LocPad User Guide

Show Address Bar

This will turn ON/OFF the URL bar. When turned OFF, users cannot view or manually type in URLs. Note that if the Address Bar is visible, the user can type in any URL, but he/she will not be allowed to go to that URL unless it is in the Whitelist.

Show Navigation Controls

This turns ON/OFF all of the web browser buttons (Back, Forward, Home, Reload). If you intend to turn OFF these buttons, your website should provide buttons or links for navigation, such as Back, Forward, and Home.

Show WebPage Title Bar

This turns ON/OFF the web page title bar (The space above the browser's navigation controls that displays the words that appear between the website's <title> tags).

Full Screen

Turn ON/OFF the iPad's status bar. Normally, iPad Apps will still display the status bar at the top of the screen, which shows the Wifi/3G connection status, time of day, and battery charge level. However, Apps may choose to override this status bar and occupy the entire screen. This option lets you choose if you would like your App to occupy the full screen.

Browse Local Content

This is an advanced feature that allows you to load website content onto the iPad/iPod using iTunes. That means your end user can browse your website without requiring any Internet connection. We recommend leaving this OFF until you have reviewed the detailed instructions later in this guide (See Loading HTML Content onto the iPad)

Start Page

This is the web page that LocPad will load upon startup. It is automatically considered part of the Whitelist.

White-List

This is a list of allowed website URLs. If the website is listed here, the user can type that website into the Address Bar, or he/she can click on any links to these pages. Websites that are not listed here cannot be loaded by the web browser.

Each Whitelist entry creates a pattern matching rule. For example, if you enter "amazon.com" in the Whitelist, then any URL within the amazon.com domain name will be allowed to load, because all of the URLs contain the text "amazon.com". If you instead enter "amazon.com/products", then only website URLs that include the full text "amazon.com/products" will be allowed to load. Use this feature to restrict your users to your specific website or to certain URLs on your website.

Password

This is the password that the user must enter to access the Settings screen.

Loading HTML Content onto the iPad

If you plan to use LocPad in a location where Internet access is not available, you can load an entire HTML website onto the iPad itself by using iTunes! But iTunes does not make this process very obvious, so here's how:

1. First, select your iPad under the DEVICES section on the left side of the screen.
2. Then select the "Apps" tab in iTunes.
3. Scroll the screen all the way down until you see File Sharing, then select LocPad
4. Then click on "Add.." to add HTML and/or image files to the LocPad app.
5. Don't forget to Sync your iPad with iTunes when you're done!