Working with Alerts and Agents

In terms of user interface elements provided by Apple iOS, an alert is the popup that displays to provide important information before you take an action and that has a short title and an OK button to exit out of it.

This section refers only to alerts as understood as a part of Oracle Business Intelligence; that is a notification generated by an agent that delivers personalized and actionable content to specified recipients and to subscribers to the agent.

On your mobile device, you can view the same agent-generated list of active alerts you view in the desktop version of Oracle BI EE. Each alert in your list provides the associated object's name and its last execution time.

The Oracle BI Mobile application checks for alerts on application startup and again periodically when you are working with the application or have it open.

The Alerts bar displays your current alerts. The most recent displays at the left. The Alerts bar also displays the Alerts icon (a bell) that shows the number of current alerts. You can scroll through multiple alerts. You can clear alerts. You can hide the Alerts bar.

The associated alert output (analyses and dashboard pages) for your active alerts can be opened from the Alerts bar on your mobile device as well. As with the desktop version of the alert output, these are non-interactive reports.

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To hide the Alerts bar:

1. Do one of the following:

   • Tap the Alerts icon (the bell).

   • Tap the New Alerts icon (the red-circled number overlapping a small bell).

When the Alerts bar is not visible, the New Alerts icon displays to the left of the Options icon on the title bar.

You can open BI content associated with alerts.

To open the BI content associated with an alert:

1. In the Alerts bar, tap the alert.

   The BI content associated with the alert is displayed.

You can clear an individual alert or multiple alerts at once.

When you clear an alert in the mobile environment, its elimination is synchronized with the desktop version of Oracle BI EE. Likewise, when you clear an alert in the desktop environment, its elimination is synchronized in the mobile environment.

To clear an alert:

1. In the Alerts bar, tap and hold until the Close control (an X) displays in the upper-right corner of the alert thumbnail. (At this point you can clear multiple alerts if you wish, because all your alerts display the Close control.) Tap the Close control. When finished, tap outside the Alerts bar to exit the clearing mode.

   When all your alerts have been cleared, the Alerts bar disappears.

As with the desktop version of Oracle BI EE, you can execute agents in the Oracle BI Mobile application through a schedule.

To run an agent from the Alerts bar:

1. In the Alerts bar, tap the alert associated with the agent you want to run.

2. In the alert's view, tap Run Agent.

3. Tap Done.

   The agent executes, and when complete, a success or failure message displays. When execution is successful, the Alerts bar is updated appropriately.