This makes it easier to
group items. For example, in companies that have many scorecards, it might help to
categorize them by functional area.
Choosing to grant Read permissions to all users who are authenticated to the
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server automatically adds all users to a role for that
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particular item. Without checking this, the developer will have to set up permissions
as an added step later. Figure 5-4 shows the dialog box that appears when creating a
new Analysis Services data source named AdvWorks.
Once the data source has been created, a settings window containing three tabs
appears in the main work area: Editor, Properties, and Time. With an Analysis
Services data source, there are two primary options on the Editor tab: use a standard
connection or use a custom connection string. It??™s usually sufficient to use a standard
connection, but there are some cases where custom connection string parameters are
passed to Analysis Services to enable certain features. For this example, a standard
connection will suffice. A standard connection requires the name of the server
on which Analysis Services is running. Once the server name has been entered,
dropping down the list box for Database will show the databases that are available
on that particular server.
Figure 5-3 The data source types included with PerformancePoint Server
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NOTE
If a database exists on the server but does not appear in the list, this is due to how the
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server connects to Analysis Services.
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