I created an RTC 2.0 BIRT report that generates results sets across
multiple projects and repos leveraging an existing query for
unassigned/unresolved work items for each project. It's based upon
the work of James Moody (see Jazz.net videa -- Creating a report in
Rational Team Concert 2.0 - Work item query).

I like to be able to drill-down to the actual Work Item by clicking on
the Work Item ID in the report, however, my attempts to do so through
BIRT have failed. Any ideas/recommendations on how to generate the
fully qualified Work Item URL and associate it with the Work Item
ID?

Thank you in advance for your responses!

<a widgetid="jazz_app_ResourceLink_46" id="jazz_app_ResourceLink_46" class="jazz-app-ResourceLink" href="https://[servername]:[portnumber]/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/[workitemnumber]">[workitemnumber]: [summarytext] <img src="/jazz/web/jazz.app/internal/images/ResourceLink/rh-twistie.gif" class="arrow"></a>

In RTC 2.0, when I open a dashboard with links to work items, I can
hover over the work item and see a popup with the basic information
about the work item. Is there a way to do that to the links in a BIRT
report? The link syntax that you mention above works, but shows no
popup.

I looked at the source, and the link in the dashboard that gets the
popup looks like this:

a widgetid="jazz_app_ResourceLink_46"
id="jazz_app_ResourceLink_46"
class="jazz-app-ResourceLink"
href="https://:/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/">:
<img></a

I changed my links in the report to match, but I still don't see the
popups. Do I need to enable some javascript file from the report
page?

On 8/12/2009 2:23 PM, tmcmack wrote:
So I haven't actually done this myself, but... if you could get the
title attribute set on this a tag, it would provide tooltip help. But
the anchor is auto-generated by BIRT, and I don't immediately see any
way to set the title tag. No worries, you can also do this dynamically.
If you create a fragment of (client-side) javascript somewhere in the
report underneath this anchor (i.e. later in the document), you can set
it yourself. Hopefully this renders okay:

<code>
<script>
document.getElementById("jazz_app_ResourceLink_46").title="Some tooltip"
</script>
</code>

Although you can see the id is pretty ugly and not predictable. That's
okay, you can tell BIRT what ID to use by setting the "bookmark"
attribute on the BIRT element. It'll use the id that you specify instead
of a randomly-generated one, and then you can reference that from your
javascript.

Hope this helps, let me know how it goes.

james
RTC Reports Team Lead

Thanks, James -- that method works to add textual popups. Is there any
code I can add to show information about the work items? On dashboards
in RTC 2.0, when I hover over a work item in a list, I see a popup
that provides details about the work item. That would be very
convenient to have in my reports.

Is there some code I can add to call the javascript that shows this
popup?

Thanks!

jmoodywrote:
On 8/12/2009 2:23 PM, tmcmack wrote:
So I haven't actually done this myself, but... if you could get the

title attribute set on this a tag, it would provide tooltip help.
But
the anchor is auto-generated by BIRT, and I don't immediately see
any
way to set the title tag. No worries, you can also do this
dynamically.
If you create a fragment of (client-side) javascript somewhere in
the
report underneath this anchor (i.e. later in the document), you can
set
it yourself. Hopefully this renders okay:

code
script

document.getElementById("jazz_app_ResourceLink_46").title="Some
tooltip"
/script
/code

Although you can see the id is pretty ugly and not predictable.
That's
okay, you can tell BIRT what ID to use by setting the
"bookmark"
attribute on the BIRT element. It'll use the id that you specify
instead
of a randomly-generated one, and then you can reference that from
your
javascript.

Hope this helps, let me know how it goes.

james
RTC Reports Team Lead

<A widgetid="jazz_app_ResourceLink_0" id="jazz_app_ResourceLink_0" class="jazz-app-ResourceLink" name="feedback" href="/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/8769">8769</A>.



<code>

<script>

dojo.require("jazz.app.ResourceLink");

dojo.require("jazz.app.proxy");

dojo.require("jazz.app.auth");



titleLink = document.getElementById("jazz_app_ResourceLink_0");

new jazz.app.ResourceLink({retainLinkText: true},titleLink);



</script>

</code> 

I don't have sample code for it, but you can put whatever javascript
code you want in there. So if you write code that (for example) creates
a popup div (or whatever) and populates it with whatever information you
want, you should be able to insert this to customize the behaviour of
the report. Note this only works for HTML output (of course) and you
should hide this element for other output types (PDF, etc.), which you
can do on the Visibility tab for the element.

james
RTC Reports Team Lead

Ok, it turns out to be fairly simple to add a popup to a link. Here's
the code for anyone who may be interested. I'm still trying to work
out the authentication (because the popup shows a message about
logging in at the top of the window), but it shows all the important
information anyway.



A widgetid="jazz_app_ResourceLink_0"
id="jazz_app_ResourceLink_0"
class="jazz-app-ResourceLink" name="feedback"
href="/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/8769">8769</A>.

code
script
dojo.require("jazz.app.ResourceLink");
dojo.require("jazz.app.proxy");
dojo.require("jazz.app.auth");

titleLink =
document.getElementById("jazz_app_ResourceLink_0");
new jazz.app.ResourceLink({retainLinkText:
true},titleLink);

/script
/code




For more information on that popup, see this wiki page:
ResourceLink.

jmoodywrote:
I don't have sample code for it, but you can put whatever javascript

code you want in there. So if you write code that (for example)
creates
a popup div (or whatever) and populates it with whatever information
you
want, you should be able to insert this to customize the behaviour
of
the report. Note this only works for HTML output (of course) and you

should hide this element for other output types (PDF, etc.), which
you
can do on the Visibility tab for the element.

james
RTC Reports Team Lead