Reports in Ipad/Mobile

[Cognos8]

customers are accessing the Cognos reports using mobile devices and Ipad, the resolution of Cognos Reports are not fitting in mobile devices. This creates horizontally scrollable pages in the mobile device when we try to access the web portal using mobile.

Is there any way using which we can integrate Cognos reports in the java web portal which can provide output which will fit in users screen be it mobile or desktop?

Do we need to create two different sets of reports for desktop and Mobile/Ipad? or while creating report itself we can define the standard size to fit in to Ipad/Mobile?

Anyother alternative options?

[bdbits]

There are multiple places to set width/height properties, but then you have to decide what to do if your content exceeds those bounds. Even if you set fixed sizes, what do you want to happen if the content exceeds the fixed size, e.g. a description is too long? You will want to think about these kinds of issues before you start controlling the layout at this level.

You will probably want to do one of two things. You can set size on the data containers (list, crosstab, etc.), or if you have multiple objects you can use a block and set it's size. For the data container, look at properties under Positioning; you will probably want to go into Table Properties and check Fixed Size. If you use a block, you will want to either clip the content or set it to use scrollbars, otherwise it will just overflow the block.

[MFGF]

customers are accessing the Cognos reports using mobile devices and Ipad, the resolution of Cognos Reports are not fitting in mobile devices. This creates horizontally scrollable pages in the mobile device when we try to access the web portal using mobile.

Is there any way using which we can integrate Cognos reports in the java web portal which can provide output which will fit in users screen be it mobile or desktop?

Do we need to create two different sets of reports for desktop and Mobile/Ipad? or while creating report itself we can define the standard size to fit in to Ipad/Mobile?

Anyother alternative options?

The mobile app is supposed to scale the report to fit the horizontal dimension of the available screen - all modern versions do, at any rate. Normally the only scrolling will be vertical?

MF.

[bdbits]

Does it do that even for very wide content? I mean, you can only scale so much before usability becomes an issue. My thoughts were more toward general sizing for specific resolutions rather than anything specific to mobile. We try to keep reports resolution independent, but it can be non-trivial in certain situations to do this and also keep it useable on lower resolution devices.

I need to play with the mobile clients more. We only have one department dipping their toes into it, but I expect more interest sooner rather than later.

P.S. Anybody else remember when 800x600 was high resolution (Super VGA)? Now my phone has more pixels than my desktop.  :o