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 ...

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