Leveraging Performance Point Services - Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools for Excel Analysts - page 322

Dashboard navigation
A dashboard is comprised of links, filters, views, and cells or chart points (collectively called cells ).
User interactions occur either at the page level, as when clicking a link or changing a filter, or within a
view, as when drilling down on a cell. Links make it possible to navigate from one dashboard page to
another, each with different data and page layouts.
In PerformancePoint, all navigational links appear at the upper-left corner of the dashboard page.
When navigating from one page to another, you see the same filter selections if the same filter
appears in both pages.
Dashboard interactive capabilities
Many dashboard reports give the user additional capabilities. These features are designed to make
the dashboard conform to more of a “self-service” reporting paradigm and allow for data-driven busi-
ness decisions.
Right-click a chart or grid report — not a data point in a chart — and you find these options to
manipulate your data:
➤ Pivot your data. Choose Pivot and the X and Y dimensions are swapped in the view. You can
often get additional insights in the data.
➤ Change your report type. Choose Report Type and then select a different type. Changing
the report type allows you to view the same data in different ways, sometimes deriving addi-
tional insights into the data as you change the view. For example, you can change a line
chart to a bar chart or a grid. Sometimes this spotlights interrelationships in the data more
effectively.
➤ Format your report. Choose Format Report and then select a new format. In a grid report,
you can switch between compact and tabular layouts. In a chart, you can move the legend or
remove it completely. Sometimes moving the legend makes a chart more readable.
➤ Show all available filters. Choose Show Information Bar and all currently applied filters are
displayed at the top of the report, making it easy to see which filters are currently selected in
the dashboard. This is especially important if you have a report open in its own window to
make it easier to see the data points, and you can no longer view the dashboard filters at a
glance without tabbing back to the dashboard Web page.