Creating MOBILE Lab Sessions

As explained in the link above, MOBILE Lab Sessions are directories whose contents can be affected by or affect other participants' machines that are 'connected' on the same MOBILE Lab Session.

There are three ways to create a session:

• Create a Directory in the MOBILE Root Sessions Folder

  Both the MOBILE Client and MOBILE Presenter applications use the directory names found in the /opt/mobile/sessions directory to load session options (the options that appear in the session dropdown select menus). Therefore, to create a new session titled 'MyNewSession', create a new directory at /opt/mobile/sessions/MyNewSession. Any files added to this directory will appear in the corresponding session folder when connected to that session either with the Client or Presenter software.

  [In fact, this is because session folders that appear on the desktop are just links to these directories]

• Run MOBILE Presenter and Type in a New Session Name

  In addition to allowing users to connect to existing sessions, the session select dropdown menu also allows users to type in a new session name. After typing a new session name into the dropdown menu, pressing [Enter] or clicking elsewhere on the application will create a new session. This creates a new directory with the given session name in the /opt/mobile/sessions directory (this also causes the Presenter to 'connect' to this session, thus creating a link to the newly created directory on the desktop).

• Run MOBILE Client and Type in a New Session Name

  Likewise, the MOBILE Client session select dropdown menu also allows users to type in a new session name. After typing a new session name into the dropdown menu, clicking the 'Start' button in the application will create and connect to the new session. As with the Presenter method above, this creates a new directory with the given session name in the /opt/mobile/sessions directory (by connecting to this new session, a link to the newly created directory appears on the desktop).

As mentioned above, sessions are discovered and identified by the names of directories found in the /opt/mobile/sessions directory. Similarly, session content is simply the contents stored in a session's corresponding directory.

So, the contents of the:

• 'Security' session would be all files found in the directory /opt/mobile/sessions/Security
• 'Cs1' session would be all files found in the directory /opt/mobile/sessions/Cs1

To add content to a session either:

• Add files directly to /opt/mobile/sessions/<SessionName>
• - or -
• Run MOBILE Presenter or MOBILE Client and add files to the directory link that appears on the desktop.

NOTE: Data from previously created or connected sessions is always accessible in the /opt/mobile/sessions directory unless manually deleted.
NOTE: Data from previously created or connected sessions is always accessible via the desktop directory link by running either MOBILE Client or MOBILE Presenter unless the underlying directory is manually deleted.