Starting Oracle BI Mobile

You start the Oracle BI Mobile application from the Home screen on your device.

Note:

If the Oracle BI Presentation Services server that you are connecting to is behind a firewall, you need to connect through a Virtual Private Network (VPN). See your administrator for more information.

This section is organized as follows:

Launching Oracle BI Mobile for the First Time

You open the Oracle BI Mobile application as you open any other Android application, by tapping its launcher icon in the Home screen. The first time you use the Oracle BI Mobile application, however, you are presented with the licensing screen, then a login page that provides an initial server connections screen in which you add your server configuration.

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To launch Oracle BI Mobile for the first time:

  1. On your device's Home screen, tap the Oracle BI Mobile launcher icon, as shown below.
    Oracle BI Mobile on the Home Screen

    The end-user licensing agreement screen is displayed.

  2. Scroll to read the licensing agreement, and if you agree to the terms, tap Accept.

    The Connections screen is displayed.

  3. In the action bar, tap the Add button (the circled plus sign).
  4. In the Connections screen, specify the following:

    • Nickname. Give the server connection a name. Once set, this name cannot be changed.

    • Username. Use your standard username for connecting to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE).

    • Password. Use your standard password for connecting to Oracle BI EE.

    • Save Password. Tap the toggle to select ON or OFF. If set to ON, the password you enter in the Password field is saved as part of the configuration for the server. If set to OFF, you are prompted to enter your password each time you launch the application. The default setting isOFF.

    • Host. Enter the name of the server to connect to. Enter either the IP address (for example: 192.168.1.1) or the fully qualified host name of the computer on which Oracle BI Presentation Services is running (for example, host1.example.com). Do not enter a stand-in URL, such as tinyurl.com/1234 that redirects to a server.

    • Port. Enter the port number (for example, 7001).

    • SSL/TLS. Tap the toggle to select ON or OFF. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol is configured on the entry point for your Oracle BI Presentation Services server by your system administrator. If SSL is configured on the server you are connecting to, toggle this setting to ON. System administrators are advised to configure SSL on the Oracle BI Presentation Services server.

    • SSO. Tap the toggle to select ON or OFF. Single Sign-On (SSO) is configured on the entry point for your Oracle BI Presentation Services server by your system administrator. If SSO is configured on the server you are connecting to, toggle this setting to ON.

    • Analytics Path. For example, /analytics/saw.dll .

    • Publisher Path. For example, /xmlpserver . This setting is mandatory; it is only used, however, if you access any Oracle BI Publisher content.

  5. (Optional) If you want to try out the server configuration without leaving the Connections screen, tap Test Connection.
  6. Tap DONE.

Once you are signed in, you can modify your server configuration or add a new server connection by tapping the Menu icon (the three stacked squares) and then Connections. See Configuring Oracle BI Mobile.

Returning to Oracle BI Mobile

When you have left Oracle BI Mobile and are returning, for example, after leaving it and working with other applications, Oracle BI Mobile returns you to the view you were previously on (and to your previously selected server connection).

To quickly return to Oracle BI Mobile from another application, tap the Recents button in the bottom navigation bar, then tap the Oracle BI Mobile icon as shown in the following figure.

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If your user state is no longer preserved, for example, if you have rebooted the device, or the operating system purged the session after a long delay, or the authentication has timed out, then Oracle BI Mobile automatically attempts to authenticate to the connection you last used.