The latest project I worked on had a heavy dose of PerformancePoint and one of the requirements was to launch Analysis Services Actions from PerformancePoint dashboard objects. I knew this was possible but did not no all the limitations that exist when you want to do this. Most of the available post reference PerformancePoint 2007 so I thought it was time to update the topic. I mentioned there are a lot of caveats to doing actions in PerformancePoint so I came up with this quick flowchart to fir...
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I apologize ahead of time on this post today because it will require lots of pre explanation and screenshots to set the stage for what I want to show you! Often when building a report with multiple row groupings I like to change the default way SSRS places the fields on the report. Default multiple row groups: While this behavior is fine it can lead to a lot of useless white space when browsing the report. . So what I like to do is still have the three groups by eliminate all that dead space. Of...
PASS Summit is quickly approaching and while many of you are registering I wanted to remind you of some of the great Pre Conference seminars that are available (more specifically mine!). On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Brian Knight and I will be presenting on building a BI Solution from the ground up in our seminar called ?Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform?. Brian and I have presented several times together on the topic and we would love to have you join us for a full ...