drill down on ipad in offline mode

[Former Member]

Hi all,

i'm trying to use the drill down option on my iPad in the offline mode.

Therefore I set the scope of analysis on "Custom" to use the hierarchies defined in the universe and to load the data in the data cube.

As long as I work online I'm able to drill down and up but when I activate the "Work Offline" Option it's not possible to drill down.

But it should be possible to drill down even in Offline Mode because the scope of analysis is set and the data is loaded in the data cube, or am I wrong?

Greetings

[ashutosh_rastogi · Accepted solution]

Hi Sven,

Drill down on iPAD in offline mode is not supported, and hence it does not work for. Drill, Input Controls, Prompts ... all these are online only operations.

You are right the information is in the CUBE, but while on iPAD in offline mode it is not connected to the cube. There is no replication of cube on iPAD to support this feature as yet.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Aaaah, Input controls are online-only?!

That explains the speed of them, thanks Ashutosh.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ashutosh,

thank you for your answer. I thought that it has to work the way you describe.

To solve my online problem I did a little work around and built the drill structure with sections, which works fine because they work offline and are very fast as well.

Greetings

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sven,

i'm also having this offline drill down problem on ipad . Could you explain how you got over it ?

Regards,

Timmy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Timmy,

like Ashutosh said, drill down on iPad in offline mode wasn't supported for SP04, because the Data Cube is saved on the mobile server. I didn't test it in a newer version but I think it haven't changed since SP04.

To solve it I rebuild the drill down structure with sections. You can then use the side menu to "drill".

It feels like drill but in fact it isn't a real drill action.

In this way the application doesn't need to filter, because the whole data is in the report and so there is no need to connect to the mobile server. But because the whole data is in the report it takes more time to open it.

Greetings

[Former Member]

Hi Sven,

I can't drill down on IPAD even I'm on online mode.

Im using WebI 4.0 SP5 and SAP BO mobile 4.2.5 and save the report in drill mode.

Could you share to me what version do you use or how you set the WebI?

THanks before

Regards,

Jane

[Former Member]

Hello Jane,

I'm using SP4 with Patch 1 (Product Version: 14.0.4 Build Number: 770) and the iPad app version 4.2.5.

I set a custom hierarchy in the universe and the WebI is just saved with active drill mode.

The drill down functionality for the iPad app requires BI Plattform SP04 ( including FP03) installed.

I tried drilling with SP02 and it didn't work but after installing SP04 which includes FP03 drill down is possible.

Greetings

[theo_droste]

Hi Sven,

Is your report based on an universe or on a BICS/ Bex query source ? We are on BI4.0 FP3 SP02, but I still do not have the option to use the scope of analysis panel...

Regards,

Martijn

[Former Member]

Hi Martijn,

For my reports I'm only using universes until now.

Greetings