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Purpose One of the most commonly required features in a report is a list of the daily values of some metric over a range of dates (for example, how many open bugs were in the system at the end of the day for each day in the last month). This query will retrieve these metric values for each day in the date range . Prerequisites TFS 2010 or higher @StartDate parameter – The beginning of the required date range @EndDate parameter – The end of the required date range Query SELECT dd.[Date], query...
Purpose Many times you want to filter the contents of reports based on sprints or iterations (for example, the number of re-opened bugs in each sprint in the project). In this case, you often want the default of the report filter to show the iteration path of the current sprint . This query will retrieve the current sprint’s iteration path . Prerequisites TFS 2010 or higher The Scrum process template A @ProjectGUID parameter – The GUID of the Team Project in which you’re interested Query SELECT IterationPath...
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve last blogged and it’s time to get back into the rhythm! In this series, which I’m calling TFS Reporting Recipes , I’d like to show some tricks, tips and other patterns that help me along when I’m writing reports for customers. I almost always use the relational warehouse since I feel more comfortable in SQL than in MDX, so for the recipes I assume you’re in the Tfs_Warehouse database. Feel free to sound off in the comments if you have questions/issues that you’d...
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...