Running and viewing reports for quality management

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You can run reports to display data for specific parameters that retrieve the status of your testing projects.

Before you begin

Important: After an administrator enables configuration management, project data is sent only to Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE) data sources. Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) reports and historical data reports that use an Engineering Lifecycle Management or an external data warehouse as a data source will not work and are not shown on the Reports menu.
You can report on configuration-enabled projects in these ways:
  • Report Builder: Choose an LQE-based data source, create reports, and export them to spreadsheets, IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing, Microsoft Word, PDF documents, and HTML files. You can export graphs to image files or documents. For details, see Authoring reports with Report Builder.
  • Template-based reporting in ELM applications: Generate simple, document-style reports.
  • Engineering Publishing: Create document-style reports that include a cover page, table of contents, and copyright statement. For details, see Authoring document-style reports.

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To determine what report to run, see how you can use reports to get status and the report descriptions . The following tasks are also covered in this topic:

Procedure

  1. Click Reports > Browse > Shared Reports to view all shared reports, or Reports > Browse > My Reports to view all of your private reports.
  2. Select the type of report.
  3. To open the report, click the report name.
    Note: Use Previous and Next at the top of the page to scroll through the list of reports.
  4. Select the parameters to include in the report.
    Note: To display report parameters correctly when using Internet Explorer 8, you must enable the Mixed Content property. From the Internet Explorer 8 menu, click Tools > Internet Options > Security. Ensure that Internet is selected for the zone. Click Custom level, and then scroll to the Miscellaneous section. In Display mixed content, select Enable.
  5. Click Run to display the report.

    Some reports are interactive and allow you to drill down into the information that is presented in the report. For example, in a report that shows work items by owner, you can click an owner's bar in the graph to display the list of work items. To see which reports allow you to drill down, see Quality management predefined reports.

Results

Tip: If a report containing a chart displays many records and is too crowded to read easily, you can use Report Studio to change the height of the chart.

Editing report names, descriptions, or folders

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Procedure

  1. Click Reports > Browse > Shared Reports to view all shared reports, or Reports > Browse > My Reports to view all of your private reports.
  2. Select the type of report.
  3. In the Actions column for the report, click the Edit Report icon (Edit Report icon ).
  4. Edit the Name, Description, and Folder fields, and then click Save.

Saving report parameters

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If you run a report repeatedly, you can save the parameters for quick reuse.

Procedure

To save report parameters:

  1. Click Reports > Browse > Shared Reports to view all shared reports, or Reports > Browse > My Reports to view all of your private reports.
  2. To open a report, click the report name.
  3. Select the parameters to include.
  4. Save the report, using one of the following options:
    • To save a copy of the report with the selected parameters, click Save As.
      1. Edit the Name and Description fields.
      2. In the Theme field, select the location to save the report.
      3. Click OK.
    • To save the selected parameters to the original report, click Save.
  5. To see the new report, return to the Reports page, and click the Refresh icon (Refresh icon). The report is listed in the folder that you selected to save it to.

Moving or copying reports or report folders

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You can move a report into a different folder, or you can create copies of the reports, enabling you to have multiple copies of the same report with different parameters.

Procedure

  1. Open the list of reports.
  2. In the Actions column for the report or folder, click the Move/Copy icon (Move/Copy icon) for a report or folder.
  3. Select the folder to move or copy the report or folder to.
  4. Click Move to move the report or folder or Copy to copy the report or folder.
  5. Click OK.
  6. The report or folder is listed in the folder that you selected to move or copy it to.

Adding report folders

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You can move a report into a different folder, or you can create copies of the reports, enabling you to have multiple copies of the same report with different parameters.

Procedure

  1. Open the list of reports.
  2. Click the Create Folder icon (Create Folder icon).
  3. Enter a name and description for the report folder.
  4. Select a project or team area for the folder.
  5. Specify if the folder is shared.
  6. Click Save.
  7. The folder appears in the list of report folders..

Exporting report results

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You can export report results to external applications.

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Note: Some information may be missing from the exported file if the format in which you choose to export the results does not support that type of information. For example, graphics may not display in exported Excel files.

Procedure

  1. After you run a report, click the Export icon (Export icon).
  2. In the Format field of the dialog box, select the application type. You can choose from PDF, Postscript, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  3. Click Submit.
  4. Choose to open the report or save it to another location, and then click OK.

Printing a report

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You can print the report results.

Procedure

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. View the report that you want to print.
  3. Click the View report in printable format button in the page menu.
    The report opens in a printable format in a new browser tab.
  4. Use your browsers standard Print function to print the report.

Deleting reports

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You can delete quality management reports in the My Reports view or the Shared Reports view.

Procedure

  1. Open the list of reports.
  2. In the Actions column for the report, click the Delete Report icon (Delete Report icon).
  3. Click OK when prompted to delete the report.

Deleting reports in the Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client

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You can delete quality management reports using the Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client.

Before you begin

You must have the Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client installed.

Procedure

  1. Start the Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client.
  2. In the Team Artifacts view, connect to the Engineering Test Management server and open a project area by adding a repository connection, for example https://hostname.example.com:9443/qm.
  3. In the Team Artifacts view, expand the project.
  4. Delete the report.