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3 Administering MicroStrategy Mobile Mobile Design and Administration Guide Scheduling the report or document The Mobile user or an administrator selects the reports or Report Services documents to be viewed in MicroStrategy Mobile. They then schedule these reports for delivery to Mobile, and answers any prompts in the reports. For instructions on scheduling report subscriptions for Mobile, see Managing Mobile report subscriptions, page 179. In addition, the Mobile user schedules an update time window for the mobile device to automatically retrieve the reports. For instructions, see the section on choosing when to update the Report List in the MicroStrategy Mobile Analysis Guide. Executing the report on Intelligence Server When the schedule associated with a report is triggered, that report is executed by Intelligence Server. The report is then sent to the History List, to reduce the load on Intelligence Server. For a detailed explanation of the History List, see the Caching chapter in the MicroStrategy System Administration Guide. Reports available in Mobile are only updated when the associated schedule is triggered, or (in MicroStrategy Mobile for BlackBerry) when the Reset option is selected in the Mobile application. (For instructions on how to reset a report, see the MicroStrategy Mobile Analysis Guide.) In particular, editing the report through MicroStrategy Web or Desktop does not update the report’s History List message. If you are concerned that Mobile users may not have the most recent version of a report, you should either update the History List message, or inform the users that they need to reset that report. If the user has made changes to the report on the Mobile device and saved those changes, any changes made to the report in MicroStrategy Web or Desktop are not applied to the report on the Mobile device until the user resets the report. Retrieving the report in MicroStrategy Mobile Once a report has been sent to the History List, it is available on Mobile Server. Mobile then retrieves the report from the server, either during its scheduled update time or during a manual update. To schedule when reports 178 The Mobile subscription workflow © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.
Mobile Design and Administration Guide Administering MicroStrategy Mobile 3 are retrieved from Mobile Server, and to retrieve reports immediately, see the MicroStrategy Mobile Analysis Guide. Mobile retrieves reports from Mobile Server by report ID (a unique 32-character identifier) and report type. Graph reports are stored on the mobile device as JPG image files. Other types of reports are compressed to roughly one-tenth their original size, using LZW compression. This keeps the memory footprint of each individual report as small as possible, and also reduces the amount of bandwidth that the reports use during reconciliation. In MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone, iPad, or Android, the administrator can control how much memory is available for use by reports in the Memory Limit setting in the device configuration. For instructions on changing this setting, see Configuring MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone or iPad, page 127 or Configuring MicroStrategy Mobile for Android, page 135. In MicroStrategy Mobile for BlackBerry, if the available memory on the device begins to run low, Mobile can store reports in extended device memory, such as on SD memory cards. For instructions on how to enable extended device memory, see the MicroStrategy Mobile Analysis Guide. Data security in Mobile The data in the reports and documents that you view on your mobile device is secured by MicroStrategy. This means that the data you can view and work with is controlled by the same security mechanisms that control access to the data in other MicroStrategy products. Security settings can limit your data access to specific projects, certain reports within a project, the ability to use specific objects on reports, and how you can explore some data. If you have any questions about any data you expect to be able to access but cannot, see your MicroStrategy administrator. MicroStrategy also secures the data in your reports and documents by ensuring that other applications on your mobile device cannot access it. Managing Mobile report subscriptions To receive reports and Report Services documents on a mobile device, the device’s user must be subscribed to those reports. Each Mobile subscription is associated with a MicroStrategy schedule that controls how often the report or document is updated. For detailed information about schedules © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc. Managing Mobile report subscriptions 179
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