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It has been a REALLY busy year at Extended Results our consulting company. We have had some tremendous growth in regards to customers and employees along with generating some new and interesting intellectual property. I have been using QuickBooks for
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Had a question come up about how to use a SharePoint document library within PPS. Use the following steps to create it. Open SharePoint Designer and open your SPS site Create an ASP.NET page Drag and drop your document library onto the page Attach the
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When using PPS M&A Treeview Filters on a scorecard, it has a default maximum values of about 200 members and then it doesn't show anymore. You can increase the number of members by adding the following tag in the SharePoint web.config file. < add
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Example of Issue: Exec Owner, and Update Frequency both custom KPI Properties repeat illustrating an instance for both time members FY08 and FY09. The desired effect is to show the YTD Target and Actual repeat for FY08 and FY09 but render the Properties
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If you want your credentials to pass throughout all your servers for PPS to work correctly, you really need to enable Kerbero's. I found a couple great articles that explain this and the process to do it. Enjoy... http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx
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Since PPS M&A requirements SharePoint, I bet you find yourself doing a lot of SharePoint setup and development. I found the following link today that I have found kind of useful. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pedia/pages/home.aspx
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I got this from an internal document on how to install PPS on the same machine that has Active Directory installed. Domain Controllers While it's not a hard-and-fast rule, most AD administrators will tell you that a domain controller should not run other
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I saw this question on an internal Microsoft alias, so I answered it and several people like the answer so I figured I should blog it... Question : What are the possibilities for combining Dashboard elements (KPIs, scorecards, filters and reports) with
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Found this article on PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics performance tuning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb660539.aspx
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This is from my BI Manager Kristi Taylor We recently began the process of migrating a PPS Application from our development environment into test and into production. We utilized the Planning Server Data Migration Wizard to help us accomplish this task.
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PPS M&A requires AJAX v1.0 installed. Well, recently Microsoft released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the AJAX. Well, on a couple of my server rebuilds using .NET Framework 3.5, SharePoint runs just fine. But, when I install PPS M&A, it
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You know, there used to be a neat feature in BSM2005 that when you clicked on a KPI you could redirect to a URL. Well, that feature didn't make it over to PPS 2007. BUT, do not fret, there is a work around. I found the following article on the PPS Team
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So, if you where like me and hit F1 for help when trying to figure out the time intelligence expressions and couldn't find any meaningful factoids, please use the following link. It is a very powerful feature if you know the sytax. Thanks for the pointer
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Today we have another blog entry by Kristi Taylor who does a lot of PPS M&A and Planning projects for us. Here is an example I built for allowing users the option to select alternative views of charts and reports designed specifically for each KPI:
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So when you are building your PerformancePoint Server solutions, if you have everything on one machine it works great, but when you setup seperate machines, security always becomes kind of a pain. You need to setup Kerberos to setup trust between the
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