BO Mobile - Not referring to latest instance

Question

Customer wants that his users should be able to view the latest report instance of Web-I and Desk-I documents in their respective report folders when logging in through the Blackberry.
BOE Version installed at customer's location: XI R2 SP3
OS on BOE Server: WINDOWS 2003 SP2
CMS Database Type and Version: ORACLE 10G
Application Server installed: TOMCAT
Observed Behavior:
When user logs in to BOE XI R2 through his Blackberry and navigates to the appropriate report document folder, the option to View the Latest Instance or History of a given Desk-I or Web-I report is not available.
I have also gone through the following documents:
- Using BusinessObjects Mobile (XI R2)
- What's New in BusinessObjects Mobile (XI 3.1)
- Using BusinessObjects Mobile (XI 3.1)
- BusinessObjects Mobile Installation and Deployment Guide (XI 3.1)
I have not been able to locate the required options in the above mentioned XI R2 and XI 3.1 documentation. I have also suggested the following workarounds to the customer:
a) schedule the report to "Inbox": customer did not agree to the same as in his case this would generate multiple copies of the same report based on the number of users. Customer has an installed base of 1000 users.
b) schedule the report to "Inbox" send as shortcut: customer did not agree to the same as well because the report needs to be viewed by the senior level executives. Here these users would want to view the latest report instance from the respective report folder.
c) refresh report on demand: customer did not agree to the same because it takes a long time to refresh the data and display the updated report and senior level executive would not be able to wait for that much time.
I would appreciate if anybody could advise on the following:
- any plans to add the above requirement in upcoming release of BOE?*
- any other workarounds (excluding the OpenDoc URL option)?*
Regards,
Arijit Gupta

Answer 1

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