{"id":3181,"date":"2017-03-05T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T09:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2017-03-05T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T09:40:32","slug":"development-tips-for-creating-mobile-apps-with-sap-businessobjects-design-studio-and-the-sap-businessobjects-bi-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/development-tips-for-creating-mobile-apps-with-sap-businessobjects-design-studio-and-the-sap-businessobjects-bi-platform","title":{"rendered":"Development Tips for Creating Mobile Apps with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest article for\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/sapexperts.wispubs.com\/BI\/Articles\/Development-Tips-for-Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-SAP-BusinessObjects-Design-Studio-and-the-SAP-BusinessObjects-BI-Platform?id=F20CD053886D4779A21A8F3BAE99A539\">BI Expert<\/a> online magazine is all about creating mobile\u00a0applications with SAP BusinessObjects\u00a0Design Studio. The learning objectives\u00a0are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to set up the BI platform for mobile applications<\/li>\n<li>How to use the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app<\/li>\n<li>Constraints to consider when developing mobile Design Studio apps<\/li>\n<li>How to set up a Design Studio template for mobile applications<\/li>\n<li>Best practices for designing mobile applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sapexperts.wispubs.com\/BI\/Articles\/Development-Tips-for-Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-SAP-BusinessObjects-Design-Studio-and-the-SAP-BusinessObjects-BI-Platform?id=F20CD053886D4779A21A8F3BAE99A539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3183 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/biexpert-1.png\" alt=\"biexpert\" width=\"453\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/biexpert-1.png 453w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/biexpert-1-150x22.png 150w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/biexpert-1-300x44.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Development Tips for Creating Mobile Apps with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform<\/h3>\n<p>Today\u2019s business users expect their data, reports, and dashboards to be available everywhere, all the time. Not just when they are behind their desks, but also on mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. Design Studio and the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform can support this request. However, the way a user interacts with a mobile dashboard differs a lot from using a dashboard on a laptop or desktop computer\u2014the smaller mobile screen means less space for visualizations, filters, buttons, and other components.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, developing mobile applications requires a different approach than developing dashboards for normal desktop usage. This article demonstrates practical best practices on how to achieve this with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform.<\/p>\n<h4>The Basics: Setting Up the BI Platform and Mobile Applications<\/h4>\n<p>You can use the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app to run Design Studio applications on a mobile device. This is the preferred option, as the app provides a secure and easy way to connect to the BI platform and run Design Studio applications, as well as other BI documents such as Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and SAP Lumira documents.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative would be to use a web browser like Safari or Google Chrome on the mobile device to access the BI applications. A big disadvantage to this alternative is that the BI Launchpad interface isn\u2019t responsive to the decreased screen size and appears and functions in the same way as on a desktop browser. This means that users must log on using tiny log-in screens, and must browse to specific documents using the folder structure in the BI Launchpad, which is optimized for use on a big screen with a mouse\u2014in other words, not ideal for mobile phone use with their smaller screens. (I go into more detail about the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app later in this article, in the \u201cFeatures of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Applications\u201d section.)<\/p>\n<p>You can get the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/sapexperts.wispubs.com\/BI\/Articles\/Development-Tips-for-Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-SAP-BusinessObjects-Design-Studio-and-the-SAP-BusinessObjects-BI-Platform?id=F20CD053886D4779A21A8F3BAE99A539\">BI Expert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest article for\u00a0the BI Expert online magazine is all about creating mobile\u00a0applications with SAP BusinessObjects\u00a0Design Studio. The learning objectives\u00a0are: How to set up the BI platform for mobile applications How to use the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app Constraints to consider when developing mobile Design Studio apps How to set up a Design Studio template [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163],"tags":[313,314],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-businessobjects-design-studio","tag-bi-expert","tag-sap-expert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-Pj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2993,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/sap-businessobjects-design-studio-the-comprehensive-guide-now-available","url_meta":{"origin":3181,"position":0},"title":"SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio \u2013 The Comprehensive Guide NOW AVAILABLE!!","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"February 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is a glorious day, as\u00a0SAP Press released our new\u00a0book:\u00a0SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio \u2013 The Comprehensive Guide!! 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