Configuring the Mobile Phone App Service

To configure the Social Squared Mobile Phone App, you will need to host a Web Service that provides the communication between the users mobile device and the Social Squared SQL Database. The Web Service can be hosted anywhere, but examples include IIS, Azure, or SmartASP.NET.

Once the service has been configured, each user can configure their username and password to login to the service using their profile settings within the Social Squared Web Part.

The Social Squared App can be found by searching for “Social Squared” in the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Permissions must be applied to each user that can use the app.

Configuring the Social Squared Web Service in IIS

To configure the Social Squared Phone app service:

1. Copy the Phone App Web Service to a location on your IIS Server
2. Open IIS Manager
3. Right click your web site and choose Add Application

1. Provide an alias for the service and set the physical path to the directory containing the Phone Book Web Service files.

1. Open the Web.Config within the Web Service Directory and set the connection string for your Social Squared Database.

1. Navigate to Site Settings within Social Squared and click the Forum Settings Link to open the Forum Settings Page.
2. Set the Web Service URI and enable the Phone App Access.

Each user can now set their login and password from within the Social Squared User Profile:

The final step is for each user to download the Phone App and configure the Service URL with the username and password that they set: