Introduction to Dashboards in CRM 4.0 Robert Peledie CRM Consultant Chorus IT.

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Introduction to Dashboards in CRM 4.0 Robert Peledie CRM Consultant Chorus IT

Transcript of Introduction to Dashboards in CRM 4.0 Robert Peledie CRM Consultant Chorus IT.

Introduction to Dashboards in CRM 4.0

Robert PeledieCRM Consultant

Chorus IT

Options for Creating Dashboards in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Windows SharePoint Service (WSS 3.0) + Office Web Part

Windows SharePoint Service (WSS 3.0) + Reporting Services Web Part

ASP. Net + Fusion Charts or Dundas

CRM Analytics Accelerators

SharePoint (MOSS 2007)

Silverlight

Why Does Life Have to

be Complicated?

Creating a Dashboard with Report Builder 2.0

Familiar Office like environment

Easy to use wizards for Tables and Charts

Build The Report

“Personally, it took me, not more than 10 minutes to create my very first report using Report Builder 2.0. “ – CRM Team Blog

Review

• Report building doesn’t have to be complicated.

• Report Builder can give you rich easy to read reports. Sometimes what you see is more telling than what you read – Gary’s Stone!

• Ability to view within CRM or as hosted Dashboard brings your data to life.

And Finally........

• http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/11/10/reports-for-crm-4-0-using-sql-server-2008-and-report-builder-2-0.aspx

[email protected]• If anyone needs some more help with either

uploading a report to report server or hosting it within an ASPX page, please let me know.Thank You

ASPX Code to view report<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-

transitional.dtd"> <%@ Page Language="C#" %> <html dir="ltr" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60;"/> <title>Chorus IT Cases</title> </head><body><form id="form1" runat="server"> <iframe name="I1" id="I1" src="http://localhost/ReportServer?%2fopencases&rs:Command=Render&rc:Toolbar=false"

style="width: 1024px; height: 768px" scrolling="no">Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.

</iframe> </form></body></html>