One of the new features in Visio 2010 is the ability to create data driven diagrams and dashboards, and post them directly to SharePoint repositories for everyone to access. This opens up a new BI tool for the users to take advantage of.
In this example we will show how you can use Visio to create these Pivot Diagrams. It’s pretty darn cool.
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One of the new features in Visio 2010 is the ability to create data driven diagrams and dashboards, and post them directly to SharePoint repositories for everyone to access. This opens up a new BI tool for the users to take advantage of.
In this example we will show how you can use Visio to create these Pivot Diagrams. It’s pretty darn cool.
To create a data driven Visio document, choose the PivotDiagram template when you create a new document. If you have not used this before, then you can find it in the Business group.
Some of the results have 0 values, so we can filter them out on the dashboard by just selecting the measure, and choosing the Configure Measure option.
Now we can change data that is being displayed, and add some gauges. To do this, select the Edit Data Graphic from the Data Graphic button in the ribbon bar.
One of the benefits of using Visio is that you can add additional embellishments to the diagram. In this next step we will add a background image, and make the diagram look a little more elegant. To start off we will just add a world map…
There are two entries in the data that we are not too concerned with, but rather than delete the entries, if you select the panels, you can choose to merge the two nodes together. This is useful for manually tweaking data groups.