Just a quick note to mention that the following features have been promised for CTP4 M&A.
- 'Sticky bit' filter selections - i.e. as you navigate across multiple pages, the filter selections from your previously viewed page will propagate to the next page you view preventing the user from having to choose them again.
- This does depend on you having the same definition of that filter across all pages that you wish to use it. Sounds obvious but I've seen people using Proclarity dashboard create two different product filters, one for each page and then wonder the selection on page 1 doesn't transfer to page 2.
- Non Empty rows and columns filter support for Analytic Charts and Grids.
- This one has been giving me a headache with CTP3 on a client site. Currently in CTP3 you can set up your Analytic Chart and Grid view using a drag and drop designer (which is nice) but if you then go into the query part of the designer and add either NonEmpty or Non Empty MDX statements whilst the initial data set brought back does hide the rows, as soon as you revert back to the design view (which you have to) the MDX changes are lost. Grrrrrrr
- Ability to export from your dashboard to MS Powerpoint after your have deployed it to Sharepoint.
- Ability to only publish certain web parts of your dashboard to a Sharepoint site, i.e. You only want to deploy the scorecard element of your overall dashboard to an existing Sharepoint page.