User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS MOBILE INTERACTIVE VIEWING

[. . . ] Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing Copyright © 2007 Business Objects. patents, which may cover products that are offered and licensed by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403; 6, 247, 008; 6, 289, 352; 6, 490, 593; 6, 578, 027; 6, 768, 986; 6, 772, 409; 6, 831, 668; 6, 882, 998 and 7, 139, 766. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius, Crystal Decisions, Intelligent Question, Desktop Intelligence, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, Web Intelligence, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] · Connect automatically Activate this option to connect to the server and login automatically when you launch the application. Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing 31 3 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content Selecting a Folder · Warn me before logout Activate this option to receive a warning message before the server closes your session. For example, if you use the Back menu to return to your initial action, which was the login page, you may inadvertently log out. If you activate this option, the device will display a warning message in this situation. · Rendering level This option allows you to enable an enhanced viewing mode that enables the device to render graphic content like graphs and gauges at a higher level of resolution. The default setting on Symbian and Windows devices is enhanced, but you can set it to normal if you experience performance issues when viewing graphs. The recommended setting is enhanced for devices that support video viewing. The default setting on BlackBerry devices is normal for performance reasons, but you may choose the enhanced mode. Selecting a Folder At log in, BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing will present the list of documents and folders contained inside the user start folder. When start folder is not set BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing will show folders and documents located either in the Mobile folder under Public folders or the root folder, depending on whether or not a dedicated Mobile folder exists. End users can select any folder in the repository as their default folder. Setting the default folder When you connect to BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing, the application opens the default folder and displays the list of supported documents and analytics it contains. 32 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content Selecting a Folder 3 To change your preferences so that the application opens to the folder of your choice: 1. Once set, BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing will jump straight to this folder at startup (unless you have defined a default document in which case BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing displays the default document on opening). Note: You can return to and browse the folder hierarchy from the document display screen by selecting Document List from the menu: Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing 33 3 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content Selecting and opening a document or analytic Selecting and opening a document or analytic 1. After log in, use folder navigation to navigate to the right folder. 2. Select the document and use the menu item Open or Open from server or click OK to open the document. The Open command allows you to open a document or report from local device memory if you have already viewed it during the current session. Open from server allows you to download a document directly from the server with the latest data. If the document opened contains only one report, then that report is displayed immediately. If the document contains more than one report, the list of available reports is displayed for user selection: 34 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content Selecting and opening a document or analytic 3 3. Select the report and use the menu item Open report or click OK to open the report. The report is displayed as specified by the pagination options set up at document design time. Documents and reports are cached on the device and on the server for ease and speed of navigation. Related Topics: · Setting the cache options on page 19 Document viewing menu You can access a menu from each screen in the workflow. The options presented in the document viewing menu depend on which actions are possible at that particular stage of the workflow. The top-level menu list in the document viewing page contains the following items: Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing 35 3 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content Selecting and opening a document or analytic · · · · · · · · Next page: Open next report page if the report contains subsequent pages Previous page: Open previous report page if the document contains pages previous to the current page First page: Jump to first report page if the report contains multiple pages and any page other than the first page is currently displayed Last page: Jump to last report pageif the report contains multiple pages and any page other than the last page is currently displayed Drill down to: Appears only on drillable cells Drill up to: Appears only on drillable cells Refresh: Refresh the current report on the XIR2 server Reports: Jumps to the list of report tabs within the current report to allow users to navigate to other tabs. This appears only in documents with multiple reports. The shortcut menu in the document viewing page contains the following items (depending on the type of document you are viewing): · Refresh: Refresh the current report on the XIR2 server 36 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content Selecting and opening a document or analytic 3 · · · · · · · Reports: Jumps to the list of report tabs within the current report to allow users to navigate to other tabs. This appears only in documents with multiple report tabs Document list: Jumps to the list of documents in the XIR2 repository Enter panoramic mode (or Leave panoramic mode if you are already in panoramic mode): Enters or leaves panoramic mode, which allows you to pan horizontally to display wide reports or graphs. [. . . ] When it switches to packet mode, BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing will start with the default size set by the user in the Chunk size field in the Connection options menu (the default is set to 3 kilobytes but the web service accepts up to 99 kilobytes as a packet mode size default). Upon switch to packet mode, BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing will start with the default packet size and then, if this first packet-based call fails, it will decrement the packet size by one kilobyte and try again, repeating the Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing 47 3 Using BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing to Access BI Content How BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing handles degraded network access procedure until a call succeeds or the packet size reaches one kilobyte in length. If the network call fails at one kilobyte data packet size, BusinessObjects Mobile Interactive Viewing will present the error message Empty response from server with minimum chunk size - please check network services. In this situation, changing the data packet size is no longer an option because the problem is on the network. [. . . ]