Oracle BI Mobile App Designer Release 2
A while ago, Oracle has made the second release of BI Mobile App Designer (BIMAD) available. The official version name is 11.1.1.7.10-BIMAD-PS1 and it can be downloaded as BI patch 18794832 from My Oracle Support.
Here at Siebel Essentials, we're always fond of new features, so we took the new BIMAD for a test drive.
Here is the short list of new features:
The complete list of new features and enhancements can be found on the What's New page of the official user guide.
UI Redesign
The first thing that strikes the eye - apart from the new overall Skyros theme - is that the designer got redesigned.
One of the major changes is the removal of the ribbon-style navigation, replacing for example the component selection with a plus (+) icon. In addition, the properties of the selected element are now edited on the right side.
New Map Component
The screenshots above shows the new map component. Of course the underlying data must contain geographic data which could be the name or three-letter code of a country (e.g. "France" or "FRA"), state or county of the US or latitude/longitude information.
New Exploration Page
This is a new page type which adds sophisticated filtering and prompting capabilities for tablet applications (not available for phone apps).
Global Filters
The new global filters feature allows app developers to specify reusable filter definitions which can be applied to components to limit the data set available to the end user.
Calculated Fields
Developers can now create calculated fields and use them in the components. The screenshot below (from the user guide) shows the expression editor for calculated fields.
Support for Multi-Select
BIMAD cannot deny its BI Publisher heritage. The List component (formerly known as "Filters") now supports multi-select as well.
Plugin SDK and Gallery
BI Publisher (and the first version of BIMAD) support custom plug-ins to be added as new data visualization components. In release 2 of BIMAD, the good people at Oracle have added an SDK for easier development of custom plug-ins.
If you are inclined to create custom plugins, you will have to install Node.js(!). Then you can use the plugin gallery to define and download an initial set of files with sample data.
Once the plug-in is developed, it must be uploaded so it becomes available in the gallery.
Summary
As fellow blogger Christian Screen put it eloquently: "BI got MAD and you should be happy." The latest release of BIMAD provides a welcome round of enhancements and new features. So don't get MAD, get BIMAD ;-)
have a nice day
@lex
Here at Siebel Essentials, we're always fond of new features, so we took the new BIMAD for a test drive.
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| BIMAD sample app showcasing the new map feature |
- UI Redesign
- New Map component
- New Exploration page
- Global filters
- Calculated fields
- Support for multi-select
- Plugin SDK and Gallery
The complete list of new features and enhancements can be found on the What's New page of the official user guide.
UI Redesign
The first thing that strikes the eye - apart from the new overall Skyros theme - is that the designer got redesigned.
 |
| BIMAD Release 2 Designer UI. Click to enlarge. |
New Map Component
The screenshots above shows the new map component. Of course the underlying data must contain geographic data which could be the name or three-letter code of a country (e.g. "France" or "FRA"), state or county of the US or latitude/longitude information.
New Exploration Page
This is a new page type which adds sophisticated filtering and prompting capabilities for tablet applications (not available for phone apps).
Global Filters
The new global filters feature allows app developers to specify reusable filter definitions which can be applied to components to limit the data set available to the end user.
Calculated Fields
Developers can now create calculated fields and use them in the components. The screenshot below (from the user guide) shows the expression editor for calculated fields.
Support for Multi-Select
BIMAD cannot deny its BI Publisher heritage. The List component (formerly known as "Filters") now supports multi-select as well.
Plugin SDK and Gallery
BI Publisher (and the first version of BIMAD) support custom plug-ins to be added as new data visualization components. In release 2 of BIMAD, the good people at Oracle have added an SDK for easier development of custom plug-ins.
If you are inclined to create custom plugins, you will have to install Node.js(!). Then you can use the plugin gallery to define and download an initial set of files with sample data.
Once the plug-in is developed, it must be uploaded so it becomes available in the gallery.
Summary
As fellow blogger Christian Screen put it eloquently: "BI got MAD and you should be happy." The latest release of BIMAD provides a welcome round of enhancements and new features. So don't get MAD, get BIMAD ;-)
have a nice day
@lex
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