PerformancePoint Services - Dashboard Designer won't launch from PerformancePoint Content library

There are a couple of ways to launch Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services. One of them is to go to a BI Center site, than to the PerformancePoint Content library and click New Item on the Items tab of the ribbon. If you then select one of the items listed, eg a PerformancePoint KPI, Dashboard Designer should launch.

Now in my case, it doesn't. I get a popup titled 'Dashboard Designer Redirect' telling me 'Loading Dashboard Designer...', but when the popup disappears after a few seconds, nothing happens. In the SharePoint logs, I can find a few errors, listed below. What intrigues me here is that the problem seems to be caused by a resource file ppsma.Client.en-US.en-US.resx that cannot be found. Note the doubleen-US.enUS in there. I do see the resource file in the listed location, but it has en-US in it's filename only once.

This is not a serious problem as I do have other options to launch Dashboard Designer, like going to the Data Connections library, then select New Document - PerformancePoint Data Source, which will launch DD. Or go to the BI Center main page and select the 'Start using PerformancePoint Services' link and start DD from there, which also works. But I am just curious whether there is something wrong with my installation, or this is a bug I should report on MS Connect.

The errors in the log:

08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     nasq Medium   Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppswebparts/designerredirect.aspx?SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)) 
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Logging Correlation Data       xmnv Medium   Name=Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppswebparts/designerredirect.aspx?SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=) 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Logging Correlation Data       xmnv Medium   Site=/ 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        b9y3 High     Failed to open the file 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Resources\ppsma.Client.en-US.en-US.resx'. 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        b9y4 High     #20015: Cannot open "": no such file or folder. 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        b9y4 High     (#2: Cannot open "": no such file or folder.) 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        b9y9 High     Failed to read resource file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Resources\ppsma.Client.en-US.en-US.resx" from feature id "(null)". 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        8e26 Medium   Failed to open the language resource keyfile ppsma.Client.en-US. 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:12.98  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     b4ly Medium   Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppswebparts/designerredirect.aspx?SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)). Execution Time=5.62445785707401 56242aff-cf77-4133-8c37-11516b2f3d90
08/27/2010 09:22:13.00  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     nasq Medium   Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)) 
08/27/2010 09:22:13.00  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Logging Correlation Data       xmnv Medium   Name=Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=) 015e916c-8dca-450f-97bd-f3499bf1dd65
08/27/2010 09:22:13.00  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     b4ly Medium   Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)). Execution Time=1.37559382547223 015e916c-8dca-450f-97bd-f3499bf1dd65
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     nasq Medium   Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)) 
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Logging Correlation Data       xmnv Medium   Name=Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=) 5225e8c6-49ea-4870-93dc-5751e0232356
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     b4ly Medium   Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)). Execution Time=1.57114940586024 5225e8c6-49ea-4870-93dc-5751e0232356
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     nasq Medium   Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)) 
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Logging Correlation Data       xmnv Medium   Name=Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=) fad2a9cd-3f7e-4d08-a692-1194b4da01c8
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x03D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     b4ly Medium   Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)). Execution Time=0.392787351465061 fad2a9cd-3f7e-4d08-a692-1194b4da01c8
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     nasq Medium   Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)) 
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Logging Correlation Data       xmnv Medium   Name=Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=) e891df7b-edcb-49ce-bff2-86f9efea72fc
08/27/2010 09:22:13.28  w3wp.exe (0x01AC)                        0x13D4 SharePoint Foundation         Monitoring                     b4ly Medium   Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://sp2010-wfe1:80/_layouts/ppsma/1033/designer.application?Operation=OpenWebsite&SiteCollection=http://sp2010-wfe1/&SiteLocation=)). Execution Time=1.99718120599126 e891df7b-edcb-49ce-bff2-86f9efea72fc