Release Notes for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile for Apple iOS and Google Android
11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
E52669-11
December 2016
This document describes new features, issues, and workarounds related to Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile .
This document includes the following topics:
Following are the new features in recent updates of Oracle BI Mobile. Install the latest updated version of the application from the Google Play Store.
Following are the new features in the September 2015 update.
Share as Image. Share your analyses, dashboards, scorecards, and reports as images to the desired apps installed on your device.
Alerts. Receive native device notifications for Oracle BI Alerts that allow you to access Alert content and manage Alerts right in the app.
Presentation Mode. Connect, cast, and interact with reports from a nearby device onto your device using the Chromecast icon when it appears on your device.
Share Nearby. Share reports with nearby devices who can open the shared reports if those devices have access and use the same connection as yours.
Support for Oracle Visual Analyzer Content. Enables you to explore data visually, thereby find correlations, discover patterns, and see trends in your content.
Bug fixes.
Following are the new features in the March 2015 update.
Updated UI for material design
Optimized for Android 5.x
Lollipop/STK 20 Support
Support for sharing connections via URL
Oracle BI Mobile Security Toolkit available on Oracle Technology Network
Simplified server configuration
Simplified connection switching
Translations
Bug fixes
Following are the new features in the July 2014 update.
Support for action links, including action link navigation history
Support for dashboard sections
Support for Briefing Books
Add to Favorites now at the dashboard-page level
Location support on maps in dashboards
Bug fixes
Following are the new features in recent updates of Oracle BI Mobile. Install the latest updated version of the application from the Apple App Store.
New and updated features are available in the March 2016 update.
Following are the new features:
Sections appear as tabs with content within these tabs displayed in a modern card style interface.
Keeping in line with the iOS standards, you can manage the servers using the options available on the user interface.
You can tap to share your connections, reports, and dashboards.
Stability and Performance Fixes.
Native iOS Sharing on iPad and iPhone. Share links to reports, images, PDFs, and HTML files, based on the user options and the content type, to your native apps installed on the iPhone. The default sharing options are based on your share-type setting in the applicable app. The Share dialog is the default iOS Share dialog and the apps displayed in this dialog are based on what is installed on your device.
Spotlight Search in iPad and iPhone. For spotlight search to work with Oracle BI Mobile, you have to have opened the report one time in this mobile application. Once opened, Oracle BI Mobile adds a reference to that report into spotlight search and then that report can be found and opened outside the Oracle BI Mobile application.
Ability to Share Connections through iPad and iPhone. Share your connections with other users of the Oracle BI Mobile application using the Share Connection button when editing or creating connections. This shares a URL that enables another user to add that same connection to their app.
First-time Help Updated and Modernized for iPad and iPhone. The user help overlay with tips explaining how to navigate the application has been updated and modernized to match the user interface changes.
Bug Fixes.
Following are the new features in the October 2015 update.
Support for iOS 9 and continued support for iOS.
Support for iOS Handoff. You can now open an analysis or dashboard on one device and pick up where you left off on another device using Apple's Handoff feature.
Localization Updates.
Bug Fixes.
Updated Oracle BI Mobile Security Toolkit to Support Xcode 7 and iOS 9.
Following are the new features in the July 2015 update:
64-bit Support
Bug Fixes and Stability Fixes
Minor UI Updates
For your organization's end users, you can simplify the process of connecting to a specific host server by emailing them a URL.
In this way, you can allow your end users to begin working with Oracle BI Mobile without having to type in their server connection details themselves.
When end users receive your email and click on the URL, the server connection is configured automatically for them. The connection—with the name you have specified—then appears in the user's Oracle BI Mobile client, in the Servers section (within Settings), as one connection available to choose.
Use this example syntax to format the URL you provide to your end users:
oraclebimobile://com.oracle.obimobile/addserver?server=https://[username@][hostname][:port]/analytics/saw.dll&sso=true&name=[ConnectionName]
In the example above, addserver?server is the function call, the schema https means SSL-enabled (but alternatively it could be http for non-SSL), and the parameters username and port are not required. You specify the particulars of your organization's server connection to replace the bracketed variables.
The following table explains the format of this URL, and specifies which parameters are required.
Note:
All text shown within brackets in the example, such as <username>, is example text only. When you enter your organization's parameters, do not include the brackets.
| Parameter | Optional or Required? | Explanation |
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Required |
The schema |
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Optional |
When you provide a username, it is stored with the server settings. |
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Required |
This can be any of the following:
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Optional |
If the |
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Optional |
If the |
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Optional |
If the |
Note:
This section has described one method of simplifying the server connection process for your end users.
Following are the new features in the January 2015 update.
iOS 8 Support. The application is optimized for iOS 8. iOS 6 is no longer supported.
Immersive Mode. Changes and improvements including Show/Hide options for the Prompts bar, the Page bar, and the title bar. To enter or leave Immersive Mode, swipe up or down respectively. To hide or show the Prompts bar, tap the filter icon. To hide or show the Page bar, tap the menu icon in the Display bar.
Local iOS Notification for Alerts. Now you are able to receive your Oracle BI Mobile alerts in the iOS Notification Center, and the alerts take you to the application.
iPhone: Improvement to First-Time Help. Now you can reset the first-time help so that it shows again whenever you like. Tap the Options icon and then tap Show First Time Help.
iPad: Improvement to UI. Redundant dialogs for server settings and login were removed and replaced with a simplified welcome dialog. This allows you to quickly choose the demo, the server configuration screen, or offline mode. In the Settings screen, sharing options have been simplified.
Translation Update
Following are the new features in the August 2014 update.
Note:
For performance reasons, if a preview is less than five minutes old, it is not updated.Security Toolkit Enhancement. Now when you get the Oracle BI Mobile Security Toolkit, you also get a sample XCode project along with it.
iPad: Mobile Layout. By default, analyses and dashboards open with the desktop layout on the iPad. There is now an option that allows you to toggle to the mobile layout. The layout applies to each analysis or dashboard individually, and persists for the duration the analysis or dashboard remains open. Tap Options, then tap Mobile Layout. Toggle back to Original Layout.
"All Column Values" Option for Prompts. For prompts that support the All Column selection option, this is now available in Oracle BI Mobile. In the prompts dropdown, tap All Column Values to select all options at once.
iPhone: Spacing of icons in navigation bar. The icons in the bottom toolbar are now evenly spaced.
Bug Fixes and SSO Enhancements
Following are the known issues common to the iOS and Android Applications:
Sharing BI Content Using Links Does Not Work Across Mobile Operating Systems
User Must Log Off for Synchronizing of Recent and Favorites List
Differences to Note When Using Oracle BI Mobile with Oracle BI Cloud Service Implementations
Embedding BI Publisher Reports or Mobile App Designer Apps and Other External Content in Dashboards
Sharing with links does not function across mobile operating systems.
Impacted Releases: All
BI content shared through email on an iOS device (Oracle BI Mobile HD) does not open in the Android application (Oracle BI Mobile for Android) and vice versa.
Synchronization of the recent and favorite dashboards between the server and the mobile applications does not take effect until the user logs off.
Impacted Releases: All
Impacted Releases: All
When users of Oracle BI Cloud Service access BI content through Oracle BI Mobile, there are minor differences to keep in mind:
Users must log in to Oracle BI Mobile using single-sign-on (SSO).
Folders within the catalog have names that differ from the on-premise version of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE), for example there is the My Company folder instead of the Shared Folders folder.
Embedded BI Publisher Reports or Mobile App Designer Apps and other external content embedded using iFrames is not supported.
Impacted Releases: All
You can link BI Publisher reports and other external content using the Action links or open them directly by browsing the catalog and selecting the content.
Following are the known issues specific to the Android application:
Impacted Releases: All
Opening shared links through the Google Chrome browser can cause unexpected results. When you tap a shared link on an Android device, if the Oracle BI Mobile for Android application is installed, the user is prompted to open the link either through the application or with Google Chrome. Opening the shared BI content in the Oracle BI Mobile for Android application is the only supported method.
This release of Oracle BI Mobile for Android in not localized. The only supported language is English. If the device is set to a language other than English, the application will function, but all text will be in English.
Impacted Releases: All
Some types of links do not function as expected. For example, action links triggered from a tap-and-hold gesture (right-click in the desktop application) do not always display on analyses and may flash open then close. Also, links attached to a cell or on a page that launch another analysis or external sites do not open.
Impacted Releases: All
Impacted Releases: All
When the Oracle BI Mobile for Android application is first launched, if there is no access to the domain oracle.com or if the device is offline, the demo server is not added to the list of connections. The demo server is added automatically when the application is started with a valid network connection.
When sharing BI content through email, the user who opens the shared BI content cannot see the analysis title in the navigation bar. Instead the user sees the text Shared Report. This is not the case for near field communication sharing; for NFC sharing the title of the BI content displays just as it does on the device of the sender.
Impacted Releases: All
Impacted Releases: All
The type-ahead cache for search is refreshed only when one of the following occurs:
the connection is switched
the user exits the application and then the application sits for some duration
the user exits the application, stops it, and restarts it
Refreshing in this manner is done for performance reasons.
Following are the known issues specific to the iOS application:
Empty Prompts Section is Displayed in BI Mobile Dashboards with Prompts
No scrolling to View Offscreen Content If User Language is Arabic or Hebrew
Bi-directional Text Layout Not Supported by BI Mobile Client Shell UI
Mobile Device Accessibility Features Might Not Work With Oracle BI Mobile Application
BI Publisher Prompts Viewed in BI Mobile Display Differently Than in the Desktop Application
Charts emailed as HTML documents from the Oracle BI Mobile application may not be visible using the Quick Look preview feature within iOS.
Impacted Releases: All
When opening the HTML document in another application, all chart images are displayed. If you face this issue, open the attachment in an application rather than using simply the Quick Look preview feature, or send files using the PDF or Image email options.
Impacted Releases: All
When you create a dashboard and you make a property change to a section in a dashboard (for example, you change a column property from Fixed Width to Best Fit), that section then is displayed as an empty container in the dashboard. Changing the property to its previous setting does not correct the formatting. To fix the formatting of the dashboard, delete the empty section and replace it with a new one that has no properties applied.
This visibility issue applies only to BI content that would be hidden offscreen until scrolling over to see it.
Impacted Releases: All
If the user language has been set to Arabic or Hebrew, then you cannot drag or scroll to view further BI content in the Oracle BI Mobile application on the iPhone or iPad.
When using the Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile client with a bi-directional language like Hebrew or Arabic, the client shell does not show the layout correctly.
Impacted Releases: All
Apple iPhone and iPad accessibility features such as VoiceOver and Mono Audio might not work or might work only partially in the Oracle BI Mobile Application.
Impacted Releases: All
This issue has no workaround.
This issue applies only to Oracle BI Publisher reports.
Impacted Releases: All
Some Oracle BI Publisher prompts behave differently than they do in the desktop application. For example:
Test prompt. The prompt shows a list with default values; the prompt does not show the filter icon for changing the value.
Date prompt. The prompt shows a list with default values; the prompt does not show the filter icon for changing the value.
Radio buttons prompt. The prompt shows a list with default values; the prompt does not show the filter icon for changing the value.
Check boxes prompt. The prompt shows a menu allowing selection of a single value, rather than the multiple-value selection allowed in the desktop application.
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E52669-11
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