BI Mobile Design Best Practices for Webi

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile makes viewing and interacting with business intelligence content as intuitive as possible on mobile devices. Documents are natively rendered to take full advantage of the mobile device display space and capabilities.
The major presentation differences from the typical desktop user experience are:
• The user interface, which is designed to maximize ease-of-use for mobile content navigation.
• The ability to set up single-click document access by setting a default document or folder.
• The conversion of report tabs within Web Intelligence documents, which appear as a report list on the device menu.

1.Create and use mobile device design templates

Use image backgrounds as the report design template for target mobile devices. Embed an image of
the target device in the report background as a model of the screen size to help design the report to fit
the device constraints

2.Canvas Size

do not allow graphics and data to exceed 2X the physical screen width

3.Group mobile documents under mobile category

It is recommendedthat the Enterpriseadministrator createacategory inthe BI launchpadcalled Mobile under Corporate Categories, and assigns Mobile-related documents to this category. If the report creators group all the documents designed specifically for mobile users into the same category, then mobile users know that they are accessing content designed for mobile consumption through their 9 2011-05-06 Best practices for mobile document design mobile device. Hence, when users log into the mobile application using their mobile device, SAP BusinessObjects Mobile presents the "Home" page with the list of mobile documents grouped under Mobile category. This enables users to reduce the number of clicks required to access documents each time they log on. If you do not assign mobile documents to a category, SAP BusinessObjects Mobile displays folders and documents located under Public folders or in the root folder.

4.Design small reports

Large data sets on the server can be mitigated by designing smaller report views. In Web Intelligence documents, drill hierarchies in reports allow users to access related data in different report views. 5.Use shortest significant names for headers and names Use codes instead of names for countries and cities. • Use the short name for people (made up of their first name initials + their last name) instead of full names.  • Use short labels for dates: FY04 instead of Year 2004, Q104 instead of 1st Quarter 2004. 6.Create short data display formats Divide numbers by 1,000 or by 1,000,000 and express the numbers in K or in M using Web Intelligence Custom format to reduce the number of digits displayed (to reduce column width). You can also put k or m in the column title to make columns as small as feasible. Change universe definitions of dimensions and measures, to enable drills on shortened text labels. For example, youcanconvert thedatedimensionintotwostrings:a Text column Year string(four characters) and a Quarter (two character) string. Then you can build an expression for YearAndQuarter made of the Quarter string concatenated with the two last characters of Year. To display charts with short numeric format display:  1. Convert the chart to a crosstab. 10 2011-05-06 Best practices for mobile document design 2. Shorten the number digits as necessary (for example, divide by 1,000 or by 1,000,000). 3. Convert the crosstab back to a chart. 7.Limit font sizes to small-medium-large Use Fonts 9, 12 and 15: Report display is limited to three available font sizes: Small, Medium, and Large. Limiting the font sizes ensures greatest compatibility across the variety of device types available in the marketplace. Font mapping on SAP BusinessObjects Mobile uses the following fonts:  • Arial 9 to map Small font of the mobile • Arial 12 to map Medium font of the mobile  • Arial 15 to map Large font of the mobile Design reports with these font sizes to achieve optimal rendering accuracy and consistency between the server and client behavior. Use small fonts for tables. Do not use bold styles for table content (use bold only for labels). 8.Use short meaningful names for document and report tabs In SAP BusinessObjects Mobile, report tabs are converted into a user selection list. Report tabs are also displayed in the report context labels. Choose report tab names that are short and meaningful to the end user as they become navigation aids. These name strings can be no longer than 20 characters 9. Use efficient excel logic and review other performance tips to ensure you don’t overload the limited capacity of the device. Test performance early and often on device. 10. Ensure you use only iOS supported fonts