MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

Mobile Design and Administration Guide Administering MicroStrategy Mobile 3
Configure the home screen
1 From the Mobile Configuration, select the Home Screen tab.
2 To display the default MicroStrategy Mobile home screen when the
application is started, select Display the default home screen. The
default home screen contains buttons for Projects, Folders, Settings, and
Help.
3 To display the contents of a folder when the application is started:
a Select Display the contents of a folder.
b Click the down arrow next to the Object field. A dialog box opens.
c From the Project drop-down list, select the project that contains the
folder you want to display. This must be a project that the
configuration has been granted access to on the Connectivity
Settings tab.
d In the User name and Password fields, type the user name and
password to log in to the project.
e Browse to the folder and click Use current folder. The dialog box
closes and the browse folder is specified in the field. This is the root
folder where the Mobile user begins browsing for reports and
documents.
f By default, Mobile Server checks for a cached subscription when a
Mobile user selects a report or document from the browse folder. To
execute the report or document without checking for a cached
subscription, clear the Check subscription check box. Disabling this
option ensures that reports and documents are updated, but this
execution requires more time than displaying cached subscriptions.
g You can configure the application to cache and preload the contents of
a folder in the background when the application reconciles. This
feature creates a faster response time for the contents of the desired
folder, and allows you to cache objects on the mobile device without
requiring users to manually execute them. To enable cache
preloading, select the Pre-cache contents at startup check box.
To
increase the execution performance of pre-cached objects that
do not have server side caching enabled, specify an appropriate
amount of time for local caches to remain valid. To do this, enter
the amount of time in the Cache real-time data for field in the
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