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  • Bryan Hinton avatar

    Posted on Dec 14, 2009 (permalink)

    In our existing project we have a large number of closed bugs - those closed bugs show up on the Bug History widget and completely dominate any other category - rendering the widget useless - it would be great to have the bug history widget configurable to allow you to decide what states to show or have the query written to handle the fact that the end state will over time become larger and larger and so there needs to be a way to filter them (perhaps through filtering out ones that haven't changed for longer than 10 days).

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  • Joel Joel admin's avatar

    Posted on Dec 15, 2009 (permalink)

    Hello Bryan,

    Thanks for the feedback.  We have also noticed this characteristic of the bug history widget when using the dashboard on long running projects and I agree with your suggestions for ways around it.  Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done about it at the moment.  I have added this to our backlog and hopefully it will make it into the next release. 

    Regards,
    Joel

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  • Bryan Hinton avatar

    Posted on Dec 15, 2009 (permalink)

    I looked at the way the dashboard was written and it appears that I can change the BugDataProvider - I was able to successfully create a BugDataProvider that removes the Closed bug data, but when I try to configure the dashboard to use that new provider it seems to be ignoring that config setting - is my idea plausible?  You can see my custom BugDataProvider configured in the appsettings, but the dashboard doesn't seem to be honoring that.  It seems to continue to use the old one.

    <appSettings>
        <add key="BuildDataProviderName" value="TfsBuildDataProvider" />
        <add key="SourceControlDataProviderName" value="TfsSourceControlDataProvider" />
        <add key="TaskDataProviderName" value="TfsTaskDataProvider" />
        <add key="BugDataProviderName" value="TfsBugDataProvider" />
        <add key="TfsBuildDataProvider" value="IRC.Gear.WorkItemManager.Dashboard.TfsDataProvider.BuildDataProvider, IRC.Gear.WorkItemManager.Dashboard.TfsDataProvider" />
        <add key="TfsSourceControlDataProvider" value="IRC.Gear.WorkItemManager.Dashboard.TfsDataProvider.SourceControlDataProvider, IRC.Gear.WorkItemManager.Dashboard.TfsDataProvider" />
        <add key="TfsTaskDataProvider" value="IRC.Gear.WorkItemManager.Dashboard.TfsDataProvider.TaskDataProvider, IRC.Gear.WorkItemManager.Dashboard.TfsDataProvider" />
        <add key="TfsBugDataProvider" value="MSStack.Reporting.TFS.Telerik.StackBugDataProvider, MSStack.Reporting.TFS.Telerik" />
      </appSettings>

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  • Joel Joel admin's avatar

    Posted on Dec 16, 2009 (permalink)

    Hello Bryan,

    The dashboard has been architected using a pluggable model so that in the future we may allow people to sub in their own components and charts.  However, at the moment this is not possible, though it does appear that it is.  I apologize for the confusion.  We hope to fully implement this pluggable model in the future.

    Regards,
    Joel

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  • MJ Intermediate avatar

    Posted on Apr 30, 2010 (permalink)

    My team falls into this scenario as well.  We have a long running project, so the graph is dominated by "Closed" bugs.  It would be nice to be able to customize this.  With long running project, this widget loses meaning and value.

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