Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Summary

Business data is stored throughout your organization and, with the extended capabilities of MOSS 2007, throughout your SharePoint sites. This chapter defined the data sources that need to be combined into dashboards so that they provide meaningful, contextual information, allowing users to derive knowledge and take action. We use the SharePoint dashboards to create the business intelligence platform, configure the business data sources, and then apply filters to pass parameters and values from the user or from the context to the data on the dashboard. In addition to the basic filter matching provided in SharePoint pages, we created advanced filter relationships by configuring the filter parameters in the data source and connecting those parameters to filter Web Parts on the page.