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iOS Mobile App Feature Compatibility

See what SAP Analytics Cloud story, digital boardroom and analytics designer functionality is compatible with the iOS mobile app.

The iOS mobile app can consume content in three modes:

Optimized Design Experience: this mode enables mobile users to benefit and leverage usability improvements in stories on iOS mobile devices. Use this mode to work
with stories created through the optimized design experience.

iOS Optimized Mode: for faster loading of stories.

Legacy Mode : Non-iOS optimized mode: this is the legacy mode for running the app.

 Note
For information on the Android app feature compatibility see Android Mobile App Feature Compatibility.

Supported and Unsupported Features for the Optimized Story Experience

With some noted exceptions, the information below applies to stories created using Optimized Design Experience or Optimized View Mode.

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What is supported with this mode? What is not supported with this Mode?

iOS devices with at least 3GB of RAM

Only available in the iOS Mobile App starting from version 2.115. Planning:

Value Driver Tree

Planning Starter

Dynamic Images

R-Visualizations

Clock

Chart footers

Smart Insights

Top N options

Analytic Applications

Data Analyzer is currently not supported in the mobile app.

Canvas pages:
Responsive pages:
Reporting layout
 Note
Info panel
You can use Responsive or Canvas pages to consume stories in the Optimized Story
Experience on your mobile app. It is however recommended to use Responsive for a better Planning Actions:
experience.
Multi Action

Canvas pages (including grid layout and some advanced features) BPC Planning Sequence

Data Action
 Note
The stories need to be set to Enable mobile support for Canvas Page. SAP Digital Boardroom

Present Mode
Althought filters appear on both the page and filter panels - you should only modify
filters in the filter panel. Device Preview

Charts
 Note
Not supported for Optimized View Mode
 Note
Forecasting in timeseries and timestamp charts is not supported.
Story interactive mode

Custom Context Menu Fullscreen option is automatically set to ON. Web Pages

Tables with limited support for the following actions: Filters and filter actions:

Swap Axis Table filters

Drill Undo/Redo

Display Options Measure/dimension/cross-calculation input controls.

Hyperlinks
 Note
Translation of thes controls is not supported.
 Note
Table cell data is read only
Complex filters (read-only support)

Themes Cascading Effect (any changes to a page filter affects all

related page filters with same dimension in the page)
 Note
Custom web font for page filter
Background gradients and background images are not supported for mobile devices.
Deeplinks
Images/Shapes

Text/Headers with Dynamic text support

RSS

Story Filters and Input Controls

Sharing and Annotation

Web Fonts

Hyperlinks

 Note
Hyperlinks to non-Optimized iOS stories will automatically set target stories to Optimized
iOS mode.

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What is supported with this mode? What is not supported with this Mode?

Prompts

Custom widgets:

 Note
Custom widget author decides in custom widget configuration (contribution.json) whether
this widget is displayed in the app.

Widget full screen Landscape mode

Bookmarks: you can apply, save, and delete.

 Note
You cannot rename bookmarks in the mobile app.

While it is possible to add a bookmark, only one mobile bookmark can be added.

A story-level linked analysis with bookmarks is not supported.

Chart Scaling

Geo maps

 Note
Only Choropleth layer supported

Popups

 Note
Popups aren’t responsive, thus likely to be cut on smaller devices. When designing popups,
make sure that their sizes are fit to mobiles.

Comment widget is supported:

 Note
Other commenting features are not supported

Local and live models (SAP HANA and SAP BW)

Mobile application management through MDMs Offline mode does not support the following features:

iOS Mobile SDK Bookmarks

Offline – limited to analytics models Geo maps

iOS Safari: Histogram charts

Measure-based filters
 Note
Supported for iPad only. For more information, see Mobile Requirements in System Filtering across models
Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.
Features not supported with iOS Safari:

Localization

Dataplane

Data Analyzer

Lite Viewer

The Lite Viewer is supported with the iOS app and IOS Safari to interact with stories designed in the Optimized Story Experience. All the unsupported features listed in Lite
Viewer Usage Restrictions are also unsupported for the Lite Viewer on the mobile app. In addition, Geo maps and pages using the legacy responsive layout are not supported in
the Lite Viewer. When an unsupported feature is detected, the story will be redirected to display in the full optimized experience viewer.

 Tip
For performance reasons, after the initial loading of a story in the iOS app, the story is opened in the full viewer while Lite Viewer support is determined. The next time you
open the story, it will open in Lite Viewer if no unsupported features have been detected.

 Restriction
Offline mode is not supported for Lite Viewer on the mobile app.

Script APIs in Optimized Story Experience

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The following APIs aren't supported:

APIs Mobile App Notes

Support

Export APIs No

Open Data Explorer APIs No

Smart Discovery APIs No

Open Smart Insight dialog APIs No

APIs related to unsupported s (such as Web Page, No

Geo Map, R Visualization)

Navigation panel APIs Limited Tablets are supported, while mobile phones aren't supported.
Support

Create navigation URL APIs No APIs such as:

NavigationUtils.createStoryUrl

NavigationUtils.createApplicationUrl

APIs related to commenting No

APIs related to BPC Planning Sequence No

APIs related to Multi Actions No execute

executeInBackground

getParameterValue

setParameterValue

APIs related to context menu No setContextMenuVisible

setQuickActionsVisibility

Working with Live Data Sources for the Optimized Story Experience

What is supported? What is not supported?

Live data connectivity Live data connectivity

Direct type connections for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type): Direct type connections for BW & HANA data
sources (authentication type):
SAML
Token-based Single Sign On to live data
Cloud Connector-based Mobile Single Sign-On
sources

Basic
SAML login using user imported

Tunnel type connection for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type): certificate

SAML SAP Datasphere connection:

HANA Cloud connection (authentication type): External Value Help

SAML

Basic

For more information on usage restrictions for this connection type see Live Data Connection to SAP HANA Cloud
Using an "SAP HANA Cloud" Connection.

SAP Datasphere connection (authentication type):

SAML

 Note
For direct SAML Connection, the IDP login is displayed for up to 60 sec to enter credentials. It closes automatically. In case
of a timed-out or failed connection, tap Story refresh to reconnect your live data source.

IDP session timeout – inconsistent reconnection to data

source.

 Note
It is recommended that you manually refresh the
story to reconnect.

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Supported and Unsupported Features for Optimized iOS Mode

What is supported with this mode? What is not supported with this Mode?

Only available in the iOS Mobile App starting from version 2.77.0 Hyperlinks in tables

Planning:

Value Driver Tree

Data Action

Dynamic Images

R-Visualizations

Clock

Geo Maps

Chart filter reset

Chart footers

Smart Insights

Translation of measure/dimension/cross-calculation input controls is not

supported

Web page

Top N options

Canvas pages: canvas and grid layouts

Data Analyzer is currently not supported in the mobile app.

iOS devices with at least 3GB of RAM Offline mode

Supported story features: SAP Digital Boardroom

Charts

 Note
Forecasting in timeseries and timestamp charts is not supported.

Tables with limited support for:

Swap Axis

Drill

Display Options

Hyperlinks

Images/Shapes

Text/Headers with Dynamic text support

RSS

Story Filters and Input Controls

Sharing and Annotation

Hyperlinks

Bookmarks: you can apply, save, and delete.

 Note
You cannot rename bookmarks in the mobile app. The translation of bookmark titles is
not supported.

While it is possible to add a bookmark, only one mobile bookmark can be added.

Widget full screen landscape mode

Deeplinks

Prompts

Device Preview:

 Note
Only available for Optimized View Mode

Chart Scaling

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What is supported with this mode? What is not supported with this Mode?

Comment widget is supported:

 Note
Other commenting features are not supported

Local and live models (SAP HANA and SAP BW)

Offline – limited to analytics models Offline mode does not support the following features:

Mobile application management through MDMs Bookmarks

Mobile SDK Geo maps

Histogram charts

Measure-based filters

Filtering across models

Working with Live Data Sources in Optimized iOS Mode

What is supported? What is not supported?

Live data connectivity Live data connectivity

Direct type connections for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type): Direct type connections for BW & HANA data
sources (authentication type):
SAML
Token-based Single Sign On to live data
Cloud Connector-based Mobile Single Sign-On
sources
Basic
SAML login using user imported
Tunnel type connection for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type): certificate

SAML

HANA Cloud connection (authentication type):

SAML

Basic

For more information on usage restrictions for this connection type see Live Data Connection to SAP HANA Cloud
Using an "SAP HANA Cloud" Connection.

S/4 live connections (authentication type):

None - Using the None authentication option allows you to connect to data source systems that use SSO that
are not based on SAML 2.0. For more information see Using the 'None' Authentication Option.

• User Name and Password - provide a user name and password for your data source system.

• SAML SSO - use this option for SAP S/4HANA on-premise versions older than 1909 (7.54) or when using the
cloud connector to connect to live SAP S/4 HANA.

• SAML SSO (Standard-Compliant) - use this option for SAP S/4HANA on-premise 1909 (7.54) versions or
newer.

SAP Datasphere connection (authentication type):

SAML

 Note
For direct SAML Connection, the IDP login is displayed for up to 60 sec to enter credentials. It closes automatically. In case
of a timed-out or failed connection, tap Story refresh to reconnect your live data source.

IDP session timeout – inconsistent reconnection to

data source.

 Note
It is recommended that you manually refresh the
story to reconnect.

Legacy mode

General Mobile App Notes

Support

iOS Touch ID Yes iPhone X does not include Touch ID. Use iOS Face ID instead.

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