BI Mobile 4.0 for iPad

Question

And finally, yesterday was released the BI Mobile for iPad.
We already have a BO 4.0 SP01 server with BO mobile installed and running (i can connect there by using Windows Mobile emulator).
When creating the connection to BO server from the iPad application, I don't know which url address I must write there.
Is the url to BI Launchpad? Or is a url to web services?
http://myboserver:8080
http://myboserver:8080/BOE/BI
http://myboserver:8080/dswsbobje/services
Any of these addresses returns me a Connection failed error: There was a problem communicating with the web proxy server.
There is no help published yet, so any help will be appreciated.
Sergi Marin

Answer 1

Hello everybody,
thanks to Deepu I managed to get the iPad app connecting with our BOXI server now, too.
Once again, you need to have/install
>> BOXI 3.1 SP4
>> BOXI 3.1. Mobile Server SP4 ( First I was not aware of this product - be sure to install SP4 for this component as well!)
Having that you find MobileBIService.war within the folder <installation folder>\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\java\applications. Copying this war file to Tomcat's webapps folder should automatically result in the deployment of the corresponding Web application.
One additional remark: I could not open the MobileBIService web application via my browser, i.e. calling the URL http://<server name>:<port number>/MobileBIService/ lead to an error. I ignored this because I guess the web application serves only as a kind of middleware between the app and the "classic" BOXI server.
After deploying the WAR you have a folder <installation folder>\Business Objects\Tocat55\webapps\MobileBIService where you can find the mobi.properties file in subfolder WEB-INF. I let the properties file unchanged, i.e. the only category is "Mobile".
The idea of the categories is, that all Web Intelligence files which are "tagged" with this category can be downloaded/displayed in the iPad app. All other WebI reports are not accessible via iPad.
On iPad I specified <server name>:<port number> as "Server URL", i.e. I did enter nor "http://"neither the name of the web application (MobileBIService), just server name and port number! I specified the "CMS Name" together with the port number (normally 6400), i.e <CMS name>:<port number>.
And then it works...
...finally!
Michael