SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services : Examining Analytic Grid Reports

Just as with the analytic chart, the analytic grid works only with Analysis Services cube and PowerPivot data sources.

Note

Notice that the design area for the analytic grid looks similar to the chart design area (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. The design area for the analytic grid is similar to the chart design area.

With analytic grids, you can add measures and dimensions to rows, columns, and background. As shown in Figure 2, the measure Viewers and the attribute Year from the Date dimension were added to columns. Next, you can add the Episode dimension to Rows to produce the report shown in Figure 2. The dimension members are expandable so that you can expand a parent to view its children.

Figure 2. You can add measures to columns and rows to expand the view into your data.

Using Interactivity Features and Context Menus

Like the analytic chart, the analytical grid provides two context menus with the same options discussed in the previous section. One context menu is available by clicking the data on the chart, and the second context menu is available by clicking outside of the data in the chart (see Figure 3).

Figure 3. The analytic grid also provides two context menus.