Anyone know how to use a profile to add a bookmark for a url to the home screen for an android device that is enrolled into AfW/Android Enterprise.
Normally we just use the standard bookmark profile and that has worked just fine. But any profile categorized as ' android' are not applied to devices in AfW. Only profiles categorized as ' Android - Work' are.
Well, it seems xml custom profiles are OK :
Tested on AW 9.4 On Premise
- Samsung A320, Device Owner, Android 8.0 ==> OK (Airwatch overlay)
- Samsung A300, Work Profile, Android 6.0.1 ==> Agent says ' Not supported' , and does not work, needs further investigation (WP or Android version).
Just see what I've done :
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' <characteristic type=' com.airwatch.android.androidwork.bookmarks' uuid=' XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX' >
<parm name=' IconId' value=' XXXXX' />
<parm name=' Label' value=' Your Bookmark Label' />
<parm name=' AddToHomescreen' value=' True' />
<parm name=' URL' value=' awbs://your.site.your.domain/workwithairwatchbrowsertoo/cancontain{LookupValues}' />
<parm name=' ShowInAppCatalog' value=' True' />
<parm name=' Icon' value=' ###coded Icon Value###' />
</characteristic>'
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What I suggest is :
- Create a Legacy profile with the configuration you want (Add on desktop, Icon, etc...)
- Export as xml
- Change type=' com.airwatch.android.bookmarks' to type=' com.airwatch.android.androidwork.bookmarks' in your xml file
- Delete the Legacy profile (you do not want two profiles with the same UUID)
- Create a new with the same name and paste the xml in ' custom profile'
- Pray whatever divinity you want
- Praise my name 😉
You can do the same trick with WiFi profile that needs a proxy.pac file.
Note, the xml part is blocked by the forum... But I hope my explanation will be enough.
Hey Guys,
This is actually just moved its under apps & books then web hit add application and select android you can apply icons etc it then creates a profile after this.
Thanks,
Ben
Edit:
Just notice this has already been posted but to just reinforce this be sure to click the advanced options area and enable add to home screen.