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How to Configure SharePoint Infrastructure for Dashboards

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

Before you can create and deploy dashboards for use on the Self-Service Portal in System Center 2012 – Service Manager, you must configure Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and then install Dashboard Designer.

To configure SharePoint infrastructure for dashboards

  1. Open your web browser, navigate to your top-level site in SharePoint 2010, click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings.

  2. Under Site Collection Administration, click Site collection features. On the Features page, click Activate next to SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and PerformancePoint Services Site Features.

  3. Enable the new features at the parent Site level by opening the site that you want to be the parent of your Business Intelligence site. Then, under Site Actions, click Site Settings. Under Site Actions, click Manage site features. Click Activate next to SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and PerformancePoint Services Site Features.

  4. Next, add a Business Intelligence Center site by opening the site that you want to be the parent of the new site. Click Site Actions, and then click New Site. On the New SharePoint Site page, select the Business Intelligence Center site template, type a title and a URL name, and then click Create.

  5. As an option, you can create the Business Intelligence Center Site under the Service Manager Self-Service Portal Site. To do this, apply the SMPortalTheme: click Site Actions, click Site Settings, and then under Look and Feel, click Site theme. Click Specify a theme, click SMPortalTheme, and then click Apply.

  6. Next, configure the PerformancePoint Unattended Service Account by opening the SharePoint Central Administration page. Then, under Application Management, click Manage service applications. Click PerformancePoint Service Application, and then click PerformancePoint Service Application Settings. Type your credentials in the Secure Store and Unattended Service Account area, and then click OK.

  7. If an error message appears that says “The Unattended Service Account cannot be set for the service application,” you can resolve this problem by doing the following:

    1. Navigate to the SharePoint 2012 Central Administration page, and then under Application Management, click Manage service applications.

    2. Click Secure Store Service, and then click Generate New Key.

    3. Type a pass phrase, and then click OK.

  8. On the new Business Intelligence Center site page that you created, move your mouse over the Monitor Key Performance area of the page, and then click Start using PerformancePoint Services.

  9. If an error message appears that says “An error occurred during the processing of <FolderPath>/<PageName>.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file,” you can resolve this problem by inserting the following information into the Web.config file between the PageParserPaths tags of your SharePoint site:

    <PageParserPaths>  
<PageParserPath VirtualPath=”<FolderPath>/<PageName>.aspx” CompilationMode=”Always” AllowServerSideScript=”true”/>  
</PageParserPaths>

  10. On the new page, click Run Dashboard Designer, and then in the Application Run – Security Warning dialog box, click Run to install PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer. Later, you can start Dashboard Designer from the Start menu.

See Also

Creating and Deploying Dashboards