Adding Jazz Reporting Service reports to dashboards

To use the Jazz Reporting Service ready-to-use reports, add the corresponding widget from the Jazz Reporting Service catalog to your Jazz™ dashboards.

Before you begin

The following conditions must be met:

About this task

Widgets on dashboards in Rational® solution for CLM encapsulate reports from different technologies and can display reports from several sources:
  • OpenSocial gadgets that follow the OpenSocial.org standard
  • Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), which are used by Rational solution for CLM (CLM) and Rational Quality Manager (RQM)
  • Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence and Rational Insight using IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence

The ready-to-use reports that Jazz Reporting Service provides are OpenSocial gadgets. On Jazz dashboards, these gadgets are called widgets.

You can add multiple instances of any report widget to a dashboard.

Procedure

  1. On a Jazz dashboard, click Add Widget.
  2. From the Select Catalog menu, select the repository that contains the report.
  3. In the Select Category list, click a category. To browse the ready-to-use reports, click All, and browse the list of available report widgets.
  4. Optional: To see a description of the report, click its name.
  5. Click Add Widget below the report name.
  6. If the report has filters that you can select to refine its output, in the widget, select the values that you want to display in the report; then click Save.
  7. Optional: If another instance of the widget is on the dashboard, consider giving the widget a unique name so you can identify it easily.
    1. Click the Menu icon (Arrowhead pointing downward) in the widget title bar, and then click Appearance.
    2. Edit the Title field.
    3. Click OK.
  8. Close the widget chooser.
  9. If the Auto-save check box is not selected or is not displayed, click Save to save the changes to the dashboard.

What to do next

Team members who see the reports on dashboards see only data from public project areas and the project areas that they belong to. They cannot see data from project areas that they do not belong to. The Collaborative Lifecycle Management tools have written a variety of articles about restricting access to project areas. For an overview, see these pages:

Ready-to-use reports for Jazz Reporting Service specify Jazz Reporting Service in the widget. As your project progresses, you can refine the output of reports by selecting different values for the filters in the report widgets.


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