Using PerformancePoint Services - Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - page 218

FIGURE 8-1 The various PerformancePoint elements.
Filters
A filter is a Web Part object with which dashboard users can select a subset of the data rendered on a
dashboard. You can apply value-based filters, such as “Top 10” or “is more than,” to analytic reports,
but you do not create these value-based filters with Dashboard Designer; the filters are automatically
available to users when you deploy a dashboard.
When you create a reusable dashboard filter, you must save it to SharePoint Server. Including
value-based filters in a dashboard, you give dashboard users the ability to focus on more specific
information.
Parts of the dashboard designer
Figure 8-2 provides a quick overview of the major features in the dashboard, and the list that follows
it describes the numbered elements.