Hi James,

Is it possible to deploy reports using the Eclipse client alone (with or
without admin right to the repository)?

Thank you,

Thanh

James Moody wrote:
Check out the API in IReportRestService. This is the API that is
called from the web UI (as well as from the rich client).
getRenderedReport, if supplied all of the parameter values, will
return you a hunk of HTML that is the rendered report (keep in mind
though that the HTML references images which are on the server). Other
API on the REST service can retrieve the valid values for parameters,
etc.

We're currently working on more API that will let you download a
complete report, either in HTML (with PNGs), PDF or perhaps other
formats that BIRT supports. Stay tuned.

james

Thanh Nguyen wrote:
Hi James,

Thanks for the lead. I was trying to follow the tutorial on extending
the data warehouse package. It seem to be a very good way to extract
data for research. I am wondering if there is anyway to get the
reports via the client API instead of going through the web interface?

Thank you,

Thanh

James Moody wrote:
Hi Thanh,

The data warehouse is extensible, yes. We have recently written a
draft article in the wiki that describes how to extend the data
warehouse to add your own fact and dimension tables, and populate it
with data.

See here for details:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/DataWarehouseExtending

There is other reporting information available on the main Reports
page in the wiki:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ReportsMain

If you have any questions just post them here, or if you have
enhancement requests or bugs to report, feel free to open work items
for us.

james

Thanh Nguyen wrote:
We have to collect data from Jazz for analysis as well. So far
we've been writing Eclipse plug-ins that uses different queries in
the API to get the data and serialize them.

I didn't know the datawarehouse is providing these queries. I will
look into it.

Here is a question: If I want create a snapshot all workitem in a
project area, can I extend the datawarehouse component to do that
without explicitly writing queries to the repository?

Thank you,

Thanh



James Moody wrote:
Rafik Jaouani wrote:
Yes, this should be part of the jazz downloads.

Check the com.ibm.team.datawarehouse projects in server jar,
these expose extension points for registring snapshot providers
who are responsile in a declarative for defining the schema of
the data warehouse and how it should be kept up to date.

The com.ibm.team.reports projects expose the jazz data warehouse
to Birt and the ui.

Rafik Jaouani


Just as a followup to Rafik's comments...

We will shortly be starting a couple of articles. The first will
be on how to write your own BIRT report that takes advantage of
the data in the data warehouse. The second will be on how to
extend the data warehouse to add whatever kind of data you like,
and schedule snapshot jobs to update that data periodically. Stay
tuned for more information about this.

james