Offline Mobile Dashboards

Introduction

Mobile dashboards can be viewed when the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app is set to Work Offline, or when the mobile device’s wireless is disabled or unavailable.

The app saves the document and its data locally so the dashboard can be viewed offline. This mitigates network interruptions and minimizes communication costs.

Enabling Offline Dashboards

ŸIn a BI Platform CMC

§ Logon to the CMC

Enter your credentials and logon to CMC

§ Open the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app’s Properties

1.      Select “Applications” from the drop-down list

2.      Select and right-click “SAP BusinessObjects Mobile”

3.      Click “Properties”

         

§ Enable Offline Storage in Client Settings

1.  Select the “Client Settings” tab

2.  Set the value of “offlineStorage” to “true”

3.  Click “Save & Close”

   

ŸIn the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app

§ Add the dashboard to My Items

1.  Tap the “i” icon beside the relevant dashboard

2.  Tap “Add to My Items”

3.  The “+” icon changes to a checkmark. This indicates that the document has been downloaded locally.

         

§ Enable Work Offline or disable the mobile device’s wireless connectivity

1.  Tap “Settings”

2.  Tap “Application Settings”

3.  Tap “Additional Settings”

4.  Switch “Work Offline” to ON

5.  Tap “Done”

         

Alternatively, enable offline mode:

         

 

§ Set the Offline Dataset Number

1.  Open the mobile device’s Settings

2.  Select the SAP BI app

3.  Tap “Offline Dataset Number” under Dashboards

4.  Set the “Offline Dataset Number”

         

 

the Offline Dataset Number Elaboration

The Offline Dataset Number is the amount of stored query refresh requests. It does not indicate the number of rows in the dataset or the data file size.

For dashboards that include queries, there will always be one query refresh request for queries without parameters, and more than one query refresh request for queries with parameters. The amount of requests depends on the amount of combinations of parameter values.

The Offline Dataset Number sets the maximum number of query refresh requests.