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In the last post of this series we completed our report so that it contains all the graphical annotations we wanted. It is now time to publish it to the server and make it available to our users . Publishing the Report to the Server Once we have a report running on the local machine, publishing it is the easy part! 1. Open the report that we worked on throughout the previous parts of the series 2. From the main ribbon button, choose the Save As menu option. The...
Welcome back! In the last part of this series we discussed the actual query needed to extract the data from the TFS relational data warehouse. In this post, we’ll see how to use this query in order to create an actual report . Choosing a Report Authoring Tool In order to actually produce our report we need a report authoring tool. This tool should allow us to design our report in a WYSIWYG manner and specify the query for getting the data. We would normally choose...
In the last post we saw the final result of what we’re aiming for – the Bug’s Life report . In this post, we’ll start working on the report by actually extracting the data . The TFS Reporting Data Sources TFS supplies us with two different data sources for reporting needs: The data warehouse – A relational data store that is designed using a snowflake schema and is named Tfs_Warehouse. By default, this database is updated within 30 minutes of an anything ‘interesting’ happening in TFS. We query this...
In this series of blog posts, I will show how to write a simple report that makes use of the integrated business intelligence (BI) capabilities that are available in TFS 2010. If you’re unfamiliar with how to use this great feature, this series is for you! This first post will describe the final “product'” we’d like to construct. What We’re Aiming For Our end result for this series is the aptly-named Bug’s Life report : For each specific bug ID, the report shows us the various states that the...