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304CHAPTER 8 ■ SHAREPOINT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONSFigure 8-5. Creat<strong>in</strong>g a dashboard from a <strong>SharePo<strong>in</strong>t</strong> listUs<strong>in</strong>g Spreadsheets as Data SourcesExcel spreadsheets deployed via Excel Services can be used as a data source for scorecards.You create a new KPI from a spreadsheet by select<strong>in</strong>g New ➤ Indicator Us<strong>in</strong>g Data <strong>in</strong> ExcelWorkbook. After you select a workbook, you can view the data and select cells for the value,goal, and warn<strong>in</strong>g levels. This is done through a pick dialog.When you select a cell, you may choose to use the value as it appears <strong>in</strong> the spreadsheetor you may create a simple formula. For example, you can multiply a cell by a value to createa threshold value. You can also simply type fixed values <strong>in</strong> for the thresholds. Figure 8-6 showsthe cell picker <strong>in</strong>terface with a cell selected and some values added by hand.

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