The client applications for iPhone and iPad are available for free on the Apple App Store:
Just search for the keyword MicroStrategy and install it as any other app.
When first launched, it will show a welcome page with demo projects from a public MicroStrategy server. You can tap Explore the Product to have an overview of the extraordinary capabilities built in to this client.
In this recipe, we will configure the client so that it can open our COOKBOOK project.
Within your e-mail client, open the message you sent to yourself during the previous recipe:
- Tap the hyperlink in the message beginning with mstripad://; the mobile application will open automatically and download the configuration file from the web server.
- The IIS will ask for username and password:
- Type the operating system credentials you use to connect to Windows desktop.
- Once the configuration file is downloaded and stored in the client application, the COOKBOOK project will be added and will contain the default folder that was specified in the previous recipe, in our case
My Reports. You will see on the left the list of documents and reports we created so far. - Tap the first report in the list (01 Countries).
- After a while the grid will display the result, congratulations! Your mobile configuration is complete!
The configuration is actually an XML file that the iPad downloads via HTTP. Just out of curiosity you can open it with a text editor and see what's inside:
<taskResponse statusCode="200"> <cnf n="iPad_COOKBOOK" cid="164d6b93-baf3-4659-8bab-834aa56ac9bf" v="1" bld="9.3.000.055J" dt="2" cntr="0"><lnk am="3" rt="0" nm="192.168.1.89" po="80" ipo="true" bu="192.168.1.89:80/MicroStrategyMobile/asp/TaskAdmin.aspx"/><cty><wsdc am="3" lo="Davide moraschi" ps="********" ow="true"/><wsl><ws po="80" pt="MicroStrategyMobile" ty="1" rt="0" udc="true" nm="192.168.1.89">
As you will soon realize, your operating system and MicroStrategy username/password are clearly stored inside this file, not bad from a security point of view. So, just to be safe, when you roll out your production environment, remember to use specific ad-hoc credentials.
If, for any reason (including security), the configuration file is not an option in your environment, you can manually configure the client from the Settings menu. Look on the upper-right corner of the application, there is a round information icon: tap it, and from the menu select Settings. Use the previous recipe as a reference to fill in the Mobile Server, project, and account options.