richardg

Hi,

I'm trying to work out how to add some additional data to a report. I've looked through the report explorer but I can't find what I'm looking for:

The report i'm working on is going to be used for comparing 2 revisions, so it will be run on a delta between 2 revisions. I'd like to detail the description of the delta - this is shown in the main D-tools report view; when you run a delta between 2 revisions, a Description is automatically generated by D-tools, something like "Delta for <Project Name> comparing revisions 2 and 3". Would it be possible to pull that string into a Report? Or alternatively how about pulling the Revision number of each of the revisions that the delta was run on?

The next piece of data may be a little more complicated; I often run filtered reports, and would like to list the filters applied to the generated report at the top. Having had a look within the report explorer, I can see the Filter section but I'm getting rapidly out of my depth and wonder if anyone has tackled this before; any help would be very much appreciated. The aim would be to have a few lines at the top of this Revisions Comparison document saying:
"Filter on 'Zone' Applied: 'RF Distribution' "

Thanks for any help. Richard

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richardg

not much response, makes me feel like i've either asked a stupid question, or asked for the impossible. any input from anyone?

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ekalpakoff

Well, both What you are trying to do is possible to a degree but requires a lot of work on your end. The first thing is that I don't know of a way to change the scope of work on the delta report. It is something that we have asked for in the past but has not come up with a solution yet. There may be a way in Crystal reports to pull from a text file but that is above my pay grade

Your second request, i've never heard of the ability to to what you are asking however I do see the value in it. I think both of your requests should be submitted to the D_tools support guys

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richardg

hi and thanks for your response!

I will suggest this all to the D-tools team.

But I wonder if anyone has any other ideas on the first issue; it appears to me that it isn't likely to be a hard thing to do if it is at all possible. I don't understand Ekal's reference to the scope of work...

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richardg

any chance a guru could please quickly let me know whether this is a pipe dream or not? I'm hoping it would be relatively straightforward to do:

What I'm trying to achieve is to reference the Description as per the attached screenshot; this is a string generated by D-tools within the Reports Tab when a delta is produced between 2 revision files. It would be useful to know whether it is possible to reference this string or not.

Thanks

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nkarthick

Hi,

Delta Comparision description is carried on dtr:ScopeOfWork field.
You can use this field in your custom report.

Note: After using that field - if you run your custom report for any project (other than delta) then project's scopeofwork information will be displayed.

delat comparison info.jpg

Hope it helps.

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richardg

That is incredibly useful - thank you.

Do you think it would be straightforward to indicate in a report which filters are applied as per my original post?

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nkarthick

Hi,

Yes you can show the applied filters information in your custom report.

This is acheived by using the field "//dtr: DToolsReport/dtrc:ReportCriteria/dtrc:ReportFilters/dtrc:Filter"

Our team already created the "Filter Summary" report which shows filters applied information. You can download that report from here.

Filter summary report will look like this -
filter summary.jpg

What you have to do in your custom report?
Include a subreport control at the report header or footer or wherever you want and bind to the attached (filter summary) report and publish your custom report thats all.

Hope it helps.

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richardg

That is also brilliant - thank you Narayana. This will be very useful for us.
Kind regards,
Richard

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