Setting up PerformancePoint

Mark Hodnett

• October 17, 2012 01:52

Hopefully someone will find this info useful: 

I was running into problems setting up a BI site and have PowerPivot and Powerview working with my own content. I was trying to set-up some PerformancePoint content and could not create a datasource using Dashboard Designer.

Here were my steps: 

1. On RDP in the machine, I navigate to http://cNNNNNNNN/sites/BI/Pages/ppssample.aspx 
2. I click on the Run Dashboard Designer button 
3. Dashboard Designer comes up. 
4. I right-click on Data Source and select Create. 
5. Select Analysis Services and press OK 
6. I get an error saying PerformancePoint is not working.

 

The solution I found was this:  

Central Admin > Application Management > Configure service application associations > default.

A modal popup should appear and PerformancePoint Services will be unchecked. Check that box and click OK.

Also see this MSDN post.  

Thanks!  

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  Peter Franks

  • October 17, 2012 20:12

  Awesome fix Mark!  Thanks! 

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  Alexander Borenshtein

  • March 11, 2013 04:39

  Thanks a lot, i spent more than 4 hours and eventuly saw your solution.

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  Michael Lucero

  • November 06, 2013 17:19

  Perfect.  Thank you Mark.

  @ Cloudshare... Why isn't PerformancePoint fully configured?  We've spent HOURS troubleshooting why the dashboard designer errored out when connecting to a datasource. This is not a good customer experience. 

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  Peter Franks

  • November 06, 2013 17:31

  Hey Michael, while we try to make sure all of our templates are perfect, there will be some minor settings that slip through like this.  I'll make sure our template team get this fixed in the base template.  

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  Michael Lucero

  • November 06, 2013 20:36

  Much appreciated 

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