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You can apply other settings, but the Connect To value is the only one necessary for a functional link
between the filter and the report. Do the same for any other reports that you need to update based
on selections made in the filter.
Deploying dashboards to SharePoint
Follow these steps when you're ready to deploy your dashboard to SharePoint:
1. In Dashboard Designer, go to the Workspace Browser pane and click the PerformancePoint
Content option.
2. Click the Home tab and then click the Refresh button.
3. In the Workspace Browser pane, right-click the target dashboard and then choose Deploy to
SharePoint.
If you're publishing the dashboard for the first time to a SharePoint site, the Deploy To dialog
box opens.
4. Select the SharePoint Dashboards library that you want to use and specify a page template
for the dashboard. When completed, click OK.
After your dashboard is deployed, a browser window opens to display your dashboard.
Using PerformancePoint Dashboards
The complexity PerformancePoint dashboards varies greatly depending on who builds them and
what they're designed to show. Some PerformancePoint dashboards are simple grids, but others con-
tain highly interactive components that require some training to use.
In this section, you get a few tips for navigating, filtering, and using some of the trickier interactive
components found in PerformancePoint Dashboards.
Interacting with filters
A filter exposes a list, sometimes hierarchical, of attributes by which the data can be shown.
Attributes displayed in a filter are called members . For example, CY 2007 is a member of the Date
filter. The currently selected members are displayed at the top of the filter, as shown in
Figure 16-12.