MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

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Designing Reports and Documents for iOS and Android Devices Mobile Design and Administration Guide
The Barcode Reader prompt supports the following types of barcodes:
• UPC-A
• UPC-E
• EAN-8
• EAN-13
You can do the following:
• To allow iPhone and Android users to filter report results based on a
product barcode, you can define a value prompt with the display style set
to Barcode Reader.
For steps to create a value prompt, see To create a value prompt,
page 28.
• To allow iPhone, iPad, and Android users to search for an item in an
attribute element list, you can define an attribute element prompt with
the display style set to Barcode Reader. If an item’s barcode matches the
scanned or typed barcode, its name is returned in the search and can be
selected to answer the prompt.
For steps to create an attribute element prompt, see To create an
attribute element prompt, page 31.
To support the scanning of barcodes using MicroStrategy Mobile, you must
store the barcode data used in the associated prompt with a database data
type that supports text data. MicroStrategy recommends using the Varchar
data type for your database to store the barcode data. For details about
storing data in your warehouse, see the MicroStrategy Project Design Guide.
Displaying data as interactive visualizations:
widgets
A widget is a rich, graphical display of the results of data, which allows users
to visualize data in different ways than they can when using traditional
reports. Widgets are sophisticated visualization techniques that can combine
with rich interactivity to enable users to understand their data more
effectively.
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