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Learn about report templates in PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer

Applies to: Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

You can use PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer to create dashboards and dashboard elements, such as scorecards and reports. When you create a report in Dashboard Designer, you begin with a report template.

To access the available templates, click the Create tab on the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, and then click Other Reports. When the Select a Report Template wizard opens, you can choose from a wide variety of report templates, as shown below.

The Select a Report Template dialog box contains a wide variety of report types that you can use with Dashboard Designer.

The following table lists the report templates, the data source each requires, and the kind of information each displays.

Report templates in Dashboard Designer

Use this template	With this data source	To display information in this form
Analytic Chart	SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services	Interactive bar charts or line charts
Analytic Grid	SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services	Interactive tables, which are known as grids
Excel Services	Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook that has been published to Excel Services The Excel 2007 workbook can use data in Analysis Services, an open database connectivity (ODBC) data source, or a tabular data source, such as a SQL Server table or a SharePoint list	Interactive worksheets, which you can format and customize
PivotChart	Excel 2007	Bar charts Line charts Pie charts Smoothline charts Scatter plots Bubble charts Area charts Radar charts
PivotTable	Excel 2007	Interactive tables that you can format and customize
ProClarity Analytics Server Page	ProClarity Analytics Server reports that use a variety of data sources, including SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services	ProClarity views, including Perspective View Decomposition Tree Performance Map Analytic charts Analytic grids Other ProClarity report types
Spreadsheet	Excel 2007 or Access 2007	Static worksheets
SQL Server Report	Reporting Services reports	Interactive views of existing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports
Strategy Map	Key performance indicators (KPIs) in a scorecard	Organizational charts or workflows that show performance for individual components
Trend Analysis Chart	Scorecard KPIs	Static charts that show performance of one or more metrics over time
Web Page Report	Web Servers	Internal or external Web sites

Important Before you create your report, make sure that the data source for the report has been published to PerformancePoint Monitoring Server by using Dashboard Designer. In addition, verify that you have Read permissions to the data before you create your report.

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