PerformancePoint: Using Connection Formula to Pass Filter Values to Report Having Role Playing Dimension

Date dimension is inevitably used in most dashboards. Due to its role playing nature, a specific date dimension used as slicer in one report is different from the date dimension used for another report on the same dashboard page. For example sales reports are based on order date whereas delivery reports are based on delivery dates. On a dashboard that displays both sales and delivery reports, it would not be good for navigation purposes to have both order date and deliver date filters on the same page. The choice of which date dimension to use as filter among the available dates is a tactical decision. Having chosen a particular date dimension, the challenge is to provide filter value to those reports that use a different date dimension. This is where PerformancePoint filter Connection Formula comes into play as explained in the example below.