This preface describes new features and upgrade considerations in Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile (Oracle BI Mobile) 11 g Release 1 (11.1.1).
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This section describes new features in recent updates of Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile (Oracle BI Mobile).
Install the latest updated version of the application from the Apple App Store. See Getting Oracle BI Mobile for Your Apple iPad.
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To take full advantage of the features described in this documentation, you must install or update to the latest version of Oracle BI Mobile available in the App Store.
End-user enhancements have been added in the following areas:
Alerts. The user interface for alerts has been simplified. See Working with Alerts and Agents.
Searching the catalog. You now tap the Search icon in the navigation bar when you want to explore the Oracle BI Presentation Services catalog.
Support for external links in Oracle BI Mobile apps. While viewing an app created in Oracle BI Mobile App Designer, when you click an external link, the URL now opens in the default browser on your device rather than in a web view.
User interface improvements.
iPhone application. Whether you are using Oracle BI Mobile on an iPad or an iPhone, there is now a single universal application that works on both devices.
Preconfigured demo server. Upon launching Oracle BI Mobile, you can access a demonstration server to work with a version of the sample application. See Accessing the Oracle BI Mobile Demonstration Server.
First Time Help. When you begin using Oracle BI Mobile, you see an overlay with tips explaining how to navigate the application. To hide the help, tap anywhere on the screen. To view the help again later, tap the Options button and then tap Show First Time Help.
New Settings view. By swiping right twice, you can easily access this new Settings backstage where you configure your server settings, choose the view you want the Oracle BI Mobile application to start on, set your email-sending preference, and personalize your wallpaper. See Navigating the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and BI Content.
Configured start-up content. You can select a default view—or even a specific dashboard—to display when you log in to the Oracle BI Mobile application. See Configuring Start-up Content.
New view: KPI Contribution Wheel. See Working with Scorecard Content.
Improved dashboard navigation. You select pages to view within a dashboard no longer from a dropdown list, but from an overlay that appears showing the available pages. Alternatively, you can scroll left and right in the dashboard navigation bar, then tap to select a page. See Working with Analyses and Dashboards.
Hide or show the prompts bar. You can free up screen space by hiding the prompts bar when you have finished setting prompts. See Working with Prompts.
Interacting with external content in Oracle BI Mobile. With this new feature, you can work with files of format PDF and XLS. See Which BI Content is Viewable Using Oracle BI Mobile?.
This topic describes the new features for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7).
With this release, there is a brand-new application to install from the Apple App Store. See Getting Oracle BI Mobile for Your Apple iPad
This release provides end-user enhancements in the following areas:
Maximize views with double-tap gesture. With this new feature, you can access on your iPad more data—even within dense dashboards—without the restrictions of the smaller form factor. You expand an individual view by double-tapping on it. The individual view then displays within the full screen of the iPad. This maximizing of views can be done on views accessed within a dashboard, and also when viewing an analysis independent of a dashboard. See Working with Analyses and Dashboards.
New view and graph types.
Performance tiles. This new view type is among the BI content that can be viewed in Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile (Oracle BI Mobile). See Working with Performance Tiles.
Waterfall graphs. This new graph type is among the BI content that can be viewed in Oracle BI Mobile. See Working with Graphs.
100% stacked graph as subtypes to the bar graph and the area graph. This new graph subtype is among the BI content that can be viewed in Oracle BI Mobile. See Working with Graphs.
Stacked graph as a new subtype to the area graph. This new graph subtype is among the BI content that can be viewed in Oracle BI Mobile. See Working with Graphs.
Fixed headers. In analyses with fixed headers, you can use a single-finger drag gesture to scroll through data in all directions. See Working with Tables, Pivot Tables, and Trellis Views.
Changing between landscape and portrait orientation while viewing Oracle BI content. See Switching Screen Orientation Between Landscape and Portrait.
Breadcrumbs. You can see the navigation path you have taken while moving through the catalog as a trail of breadcrumbs (near the top of the screen by the Back arrow). In this way, you can see your current location and how you got there, then decide whether to use the Back arrow to navigate in reverse, or to use the Home icon to quickly return to the Home screen. See About Working with BI Content in the Mobile Application.
Security toolkit. The Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile Security Toolkit (Oracle BI Mobile Security Toolkit) provides the ability to generate a signed version of the Oracle BI Mobile HD application. The toolkit includes the instructions and necessary content to build this application making use of Apple's Xcode and the IOS SDKs. The Oracle BI Mobile Security Toolkit will be updated on a regular basis in order to synchronize with the Oracle BI Mobile HD application available on the Apple App store. See Using the Security Toolkit for Mobile Device Management.
Viewing of Oracle BI Publisher reports in dashboards. See Working with Oracle BI Publisher Content.
Integrated Full-Text Catalog Search. As in the desktop version of Oracle BI EE, you can use full-text search to find catalog objects in Oracle BI Mobile based on attributes such as author and column name. This search is available after the administrator integrates Oracle BI EE with Oracle Endeca Server. See Performing Searches.
There are no new features for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile (Oracle BI Mobile) in Release 11.1.1.6.0. Release 11.1.1.6.2 of Oracle BI Mobile includes many new features encompassing user interaction, graph and gauge interactivity, availability of locally-saved BI content, map views, use of prompts, and much more.
This section describes new features for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6).
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Release 11.1.1.6.2 of Oracle BI Mobile includes many new features encompassing user interaction, graph and gauge interactivity, availability of locally-saved BI content, map views, use of prompts, and much more.
This release provides end-user enhancements in the following areas:
Home page to serve as launch pad for content (access to Recent, Favorites, Dashboards, Local Content, Search). See What Does Oracle BI Mobile Look Like?.
Carousel-style display (for Recent and Favorites). See Navigating and Switching Between the Carousel, List, and Grid Display Styles.
List-style display. See Navigating and Switching Between the Carousel, List, and Grid Display Styles.
Dashboard explorer (list of thumbnails) on Home page that lets you navigate the catalog for dashboards. See Navigating the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and BI Content.
Catalog navigation. See Navigating the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and BI Content.
A toolbar and a Previous icon. See Working with the Back Arrow and the Previous Icon.
Application launching via "mobile URLs," that is, either from email or from other applications (such as Oracle WebCenter). See Launching Oracle BI Mobile from a Mobile URL.
Seeding the Oracle BI Mobile application with one or more servers for provisioning of servers by URL. See Implementing Server Provisioning Through URL.
Multitasking. The Oracle BI Mobile application retains its state when you switch to and from other iPad applications. When you switch back to Oracle BI Mobile, you are returned directly to the screen from which you left the application. See Switching Between Oracle BI Mobile and Other iPad Applications.
Touch interaction allowing tap-and-hold for navigating tables, pivot tables, and trellis views. This enhancement brings the desktop application's right-click menu options into the Oracle BI Mobile application. See Working with Tables, Pivot Tables, and Trellis Views.
Graph interactivity. See Working with Graphs.
Trellis view. See Working with Tables, Pivot Tables, and Trellis Views.
Synchronizing of Oracle BI Mobile favorites with Desktop favorites. See Synchronizing Mobile Favorites with Desktop Favorites.
Support for viewing and interacting with briefing books. See Working with Briefing Books.
Alerts. See Working with Alerts and Agents.
Search. See Performing Searches.
Scorecards. When embedded in a dashboard page, scorecard views including KPI watchlists, smart watchlists, custom views, strategy maps, strategy trees, strategy contribution wheels, and cause & effect maps may be viewed in their fully-interactive diagram or tabular formats. Scorecard views browsed from the catalog (and not on a dashboard) display in a simplified iPad-optimized table format. See Working with Scorecard Content.
MapView. See Working with Map Views.
Printing BI content wirelessly. If you are using an iPad that supports multitasking (that is, a device running iOS 4.2 or later), then you can wirelessly print BI content. For the printer discovery and execution of print jobs provided by the Apple iOS, you must have an AirPrint-enabled printer connected to the same wireless network as your iOS device. While viewing BI content, tap the Options button and then tap Print. The XML format is not supported for printing. While you can view FO-formatted XML (XSL-FO) using Oracle BI Mobile, XML data cannot be printed from your mobile device.
Rich email support, with attachments and with content embedding. Support for two types of URLs that are embedded in emails: one is a regular URL that launches the BI content in a desktop browser, and the other is a URL that launches the BI content in the Oracle BI Mobile application).
New layout for prompts. A key subset of dashboard prompts has been redesigned to optimize the prompts for touch interaction. See Working with Prompts.
A dashboard prompts bar. See Working with Prompts.
Graphs are no longer static, they are interactive, and allow for interactions through gestures. See Working with Graphs.
Offline, local storage of content on device memory with the ability to refresh data on-demand. See Saving Content Locally.
Offline mode for access to saved local content without an Internet connection. See Working with Local Content.
Release 11.1.1.5 of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) introduces Oracle BI Mobile.
Oracle BI Mobile includes many new features, including the following highlights:
Platform support for the Apple iPhone and the Apple iPad.
Your BI content is available for immediate consumption on your iPad, optimized for mobile viewing without the need to redesign any content.
Support for the following Oracle BI EE objects: dashboards, analyses, BI Publisher reports, scorecards, and content delivered by agents.
In analyses and dashboards, the Oracle BI Mobile application provides all analytic actions (such as drill, action link, prompts, and so on).
For Oracle BI Publisher, the actions supported match those of the desktop (based on output type).
In scorecards, the Oracle BI Mobile application provides a subset of analytic actions.