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You need to prototype a solution quickly. (For example, experienced Excel users can build a
full report faster in Excel, using conditional formatting, and so on.)

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■ You need a solution that can be manipulated on the fly. (It's easy to edit Excel reports or use
the SharePoint UI to tweak dashboard pages with little or no training.)

Dashboard (Web Part) pages in SharePoint

The lightest-weight dashboard authoring tool is a simple web browser that takes advantage of the UI
that SharePoint has provided to build dashboard pages that use Web Parts.

Web Parts are logical containers on SharePoint pages that can display content. The Web Part
framework in SharePoint provides easy drag-and-drop interactivity, includes a Settings page, and
includes other UI features to make configuring pages fairly simple. Web Part pages are generally
essential for creating a dashboard-like experience in SharePoint. You would typically use Web Parts
when you need to display content from different files or products (such as Excel Services, Visio Services,
Reporting Services, and so on) on a page, when you want to display that content side by side with
other SharePoint content, or when that content needs to interact with other SharePoint entities on the
same page (such as lists or other Web Parts).

PerformancePoint dashboard pages are ordinary Web Part pages that contain various components
as connected Web Parts. The Filter, Scorecard, Report, and Stack Web Part are discussed in more
detail in the section “Creating a dashboard” in Chapter 8.

To create a dashboard (Web Part) page in SharePoint, perform the following procedure:

On your site, on the ribbon, click the Page tab (see Figure 10-3). In the Page Library group,
click the View All Pages button.

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FIGURE 10-3 Description showing in Power View.