Sample report required

Thanks for your help on this. Basically it was some of the analysts who wanted to be able to pull out links, probably one type at a time. ie list all work items that depend on something else. I think they wwere looking for a report in which they could choose the type of link.
I agree , diagrams are better and we use these for all of our modelling. Just doesn't help us much when the modelling turns into work items and stories.

Many thanks again.

David

By suggesting the reports above, I am pointing you to some examples that you can use to use to design your report templates.

I am not sure how your tree structure is going to handle circular dependencies. Here an example:

1 is parent of 2.
2 blocks 1.

1 <in>
2 <blocks>
1 <infinite>

Also how does your tree structure represent this case?

1 is parent of 2
1 blocks 3

may be:

1 <in>
2
1<blocks>
3

trees are good at representing one kind of relationship. I have yet to see a tree that represents multiple kinds of relationships.

For multiple kinds of relationships, graphs (diagrams) are a better representation. That is why we have UML :-)

Not really, we are specifically looking to get a list of all work items with any linked ones listed below in a tree format. eg

<Story> <123456> <THis> <In>
<Task> <123457> <Create> <Resolved> <Blocks>
<Task> <123458> <Create> <new> <dependson>

How about this?

http://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.reports.viewQuery&queryUUID=_wS6G4ImjEd6HzLSYRe2U4w&name=Work Item Closure (Live)

The report design can be found under:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/viewfile/Main/ReportsCentral?rev=3;filename=Work_Item_Closure.rptdesign

Some of those are close.

We are basically after something that shows ( for the current sprint ) all work items ( showing their type ) and below them any items that are linked to them ( showing their link type ). Totaling up the effort would be a nice to have.

Anyone know of anything ??

Are you looking for something like this:

http://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.reports.viewQuery&queryUUID=_Zie0cKL8Ed6i6JlT0obBVg&name=Work%20Progress%20%28Live%29

You can find the report design in:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ReportsCentral#Work_Progress

Hi there

I have been struggling with the pleasures of BIRT for a few days now - it has to be one of the most frustrating reporting packages in the market!!!

Can anyone send me a report that I can use as a starting point so that I can see work items in a tree structure. We use links like block/depends on and parent/child but without being able to see the structure it is almost useless.

Many thanks

David

Did you see this video on jazz.net for reporting across links?

http://jazz.net/library/video/285