MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

Mobile Design and Administration Guide Designing Reports and Documents for iOS and Android Devices 1
• Because Android devices come in varying screen sizes, a dashboard
designed for iOS can appear different when viewed on an Android device.
To provide an attractive display of a dashboard on an Android device,
while leaving the display on an iOS device unaffected, use the following
properties to modify the dashboard:
Use the Fit Page and Fit Width options to ensure that the document
fits to the size of the screen.
By default, when the document is displayed on an Android device, any
area not used to display the document is rendered in the same color as
the background color defined for the document. You can use the
Document Fill Color or Layout Watermark to provide a background
for any part of the screen that is not used by the rest of the dashboard.
Manually size the column widths of any grids on a dashboard, rather
than using the automatic resizing options.
• Consider using Mobile Views to support different screen sizes, and
different orientations of the device. For instructions on using Mobile
Views, see Formatting documents for various screen sizes and different
orientations: Mobile Views, page 10.
• Consider creating documents that include widgets, rather than
converting reports to widgets. Certain features, such as Information
Windows and network lines for the Map widget, can only be used in
documents.
For steps to create widgets in documents, see Displaying data as
interactive visualizations: widgets, page 36.
• If you are creating an Interactive Grid widget, it is recommended that you
assign an action to only one attribute form in the widget. For example, if
you want one attribute to act as a selector, ensure that drilling is disabled
for the Grid/Graph, and that attributes on the Grid/Graph do not link to
other reports or documents.
For steps to create an Interactive Grid widget, see Displaying data in
rows and columns: Interactive Grid widget, page 49.
• Consider using links to add interactivity to your document. For example,
you can create links that allow users to send an email, make a phone call,
or execute related reports and documents. For information and the steps
to create links, see Opening a device’s installed applications from
documents, page 90 and Linking to documents and reports from a
mobile document, page 95.
• If you have prompts in a linked-to report, make sure that there are default
answers saved for the prompts.
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