Guide to develop on Business Objects Mobile XI

Hi,
I need a guide where I can find some tips or helps so I can develop some reports to show them on my Mobile.
I can only find some guides where I can setup the server but I have everything working I have connection to our Server and I can start up my Blackberry Simulator on BO XI but is there a sort of SDK or is it just writing some reports put it on my server and test it with the Simulator.
If it is just writing reports, could I write theme with Xcelsius and deploy the on my server. I'm a little bit confused because I read/saw everything about the new 4.0 version of BO Mobile and there are some SDK's coming out Sybase and Samsung SAP Mobile SDK's.
Kind regards
Nico

Hi,
Looks like you are trying to use the new Mobile 4.0. Try reading this document
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir4/en/xi4_mobile_user_en.pdf
Pay extra attention to "Interacting with Business Intelligence Documents" (p23) section. This will give you a high level overview what type of document you can view via Mobi. Hopes it helps.
Ken

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SAP's Business Object Repository gives you an improved way to integrate business processes with external partners -- an increasingly necessary ability in the burgeoning e-marketplace economy.
The age of e has had a profound effect on the IT industry. Not only has it changed our way of life, but it has also forced systems such as SAP to embrace a new era of openness. Marketplace demands for flexible automation of inter-business workflow and intelligent data exchange have forced formerly very proprietary ERP systems to begin helping customers integrate with other companies and with e-marketplaces data formats. For the first time, companies must expose their business processes to the outside world.
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Attribute NetValue of Object BUS2032 (SalesOrder).
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Methods
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In Figure 4, the methods shown with the green LED are BAPIs that are called specifically from external systems. They can, however, be called from within the system itself. The method shown with the stop sign is obsolete, but retained for backward compatibility, and should not be used in new developments.
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Delegation and Subtyping
One of the most complex concepts in object-oriented development is that of inheritance. This concept lets you extend core functionality by creating a child of the parent object that inherits all of its attributes and methods. For example, a Manager object is a subtype (child) of the Employee object. The Manager object has all the attributes of an Employee object (such as EmployeeID or Name) but also has some extra attributes (such as CompanyCar or ParkingSpace). SAP has not implemented inheritance in the BOR. However, it has provided subtyping and delegation, which offer an alternative way to extend R/3 functionality.
Subtyping
A subtype of an object is another object whose creation is based upon a parent object (see the preceding manager/employee example). The subtype maintains references to all the attributes and methods of its parent object. This means that any methods and attributes defined on the parent can be executed and accessed on the child object. I have often heard less-experienced developers refer to subtyping as copying the parent object. Although the effects can be similar, in order to achieve an understanding of some of the more advanced concepts, such as interface inheritance, it is important to realize that this is not accurate.
If a subtype object were merely a copy of its parent, then all the code contained within the parent would be physically copied to the child. This is not the case. The subtype simply maintains references to its parents methods and attributes. The real difference is that the subtype lets you redefine these methods and attributes. You can easily add your own business rules to the parent methods by redefining the subtypes method. In the following example, I will show why this distinction is so important.
Subtyping Case Study
As an ABAP developer at Acme Tyres Pty. Ltd., you have been given the task of implementing some security measures for the companys online store. The requirement is simple: The password must be at least six characters long.
Modifying SAP code leads to costly and complicated upgrades due to the modified code being overwritten by the newly delivered SAP code. Therefore, The challenge is finding a way of implementing the business logic without modifying SAP code.
After some investigation, you realize that the method CHANGEPASSWORD (in BAPI) on the object KNA1 (Customer) is called when customers change their passwords. All you need to do is create a subtype of KNA1 and then redefine the CHANGEPASSWORD method adding the ABAP code to ensure that the password is a minimum of six characters long. It is of course not wise to change SAP code even assuming you have the passwords, which can be provided only be SAP. After the method is redefined, you just need to implement the business rules in ABAP.
FIGURE 5 Redefinition of ChangePassword method.
It is imperative that once you redefine the method it still behaves in a similar manner. You are allowed to add extra business logic, but the method must still change the password rather than do something unexpected, like delete a customer. This is particularly important when SAP is being accessed from external systems. The external system will expect a method to provide certain functionality. The developer should take care to ensure that this expectation is met.
Delegation
Now that you have implemented a new CHANGEPASSWORD method, you need to tell the SAP system to use the redefined version of CHANGEPASSWORD and not the version that was delivered on the KNA1 object. This is similar to object-oriented inheritance but the two concepts do have fundamental differences.
Delegation for objects.
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Execution flow for methods with delegation.
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Lets take, for example, the requirement to be able to update a sales order. This is a common requirement and one that SAP usually implements for you. For the sake of the example, lets assume that SAP has not implemented this method. You will need to implement your own UPDATE method on one of the business objects. The question here is: Which object? This question is what I term as defining responsibility. Which object is responsible for having the UPDATE method on it? As shown in Figure 4, the answer in this cases is BUS2032 (SalesOrder). If you put it on any other object then you run the risk of no one else knowing of its existence. Next time there is a requirement to update a sales order, the developer will develop an additional method. You would then have two separate pieces of code that implement the same functionality. This duplication doubles development, testing, and maintenance requirements. On large projects, this can become a real problem and a maintenance and testing nightmare.
SAP recognizes the challenges facing developers in the e-business era. It is aware that if it wants to take R/3 to the next phase, it needs to continue evolving the ABAP language and ensure that powerful development tools are available to SAP developers.
Rising to the challenge, SAP has begun developing extensions to the ABAP language called ABAP objects (see "Introducing ABAP Objects," in the IntelligentERP feature archive for an excellent introductory article to ABAP objects by Jürgen Heymann and Horst Keller). These extensions will provide ABAP developers with a full range of object-oriented tools. Eventually, these new extensions will make BOR obsolete. However, the use of object-oriented development is sure to be an integral part of future SAP developments, regardless of where the world of e takes us.
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