How to display a RPE Report (RRDG) in RTC Widget
I have created a RPE report in 4.0.0.1 and it works fine. But I would like to show this in a Widget.
I did the deployment as for a BIRT report, but no data are shown.
Any Idea
Accepted answer
My understanding is that dashboard viewlets (widgets), specifically the Reports widget is only for BIRT reports or RRDI reports. When a RPE template is imported into RTC, then a report document is created from that report resource, you can run it from the Reports dashboard. But, you will not find the report document in the listing provided to configure the reports viewlet.
See this screenshot:
Now, I am wondering if what you want to achieve can be done with any existing widgets available under the 'Plans' category of the Widget catalog. Here is a screenshot with all 3 Plan widgets available all configured with specific settings.
The widgets from left to right are (1) Plan view widget set to display the Work Breakdown structure, (2) Plan Statistics widget set to display the Product Backlog Grouped by Owner and (3) the Plans widget showing the overall progress of more than one team for a specific iteration.
I hope this answers your question. If so, please accept the answer.
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Here is some additional background info.
In order for any report resource to show up in the report viewlet, it needs to be a micro report - that is, it must include the string "micro" in its identifier. If I create a report resource from an RPE report, and add "micro", it does show up to be selected in the report viewlet.
However, I wouldn't say that we really support RPE reports on the dashboard properly. There's a check in the viewlet code that only displays the report results if they contain an image, a table or an iframe - so if your RPE report contains only lists, for example, it wouldn't display in the viewlet. The purpose of the restriction is for the viewlet to detect an empty report result and display a nice message instead of displaying a blank report. Right now, 'blank' is defined as some HTML that does not contain tables and images.
The existing dashboards are not usable
I need something like
Team A
Member 1, 100% 1.10.13-1.12.13;80% 2.12.13 -1.12.14
Member 2, 100%
Erwin, can you enter an enhancement request? Try to sketch out what exactly you would like to see in the widget. and then post the link to the workitem here please.
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I think that the procedure is described on Setting up document-style reports in CLM from Rational Publishing Engine templates
a solution was sketched up for RRDI-originated reports here: https://jazz.net/forum/questions/103608/how-to-make-rrdi-reports-work-like-rtc-widgets. Haven't tested myself but the trick may work for a resource including "micro" identifier also helps for RPE reports.
(Updated Aug 26th) Please be aware that this use case may not be recommended nor supported (as suggested by Rosa).
Regards,
Stéphane