The standard operational reports that come with PerformancePoint will allow you to report on a variety of PerformancePoint admin related activities, such as cycles, assignments, forms, jobs and associations.
I find that the assignments report is particularly useful – after all, finding out who has/hasn’t submitted is an important part of any data-gathering exercise. Whilst it is useful, I do find that the assignments report is the one that admin users want changed, especially when a model site exists containing many cycles and assignments.
Extra Functionality
With a large PPS Planning implementation you can easily end up with many assignment instances, cycles and users. I’ve been involved in such an implementation recently, and, due to the large number of assignments, the admin user requested a bit more filtering capability than the out of the box assignments report provides.
Also, the existing assignments report tells will tell you that user A has submitted their assignment, but it won’t go into any detail about what the submission actually contained. E.g. did the user submit all their entities? For some users it is quite key to know what other users have been submitting – for one thing it makes navigation easier if as an approver you know exactly which department/entity to pick in the assignment filters.
Examples
By knowing which tables to use, you can write an SSRS report that provides the additional functionality mentioned above.
The starting point is to get the base report query right. In my case, as I’m in a separate auditing database, the query goes inside a custom stored procedure, and is as follows:
SELECT A.AssignmentId, C.CycleInstanceName, AD.AssignmentDefName, A.AssignmentName, U.UserId, U.UserName, ENT.Name AS EntityName, CUST.Name As CustomerName, CASE WHEN A.Status = 'partial' OR A.Status = 'Approved' OR A.Status = 'Submitted' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS Draft_Submitted, CASE WHEN A.Status = 'Approved' OR A.Status = 'Submitted' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END As Final_Submitted, CASE WHEN A.Status = 'Approved' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS Approved, Approve.UserName As Approver FROM dbo.Assignments A LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.[MG_Planning_MeasureGroup_default_partition] Fact ON A.AssignmentID = Fact.AssignmentID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.AssignmentDefinitions AD ON AD.AssignmentDefID = A.AssignmentDefID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.CycleInstances C ON C.CycleInstanceID = A.CycleInstanceID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.D_Entity ENT ON ENT.MemberId = Fact.Entity_MemberId LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.D_Customer CUST ON CUST.MemberId = Fact.[Customer_MemberId] LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.BizUsers U ON U.UserID = A.ContributorUserId LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.ApproverList AL ON AL.AssignmentID = A.AssignmentId LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.BizUsers Approve ON Approve.UserID = AL.ApproverUserID
You can figure out most of the tables to use by looking at a view called AssignmentsView within the application database.
One thing that I have taken into account is assignment definitions. If you have large number of users completing an assignment, then the chances are that you will have set up an assignment definition that points at a business role or a submission hierarchy. You ideally want to be able to filter on the assignment definition to return all assignment instances that belong to that assignment definition. Therefore, in my case I have three filters for the report, but you could easily add more:
The final view is a report that shows the status of the assignments returned by the filter, but also, when expanded, shows the the entities and customers that the contributor has submitted:
The above is just a taster of what can be achieved. A couple of ways that it can be extended include:
- Integrating with Sacha’s data auditing idea to provide detailed history on what values the contributor has changed;
- Including comments, annotations and deadlines.
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