The stories feature allows you to tell a story using interactive snapshots of dashboards and views. The snapshots become points in a story. This allows you to construct a guided narrative or even an entire presentation.
Let's consider an example in which story points might be useful. Executive managers are pleased with the regional scorecard dashboard you developed above. Now, they want you to make a presentation to the board and highlight some specific issues for the South region. With minimal effort, you can take your simple scorecard, add a few additional views, and tell an entire story:
First we'll build a couple of additional views. Create a simple geographic view named Profit Ratio KPI by State. Make this a filled map with the AGG (KPI - Profit Ratio) field defining the color.
Add Profit Ratio to the Detail of the Marks card so it is available for later use:
Create one additional view named Profit Ratio by Quarter. Use Order Date as a continuous date value on Columns and Profit...
