After developing your Visualforce Mobile pages, test them in the mobile application to be sure they
display and function as expected. To find out how to install and run
the mobile application on a BlackBerry smartphone or iPhone, refer
to the topic titled “Installing Salesforce Classic Mobile” in the Salesforce Classic Mobile User Guide for BlackBerry or the Salesforce Classic Mobile User Guide for iPhone.
If you don’t have an iPhone or BlackBerry smartphone that
meets the Salesforce Classic Mobile device requirements, you can run the mobile application on
an iPhone or BlackBerry simulator. To find out how to install and
run the simulators, refer to the topic titled “Mobile Device
Simulators” in the Salesforce Classic Mobile Implementation Guide.
You might need to perform some of the following management tasks
while testing your Visualforce Mobile pages:
- Synchronize Data
- The mobile application polls Salesforce for
schema changes and new data every twenty minutes. In come cases, you
might want to synchronize data after editing your mobile configuration
or creating a record in Salesforce so
that the changes show up in the application immediately. You can force
the mobile application to synchronize with Salesforce.
- To find out how to synchronize your data from an iPhone, refer
to the topic titled “Synchronize Data” in the Salesforce Classic Mobile User Guide for iPhone. To find out how to synchronize
your data from a BlackBerry smartphone, refer to the topic titled
“Refreshing Data” in the Salesforce Classic Mobile User Guide for BlackBerry.
- Test Different User Accounts
- Developers often have several active user accounts in their Salesforce organization.
If you already activated a user account in Salesforce Classic Mobile, you have to deactivate it before you can register a different user
account.
- If you're using a mobile device to test your Visualforce Mobile pages instead of a simulator, you can deactivate your account
from the mobile application. To find out how to deactivate your Salesforce account
from an iPhone, refer to the topic titled “Erase Data”
in the Salesforce Classic Mobile User Guide for iPhone. To find out how to deactivate
your account from a BlackBerry smartphone, refer to the topic titled
“Removing Salesforce Data
from Your Device” in the Salesforce Classic Mobile User Guide for BlackBerry.
- If you're using a simulator to test your Visualforce Mobile pages, you have to deactivate your account in Salesforce.
To find out how to deactivate your account in Salesforce,
refer to the topic titled “Deleting Mobile Devices”
in the Salesforce Classic Mobile Implementation Guide.
- Test Sandbox Accounts
- By default, the mobile client application connects to the transport
for your production organization; however, you might want to test
in your sandbox organization. To find out how to activate a sandbox
account, refer to the topic titled “Activating a Sandbox Account
in Salesforce Classic Mobile” in the Salesforce Classic Mobile Implementation Guide.