Setting up a mobile connection
Following from the previous recipe, we are now creating a configuration file with the connection settings that we can later distribute to our mobile users.
Configuration files are different depending on the device you are using; so there's one for iPad, one for iPhone, Android, and so on. The vast majority of the steps are similar from platform to platform; please refer to the product documentation MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide for specific or nonstandard settings.
Mobile configuration can be done in two ways: automatically with a configuration file (like in this recipe) or manually on the mobile device itself. The advantage of the former method is that you can re-use the file for as many clients as you want.
Getting ready
Mobile devices communicate with the Mobile Server through HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) much like an Internet browser does, therefore it is vital that they are connected to the network somehow, by means of Wi-Fi, 3G...
