ANSWERS
RC
Raymond Chan
3 years ago

Hi Florian,

Assuming you have six groups of Zebra MC3300X running corresponding six different web apps with different URL's on Soti Surf browser, you can define a custom-attribute of "String" type (say with name "webappurl", and the corresponding custom-attribute macro will be %CustomAttr:webappurl% ) to be included in a dynamic URL in the single common Soti Surf profile payload shared by all six groups of devices.  See the related online manual page at https://soti.net/mc/help/v15.6/en/console/data/sotisurf/dynamic_url.htm

The custom-attribute value can be set either interactively one by one at the device-level, or in bulk with CSV file import, or at device-group-level if the six groups of devices have already been assigned systematically into six disjoint MobiControl device-groups.

FJ
Florian Janke
3 years ago

I'll get right on testing, thanks!

FJ
Florian Janke
3 years ago

For some reason, the weburl doesn't use the custom attribute.
I've added the attribute in the global settings tab and gave it a value(scanner_1005) in my device group.
Added the weburl like this https://sap/%CustomAttr:saplink%
It doesn't load the weburl with the value of the attribute.



Edit: Screenshot attached.
Edit2:changed screenshot

I've also tried to just use the customattribut but that also doesn't work

RC
Raymond Chan
3 years ago

What the the version and build numbers of your Soti Surf app and Mobicontrol server?

Have you enabled the option for the custom-attribute value to be sent/propagated to targeted device?  To confirm that the value is available on the device, you can use send script action to execute test script such as

    log -i "CA value = %CustomAttr:yourCA%" 

to see if the correct value get displayed in the device log tab in the web-console.

FJ
Florian Janke
3 years ago

Hi Raymond
I'm using Version: 15.6.1.1048
and soti Surf 15.6.0 Build 7
doesn't seem to be getting the value.
attached a screenshot

EDIT: Send to Device is active

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GPMOD@SOTI
3 years ago

Hi Florian, 

Thanks for posting on SOTI Pulse and thanks Raymond for responding to the post. 

I would suggest putting all URLs in one profile and assign to the device, we can also take into consideration that 6 profiles are not a lot that causes any issue with the device or server. 


Thank you. 

Kind regards,

Technical Support | SOTI Inc. |1.905.624.9828 | support@soti.net | www.soti.net |

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