Adding Report Builder reports to dashboards
You can add public reports to a dashboard. You can add the reports that your team creates, or the ready-made reports included with Report Builder.
Before you begin
- The server that hosts the Jazz dashboard that you are adding reports to must have a friend relationship with the server that runs Report Builder.
- To use the ready-made reports from Report Builder, a user
with
JazzAdmins
orJazzProjectAdmins
privilege or a report manager must activate them.Tip: When the reports are activated, they are imported into the Report Builder catalog and are public (the Privacy and sharing parameter is set to Public (publish to catalog and visible to everyone). If you do not see a report you expect in the list, confirm the catalog name with the Report Builder administrator or report manager who activated them. - You must have permission to edit the dashboard (personal, project, or team) that you are adding the report widgets to.
About this task
Widgets on dashboards in IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management
encapsulate reports from different technologies and can display reports from several sources:
- OpenSocial gadgets that follow the OpenSocial.org standard
- BIRT reports (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools), which are used by Engineering Lifecycle Management
The ready-made reports that Report Builder provides are OpenSocial gadgets. On Jazz dashboards, these gadgets are called widgets.
You can add multiple instances of any report widget to a dashboard. For example, you might add instances of the Blocking Work Items widget to easily view this information for each your projects.
Note: If an administrator activates the ready-made reports again or upgrades the service, your
copies of those widgets are updated automatically the next time you reload your dashboard or refresh
the widget. The contents of your report in the widget might change, but your widget preferences such
as widget title and selected filter values do not.
Procedure
What to do next
As your project progresses, you can refine the output of reports by selecting different values for the filters in the report widgets.
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 cannot access.
Jazz.net has several articles
about restricting access to project areas. For an overview, see these pages: