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Omniture Dashboard Player - Missing DLL Fix

Omniture-Dashboard_o.jpg One of the great unheralded features of SiteCatalyst is the Omniture Dashboard Player, which allows you put a slideshow of your website analytics stats in a resizable window.

This enables you to keep up with what's going on your website while doing other tasks, or even set up a display to share web stats with people in your office - helping to create a metrics-based culture for your site. The player can display any images from SiteCatalyst dashboards - so you can see long term trends, todays' stats (in essentially real time), and 'reportlets' which have progress speedometers and thermometers.

After re-installing the Dashboard Player today, I received an error message saying that the MSVCR80.dll was missing. (Note that I'm using the Office 2007 beta and that may be why.) A web search taught me that this is a piece of the Microsoft .NET framework, and that apparently lots of programs have problems finding this dll. I'm not sure if it was an old one that MS no longer uses but 3rd parties have come to rely on, or why this is common. In any case, I also found a website where you can download the MSVCR80.dll. Then just copy it to "Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/OFFICE12" folder and all is well.