Using Decomposition Trees to drill into the analytical charts
The analytical charts have a feature enabled that allows you to drill into any piece of data that you see and then explore it using any of the available dimensions in your cube. This is useful if you see data such as a large spike in sales, and then want to look at that data to see who the customer was that purchased the largest amount of product, and then maybe what the products were. All this is possible through the Decomposition Tree function, without leaving the dashboard chart.
In this quick recipe we will show how you can use the Decomposition Tree feature to explore the chart that we created in the previous recipe.
How to do it...
To drill into a PerformancePoint chart using the Decomposition Tree function, follow these steps:
Right-click on the data element on the analytical chart that you want to explore to open up the pop-up menu, and navigate to the Decomposition Tree menu item.
This will open up a new window allowing you...
