MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

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• A report’s font colors and styles (bold, italic, underline) are displayed in
MicroStrategy Mobile. However, font types and sizes, and the alignment
of text, are not applied to the report in MicroStrategy Mobile. Consider
this when formatting the text on your report. Users can adjust the font
size from MicroStrategy Mobile.
• Use thresholds formatted as quick symbols, colors, or text replacements.
Thresholds involving the size and alignment of text are not supported.
Also, custom image-based thresholds are not displayed in MicroStrategy
Mobile.
• Report size guidelines:
If a report or document is 125,000 bytes (125KB) or larger, it will not
be downloaded to a mobile device. If this issue occurs, redesign the
report or document in MicroStrategy Desktop or Web to use it in
MicroStrategy Mobile.
A report or document in MicroStrategy Mobile is typically about 1/5 to
1/2 of the size of the same report or document in MicroStrategy
Desktop or MicroStrategy Web, depending on the size and complexity
of the report or document.
Some smaller reports and documents may be compressed to about 1/
10 of the size of the same report or document in Web or Desktop.
• Designing graph reports:
When designing a graph report in MicroStrategy Desktop, enable
Automatic graph layout. This ensures that the objects on the graph are
not repositioned in MicroStrategy Mobile. For the steps to do this, see
the Graphing chapter of the MicroStrategy Advanced Reporting
Guide.
Consider using graphs with only enough series that can best fit on the
screen at a time. If you must display more information than can fit on
one screen, use page-bys to break the graph in logical places across
multiple screens.
For details to design a report in MicroStrategy Desktop or MicroStrategy
Web, see the MicroStrategy Basic Reporting Guide.
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