MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

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Designing Reports and Documents for iOS and Android Devices Mobile Design and Administration Guide
Prompting users for their location: Geo Location prompts
The Geo Location prompt lets users answer a prompt by using their device’s
current geographical location. Geo Location prompts are typically used to
filter data in a Map widget. For example, a Map widget displays several
locations as markers on the map display. You can choose to display only
those map markers that are in the user’s current city.
The location name that is returned by a Geo Location prompt is based on
Google’s geocoding. The prompt determines the user’s longitude and latitude
using the mobile device’s GPS receiver, and passes this information to
Google Maps to return information about the user’s location.
You can also use an attribute element prompt to filter attribute elements
based on the location of the mobile device. To support attribute element
prompts, your MicroStrategy schema must include a location mapping
attribute that includes attribute forms for latitude and longitude
information.
For example, to filter a list of stores by the state in which the mobile device is
located, provide a location mapping attribute that contains attribute forms
for the state name, latitude, and longitude.
The attribute that provides the list of attribute elements that are filtered and
displayed by the Geo Location prompt, also called the display attribute, does
not have to be the same as the location mapping attribute. For example, the
Customer State is both the display attribute and the location mapping
attribute. When the prompt is displayed on a mobile device, the list of
prompt answers is filtered to display the current state, as shown in the image
below. Instead, if the display attribute is the Store attribute, and the location
mapping attribute is Customer State, the list of prompt answers is filtered to
display the stores in the current state, as shown in the image below on the
right. Users can select stores from the list for which to display data.
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