Note that in this image, the user has drilled down from the Product Line level
to the Model level for accessories only. In other words, clicking the Accessory
bar in the previous view only drills down on that item and excludes all others.
This is an important point to understanding the term drill down as it is used in
PerformancePoint Server and ProClarity. Drilling down means going down one level
on that item only; in other words, users will see the children for that particular item
only. Being able to see children for multiple higher-level items will be discussed
later in this chapter.
In Figure 6-5, the user has drilled down as far as possible in the Product Model
Lines hierarchy. Unfortunately, moving the mouse over a bar still shows the bar as
a clickable region, but clicking on it won??™t actually do anything. The bar actually is
right-clickable, but I??™ll discuss what happens when the user right-clicks in a moment.
Figure 6-4 Browsing an Analytic Chart allows a developer to preview the report and
drill down on it without having to first publish it to the server.
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An alternative approach to this view would be to swap the items on the
dimensions so that Gross Profit would appear on the Series and Product Model
Lines would appear on the Bottom Axis. Switching the dimensions has little change
at first, as the Big Blue Bar is still there.
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