In this lesson, you will learn how to customize the Defect
dashboard by adding additional reports to it.
The project level Defect dashboard tracks project efficiency
as reflected by defects and changes (hence re-work), and work distribution.
This tutorial shows how to add the Request trends and SLOC per defect
reports to the Defect Dashboard. The Request trends report shows
how many enhancements and defects arrive or are closed in a time interval,
and the SLOC per defect report tracks the number of lines of code
per defect.
The dashboard definition is available in the Public
Folders > Sample Report Definitions > Dashboard Definitions > Project
Level Dashboards folder.
Create a copy
The
first step is to create a copy of the dashboard. You will be customizing
this copy in the rest of this lesson.
- In Cognos connection click the folder Public Folders > Sample
Report Definitions > Dashboard Definitions> Project
Level Dashboards > Defect Dashboards.
- To create a copy, click More… to the right
of the Defect Dashboard.
- In the Perform an action page, click Copy
.
- In the Save as a copy page, enter the name ‘Defect Dashboard_1'.
- Under Location click My folders and then OK.
- Navigate to My folders and, on the same line as the Defect
Dashboard_1, click More….
- Click Set properties
.
Select reports
- In IBM® Cognos Connection, in Public Folders > Sample
Report Definitions > Data Warehouse Reports >, select the
check boxes next to the reports:
- Request trends
- SLOC per defect
- Click Copy
on the toolbar.
- Click the New folder icon, and enter the name ‘Additional dashboard
reports'. Click My folders and click Finish.
The new folder is added under My folders.
- Browse to the ‘Additional dashboard reports' link in My
folders, to open the ‘Additional dashboard reports' page,
and on the toolbar, click Paste
.
Set properties of dashboard
The final step
is to add the reports to the Defect Dashboard_1.
- Select the Defect_1 dashboard in My Folders and click the Set
Properties icon to the right of the page. The Set Properties page
opens.
- Click the Layout and Content tab. Select
the last instance of Cognos Viewer from the Selected entries list
on the right, and click Remove.
Note: If you
cannot see the Layout and Content tab, click Source Properties
.
- Click Add. A list of portlet groups is
displayed.
- In the Available Entries box, click Dashboard.
- To move the portlet to the Selected Entries box.
click Multi-page and then the right arrow
.
- Click OK and then click OK again.
- Open the Defect Dashboard_1 link. An empty frame of the Multi-page
portlet is displayed.
- In the portlet toolbar, click Edit
.
- The portlet properties page opens.
- In the Folder section, click Select an entry.
- Browse to the ‘Additional dashboard reports' folder, select
the folder, and click OK.
- Click Defect Dashboard_1 link to view the customized
dashboard. Verify that the two added reports are displayed.
You have now customized the Defect dashboard to include additional
reports in a multi-page portlet.