Working with Dashboard Designer

The Dashboard Designer is just that—a tool for creating and deploying dashboards to SharePoint document libraries. It offers an incredible degree of flexibility between working with data sources and creating and formatting dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and reports. The look and feel of Dashboard Designer blends in with the rest of the Office 2007 suite of products, including the ribbon-style menus. Figure 19-35 shows the Dashboard Designer in action. The left pane is the Workspace Browser, which shows each type of function available within a current dashboard. The middle section is where dashboards are built and configured. The right pane displays the Details or available items to the currently opened dashboard. ...

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