Display Discussions - Not much to work with.

Mathias Mamsch - Tue Feb 15 11:15:59 EST 2011

Maybe something like:
 

DiscussionFilter filt = discussionFilter (obj, OpenDiscussions)
Discussion d
for d in filt do {
   display "your info"
}
dispose filt
 
filt = discussionFilter (obj, DiscussionsClosedInBaseline)
Discussion d
for d in filt do {
   display "your info"
}
dispose filt

Cannot try at the moment but the DiscussionFilter constants are:

AllDiscussions, OpenDiscussions, ClosedDiscussions, DiscussionsActiveWithinBaseline, DiscussionsOpenedInBaseline, DiscussionsClosedInBaseline, OpenedInOrBeforeBaseline, OpenedInOrAfterBaseline

Maybe this helps, regards, Mathias

Mathias Mamsch, IT-QBase GmbH, Consultant for Requirement Engineering and D00RS

ChrisAnnal - Tue Feb 15 14:03:15 EST 2011
Thanks Mathias,

I incorporated your suggestions into the existing script and came up with the following:

//Trying to write script for displaying Discussions that meet the following:
//Discussion is OPEN
//Or
//Discussion was CLOSED in this baseline.

DiscussionFilter filt = discussionFilter (obj, OpenDiscussions)
Discussion d
for d in filt do
{
Comment c
int i = 1
for d in obj do
{
display d.summary " (" d.status ")"
for c in d do
{
display i ") " c.text (c.createdByName) " " (stringOf(c.createdOn)) ":\n"
display
i++
}
}
}
dispose filt
//This seems to duplicate the above in many cases...
filt = discussionFilter (obj, DiscussionsClosedInBaseline)
for d in filt do
{
Comment c
int i = 1
for d in obj do
{
display d.summary " (" d.status ")"
for c in d do
{
display i ") " c.text (c.createdByName) " " (stringOf(c.createdOn)) ":\n"
display
i++
}
}
}
dispose filt

Unfortunately, there is a problem with how this script deals with Open Discussions, in that it repeats all the comment information a 2nd time - apparently I didn't correctly implement the DiscussionsClosedInBaseline portion? I'm attaching a Word document that shows the column displaying the results of this script versus the "built-in" column one can create by choosing the option for "Display all discussions with comment text and the user name only". This built-in option is the closest to what I wanted, but some of the referenced "*.inc" files are encrypted, such that the only lines of the executable script are:

string s = GetAllComments(obj)
displayRich s

Thanks!!

Chris Annal
SW Test Engineer / DOORS Database Administrator - Sensis Corporation, East Syracuse, New York
chrisa@sensis.com

Mathias Mamsch - Tue Feb 15 14:44:10 EST 2011
You probably dont need to do: for d in filt do { for d in obj do ... } You only need to do: for d in filt do { ... } The filter already knows about the object!

Regards, Mathias