Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Creating Dashboards in Dashboard Designer

When you have loaded Dashboard Designer, as described in the previous section, you are ready to start creating dashboards in your local workspace.

To begin adding components to be stored on the SharePoint server, a connection to a specific SharePoint site needs to be established. To do so, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Office button, and then click the Designer Options button.
2. In the Options dialog box, click the Server tab.
3. The Server settings tab prompts for a URL, as shown in Figure 30.6. Enter the name of the SharePoint site where you intend to store your dashboard components.

   Figure 30.6. Set the URL for the SharePoint site in Dashboard Designer Options.

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The SharePoint site ...