Using links in documents

You can create the experience of navigating through a native app by adding links between documents. Each document becomes a page or panel in your app, which a user can access from, for example, a button or tab bar.

You can also create links that perform actions or open other applications. For example, a document designer can include a link that dials a store phone number. The following topics are covered:

• Opening a device's installed applications from documents. You can use links that interact with applications installed with mobile devices, such as email or text messaging.

• Linking to reports and documents from a mobile document. A link lets the user execute another document or report (the target) from a document (the source). Parameters can be passed to answer any prompts or set any selectors that are in the target.

• Using links to access features within the MicroStrategy Mobile application. You can use links in a document to access specific features within the MicroStrategy Mobile application for iPhone or iPad. Examples are viewing a folder and emailing a screenshot of the document.

• Linking from documents with buttons and tab bars. A button can send a user to the various screens, such as the Home screen or the Report List, on an iPad, iPhone, or Android device. A button can open a web page, or run a report or document. You can add a single button to a dashboard, multiple buttons with different formatting in different locations on the dashboard, or a bar of buttons that are all formatted the same, called a tab bar.

• Storing links on NFC tags on Android devices. You can store a link on Near Field Communications (NFC) tags to open a report, document, or folder on an Android device.