July 22nd, 2015 by inflectra
One of the maxims I always tell developers is that regardless of what you build, customers will never be satisfied with the reports you offer or the integration that you provide. In fact the two most underestimated tasks in software development are data feeds and reporting. So one of the nice features in SpiraTeam is the ability to do custom reporting, so that you are not limited to just the reports that ship with the system. This article is the first in a series that explains how to use these powerful custom reporting features.
The first thing you'll need to do is login to Spira as a system administrator (or user with the system admin flag enabled). Only system admins can create or modify reports because they have the potential to affect all projects in the system. Once you are in the administration section, click on the 'Edit Reports' hyperlink:
From here you can either make a copy of one of the existing Spira built-in reports or create completely new report from scratch. The decision of which choice to make will depend on whether:
Once you have done this, you will be able to click on the 'Edit' link for the report which will display a list of formats, sections as well as the header and footer of the report.
When you edit a report you will see the following different items that can be changed/edited:
There are two types of report section that you can use in your report:
A report you create can have a mixture of the two sections, for example you could start the report with the standard project name and description and follow that with a custom section that displays a table of custom data (e.g. a risk cube or other table of data).
In the next installment of this series we shall be taking one of the standard reports and using the standard section XML editor to make some changes to the XSLT template to hide some columns and add a new calculated column.
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