Starting Oracle BI Mobile

You start the Oracle BI Mobile application from the Homescreen 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 can open the Oracle BI Mobile application as you open any other iPad application, by tapping its 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 setting 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 application icon.
    Oracle BI Mobile

    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 Login screen is displayed.

  3. Enter your initial server configuration settings as follows:

    1. For iPad, tap the icon with the plus sign in the Servers region.

    2. For iPhone, tap the plus sign in the title area of the Connection screen.

    The Server Settings screen is displayed.

  4. In the Server Settings screen, specify the following:
    General tab

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

    • 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: 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.

    • 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 is ON.

    Advanced tab

    • Device Locale: Tap the toggle to select ON or OFF. If set to ON, the application uses the device's settings for user interface language and region format. If set to OFF, language and region formats are based on the user preferences for Oracle BI Presentation Services. This toggle affects BI content only; setting it to OFF has no bearing on the application shell user interface.

    • 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.

    • MAD Path: For example, /mobile.

    • VA Path: For example, /va.

  5. Tap Save.
  6. Tap Login.

Once you are signed in, you can modify your server configuration or add a new server connection by tapping the Options icon (in the branding bar) and then Settings. 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 iPad applications, Oracle BI Mobile returns you to whichever view you were on when you left.

If your user state is no longer preserved, for example, if you have rebooted the device, or the iOS 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.

Tip:

When no server connections are available, you can work with locally-saved content in offline mode by tapping the Offline button in the Authentication screen. (You can even work in offline mode when server connections are available and have been defined.)

Launching Oracle BI Mobile from a Mobile URL

When you click a link to BI content that is in an email sent using Oracle BI Mobile, and the BI content opens in Oracle BI Mobile rather than in a browser, you are using an embedded URL to launch the mobile application.

Another way to launch the Oracle BI Mobile application is through mobile URLs; either from emails or from other applications (such as Oracle WebCenter).

Emails can be sent by the Oracle BI Mobile application that contain specially configured URLs that allow for the linked BI content to be opened in Oracle BI Mobile when viewed from a supported device such as the Apple iPad. See Sharing BI Content