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Offline Solutions
One of the challenges that mobile workers face on a number of levels is they typically don't have the
opportunity to remain connected to a network or the Internet. Mobile devices are intended to give us the
ability to cut ties with the corporate network and work without wires. At times, report users will need to
render reports on their desktops or have them pushed out to files or e-mail via subscriptions — and then
view the offline reports on the mobile device.
Typically, the best solution for offline reporting is to save the report to a document. Pocket Internet
Explorer will store a cached copy of an HTML report if it has been viewed online. In the case of a drill-
down report, the entire report content may not be stored in cache. When a cached drill-down report is
viewed, exploring sections that have not been previously viewed may cause the device to try to connect
and retrieve the newly requested content. Overall, caching HTML is not a comprehensive solution.
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