Offline

The Offline feature allows you to run Fawi apps through the Fawi Platform without having an internet connection.

This feature is useful when you have limited or no internet access.

How to Enable

To enable the offline feature, follow the next steps:

  1. Open Fawi Office.
  2. At the top right of an app card, tap more .
  3. From the app main menu, select Publish Settings to open the Publish Settings page.
    NOTE: You can reach this stage clicking the app icon on an app card.
  4. Tap the Device tab.
  5. Scroll to the Offline App section.
  6. Select Yes.
  7. Click the Save button.

To provide your app in offline mode, you must download the fawiOfflineMaker file for your server operating system and run it in your App Public Folder or in the command line with the folder path as parameter.

Once you are in the Device tab:

  1. Scroll to the Offline App section.
  2. Click the Download button with your server operating system icon, to download the fawiOfflineMaker file.
  3. Run the file in your App Public Folder or in the command line with the folder path as parameter.

Running the file in the command line, supposing the fawiOfflineMaker is in the downloads folder:

Linux
linux@linux-pc:~/Downloads$ fawiOfflineMaker.sh ~/path
...
Mac
mac@mac-pc:~/Downloads$ fawiOfflineMaker.sh ~/path
...
Windows
C:\Users\windows\Downloads> fawiOfflineMaker.bat ~/path