Mobile Search App - Working Offline

In normal circumstances, we recommend that you use the app in an "Online" mode, which means that we will get the latest/greatest information for you at the time that you request it, from our server.  That way, if someone onshore makes any updates, you'll have access to those updates immediately.  However, we have designed the app so that you can download data to the app, and then disconnect from the Internet.  This allows you to access information even when there is no Internet connection, or when the Internet connection is very slow, or when you've reached your carrier's bandwidth limit.

Here's how the offline mode works;

1)  While still connected to the Internet, download the information you want.  Usually, this will mean that you'll go to the Mobile Search App - Search Page and choose the option to Search for "All" data.

2)  Switch the app to Offline mode.  You can do this by clicking on the menu icon in the top right hand corner of the app, and choosing the Offline option.

When you do this, you'll be asked whether you want to download all the Detail information first.  Here's what's going on.  When we do a search, we normally only retrieve the information that appears on the Mobile Search App - Search Results Page and the Mobile Search App - Chart Page.  We don't download the data for the Mobile Search App - Search Details Page until you tap on the result. 

If you don't need to go to the Mobile Search App - Search Details Page, you can decline to download this information. But if you do want to be able to go to this page, choose the option to download the additional data.  PLEASE NOTE:  this can take a while!

While in Offline mode, your searches will go against your local copy of data, rather than accessing our server.  If your last search before going into Offline mode was not a search for "All" data, the app may erroneously tell you that there were no matching results.

3)  When you are back to WiFi coverage, switch the app back to Online mode.