Open a Performance Point Report in a New Window – JavaScript Solution

Same as the previous blog, we are presenting this blog as a solution to client’s request on “How to easily open a performance Point Report in a New Window?” The circumstance is actually our client has a performance Point dashboard that includes a multitude of Reporting Services reports and Performance Point Analytic Chart reports. Being just the measures of some kind of chart, the Reporting Services reports can’t be displayed. Our client wanted the solution to click on them and exhibit the underlying data.

Well… being that typical bug fixer, one of our Offshore SharePoint developers tried to dig out the problem first. The problem was actually the comprehensive data our client wanted to display was actually a bit large than the dash space allotted for actual chart or SSRS gauge. Therefore, all we needed is the tweak to display the detail data to open in a new window.

Call it an adversity or an unawareness of Microsoft engineers, there is no option in SharePoint settings for “Open report in new window” (I really hope Microsoft engineer read thisJ). So our developers needed to write a little JavaScript. Readmore