Creating a Dashboard

The previous sections walked through the process of creating KPIs, scorecards, and reports. As noted earlier in the chapter, scorecards and reports are examples of web parts that appear on dashboard web pages. The final steps of the process demonstrate how to make these contents viewable on dashboard pages in SharePoint:

1. In the Create Ribbon, select Dashboard. You can select any of the Dashboard page templates.
2. In the Workspace Browser, rename the dashboard to Product Sales Dashboard.
3. In the Pages section of the working area, click Page 1, and rename it to Product Sales.
4. In the Details pane, expand Scorecards, and expand PerformancePoint Content. Drag the Product Sales scorecard into one of the dashboard zones.
5. In the Details pane, expand Reports, and expand PerformancePoint Content. Drag AdventureWorks Sales Chart onto the other zone.
6. In the Workspace Browser, right-click on Product Sales Dashboard, and select Deploy to SharePoint.
7. Select one of the master page options, and click OK.
8. After the deployment is complete, the dashboard page launches in Internet Explorer, as shown in Figure 30.20.

   Figure 30.20. PerformancePoint Dashboard page.