Creating a Mobile Application (SAP Library - BI Suite: Business Explorer)

Creating a Mobile Application

Use

You want to create a Web application that you can call up later in a mobile device (for example, a WAP-enabled mobile telephone or PDA). This kind of Web application is called a mobile application.

Procedure

You create a mobile application in basically the same way in the BEx Web Application Designer as a Web application (see Creating Web Applications with the BEx Web Application Designer ).

However, there are restrictions on the various Web items that are supported by mobile devices. See Supported Web Items to find out which Web items are supported by which devices.

You should also take into account when you create the Web application that the display options of some devices are severely limited by the size of the display and also by their ability to display colors. Some of these display options are already covered under Automatic Display Optimization for Mobile applications (see Automatic Device Recognition: Section: Optional Settings). Normally, you only need to adjust the range of data for mobile use.

Result

A mobile application created in the Web Application Designer is called up using the corresponding URL, just like a Web application.

The BW Server automatically recognizes what kind of mobile device is being used to call up the mobile application (WAP device or PDA). Rendering is carried out according to the properties of the device used (WML for WAP-enabled devices, HTML without stylesheets and with restricted JavaScript for PDAs, cHTML for i-Mode-enabled devices).

Recommendation

Since entering individual URLs on mobile devices is awkward, we recommend that you use the Role Menu Web item to call mobile applications quickly and easily. For more information, see Online Scenario.