Creating a chart using the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer
PerformancePoint Services provides the ability to create a wide range of charts, KPIs, scorecards, and filters, and integrate them all together in a dashboard. In this recipe we learn how to use the Dashboard Designer tool to create and deploy an Analytic Chart to a SharePoint page.
Getting ready
This recipe works for:
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
You will need SharePoint 2010 Enterprise with PerformancePoint Services configured. You will require a SharePoint site created from the Business Intelligence Centre template.
You need a compatible data source such as a Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP cube. In this example, we use the AdventureWorks Analysis Services database for illustration from (http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/).
You will need a SharePoint page that you want to insert your chart into.
How to do it...
Navigate to the Data Connections library in your SharePoint site. Select the Documents tab of the Library Tools...