For example, instead of writing the following:
element * .../my_branch_01/LATEST
element * .../base_branch/LATEST -mkbranch my_branch_01
I would want to write something like this:
MY_BRANCH=my_branch_01
element * .../%MY_BRANCH%/LATEST
element * .../base_branch/LATEST -mkbranch %MY_BRANCH%
Is this even possible? What is the correct syntax?
The only native way to do this in ClearCase is to use attribute within a config-spec.
According to the version selector rules, you can make a "selection by query" rule, based for instance on an attribute:
element * ...{MY_ATTRIBUTE_NAME=="aValue"}
would select the LATEST version on any branch with an attribute 'MY_ATTRIBUTE_NAME' with 'aValue' in it.
That mean you need to change the attribute value on the old branch, put it on the new branch, 'cleartool setcs' your view again, and you should have a new content based on a new version selection.
Not very straight forward, but it could work, except for the mkbranch part (which needs a fixed name).
Regarding GeekCyclist's answer, a few comments:
The solution to include a common config spec can work for Base ClearCase solution, but:
need to be in a share available by all concerned developer
the setcs is indeed necessary to Ccuses the view_server to flush its caches and reevaluate the current config spec, which is stored in file config_spec in the view storage directory. This includes:
Evaluating time rules with nonabsolute specifications (for example, now, Tuesday)
Reevaluating –config rules, possibly selecting different derived objects than previously
Re-reading files named in include rules
all the other developers need to be notified when the common included config spec file changes (there is no native notification included in ClearCase)
If you need to have one "environment" (i.e. one "view" or workspace) with a variable content (depending on a different branch), you need to define a symbolic link (or a windows subst) pointing to different views (each with their own config spec)
That way, you only have to change the link (or the path subst'ed) in order to change the config spec associated with a given fixed path.
It's been a while since I worked in ClearCase (we switched to Subversion), but if I recall correctly there is no way to do this native to ClearCase.
You could use or write a script generator that would create your spec file and then include that in the actual spec:
element * CHECKEDOUT
include scripted_file_output
Then run
cleartool setcs -current
The problem with this approach is that I believe the include spec would need to be regenerated and the cleartool setcs run whenever you change the value of MY_BRANCH.
Related
I'm using the visual client for perforce and I want to exclude a directory from the workspace. Before streams, I would just navigate to my workspace, find the folder in the tree, and exclude it (and I've found this solution in a number of other related questions I've found). However, now that I am using a stream, it won't let me do this, i have to edit the stream mapping apparently.
So I tried to add this line to the remapped box when editing the stream:
-//NumberPlus/current/Library/... //nplus-mainline/current/Library/
However I just get an error:
Error in stream specification.
Error detected at line 24
Null directory (//) not allowed in '-//NumberPlus/current/Library/...'.
EDIT: I'm in Windows 8.1, for clarification.
If the folder you want to exclude is specific to your machine, setting P4IGNORE locally is the easiest way to exclude it from being added to the depot.
http://www.perforce.com/blog/120214/new-20121-p4ignore
You'd set P4IGNORE to some name like "p4ignore.txt", create a file with that name, and add "Libraries" to it -- subsequent "p4 add" commands will skip over paths found in the P4IGNORE file, so those files will never get added to the depot.
If this is something that's going to be common to all workspaces of this stream (e.g. it's a build artifact that everyone is going to generate and nobody is supposed to check in), what you want to do is add an "exclude" to the stream's Paths (this will exclude it from both branch views and client views generated by that stream). E.g.:
Paths:
share ...
exclude Libraries/...
The "exclude Libraries/..." is basically the same thing as the exclusion line you would add to the client view, except you specify it as a relative path, you don't need to specify both sides of the mapping, and the "-" is implied by the "exclude" type. The "remap" type is if you want to keep those files but in a different depot location, which doesn't sound applicable here.
More information on defining stream views:
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4v/streams_views.html
You can't just edit the mappings for your client workspace if it is switched to a particular stream. The whole point of streams is that your workspace mapping is directly generated from the stream definition. So that's a feature.
It's not totally clear whether
you don't want the directory in the stream at all, or
it's valid to have the directory in the stream, but you don't want to sync it to your workstation, or
you want the directory sync'd to your workstation, but you want the directory to have different contents (say, from some other stream which has a different version of the library.
However, for all of these situations, I suspect the best path forward is to define a new child stream of your current stream.
You will want to define the path mappings using the "share", "exclude", "isolate", and "import" mapping types.
For example, if you just didn't want the Library/... directory at all, you'd "exclude" it from your parent.
Then that stream simply won't have that directory, and it (of course) won't be on your workstation when you sync to the stream, either.
If you wanted to have a different copy of the code in the Library/... directory, so that it became a point of intentional divergence from the parent, you'd "isolate" it from your parent to submit your own custom version, or "import" it from another stream to use that stream's Library/... directory instead.
In either case, the directory would be part of the stream, and would be sync'd to your workstation, but the contents of that directory would differ from the contents that are used in the parent stream (the exact way in which they'd differ is under your control, as you define the stream accordingly).
Documentation and some examples are here: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4v/streams_views.html
and here:
http://www.perforce.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Streams-ebook.pdf
I believe I have solved this. To be clear, I wanted the folder to be completely ignored by version control. I'm using p4connect with Unity and it keeps wanting to include unnecessary stuff in my depot.
All I had to do was add this line to my parent stream in the Paths box:
exclude current/Library/...
IS there a way to add/initate a comment ( e.g. $dom->createComment ... ) such that it comments out an entire block of xml tags. Basically I want to turn-off the content between the comment.
For example, it would look like this:
<TT>
<AA>keep</AA>
<!-- comment to blocking
<BB>hideme1</BB>
<CC>hideme2</CC>
-->
<DD>d's content is good</DD>
</TT>
Actually this question is a pre-cursor to my attempt to figure-out a method to be able to markup/label/identify the changes to an xml files in support of new client software functionality, but be able to have the ability to remove / back-out these xml changes in the rare event the client needs to fall back to the previous software version (and no I can't just simply point back to the original xml file because the client is allowed to make minor modifications to existing node text values). This is all going to be controlled via a perl script and LibXML's core modules (I can't use modules the client doesn't have).
So basically I've identified three possible types of xml changes as a result of new client sw functionality:
1.) ADD new element node(s) (typically to support new sw functionality)
2.) DELETE element node(s), or blocks of (would be rare, but never-the-less a possibility)
3.) CHANGE node text values (rare, but the new sw may require a new value)
For all three types, the client needs the ability to back out the changes. One thing I was thinking to use is ATTRIBUTES since the existing xml files don't use them. For example, for an ADD change type, I could include an atribute like 'ADD="sw version 4.1"' . This way if it needs to be removed, I could just simply have the perl script find those attribute strings and delete them (using LibXML methods). Same thing with CHANGE change type - I could use an attribute like CHG="newvalue_oldvalue", then again use straight perl (or LibXML) to switch back the value based on the contents of the attribute. The DELETE change type is giving me a problem though (as welll as the others lol!). I want to be able to "keep" the deleted lines in the xml file soley for the purposes if the sw falls back a version (at some late point the perl script could eventually cleanup/delete them).
I know this is a lot, I'm new to LibXML (but not to perl). I was just wonder if any of you have any thoughts as to how to go about it or seen anything resembling this kind of request ... I'd be grateful for any kind of advice! Thank you...
I have a large amount of code that I'm running doxygen against. To improve performance I'm trying to break it into modules and merge the result into one set of docs. I thought tag files would do the trick, but either I have it configured wrong or I'm misunderstanding how it works.
The directories are laid out:
root +
|-src+
| |-a
|
|-doc+
|-a.dox
|-main.dox
|-main.md
|-output+
|-a+
| |-html
|-main+
|-html
In addition to 'a' there are other peer directories but am starting with one.
a.dox generates output and a tag file into root/doc/output
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=output/a
GENERATE_TAGFILE = output/a/a.tag
INPUT=../src/a
main.dox just inputs the markdown file that has a mainpage tag and refers to the other projects tag file.
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=output/main
INPUT = main.md
TAGFILES=output/a/a.tag=output/a/html
Should this merge or link all the docs under main where I can browse 'a' globals, modules, pages, etc? Or does this only generate links to 'a' if I explicitly cross-reference a documented entity in 'a' from inside of 'main'?
If this should work, any thoughts on where my syntax is incorrect? I've tried various ways to define TAGFILES, is the output directory relative to the main.dox file? To the a.tag file? Or to the a/html directory?
If I'm off base an TAGFILES don't work this way, is there another way to merge sets of doxygen directories into one?
Thanks.
I suggest you read this topic on how I recommend to use tag files and the conditions that should apply: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8247993/784672
To answer your first question: doxygen will in general not merge the various index files together (then no performance would be gained). Although for a part you can still get external members in the index by setting ALLEXTERNALS to YES.
Doxygen will (auto)link symbols from other sources imported via a tag file. So in general you should divide your code into more or less self-contained modules/components/libraries, and if one such module depends on another, then import its tag file so that doxygen can link to the other documentation set. If you run doxygen twice (once for the tag file and once for the documentation) you can also resolve cyclic dependencies if you have them.
In my case I made a custom index page with links to all modules, and made a custom entry in the menu of each generated page that linked back to this index (see http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/customize.html#layout) how to add a user defined entry to the navigation menu/tree.
I searched for a couple of days to fix this bug with nothing new.
I had a report which include multi-level subreports everything works fine on iReport 3.7.5. I used subreport.jasper as subreport expression in the first level & also subreportA.jasper, subreportB.jasper in the second level & place all (the main report & subreports) in the same path.
The problem raised when I try to deploy it on my JasperServer.
When I try to upload the first main report the iReport wizard offerd me to attach the first subreport.jrxml in resource folder and access it with repo:subreport.jrxml or repo:subreport.jasper.
Then I manually upload the second level subreports and do the same thing change the subreport expression to repo:subreportA.jasper and repo:subreportB.jasper.
I got compilation error : Unable to locate the subreport with expression: ""repo:subreport.jasper"". java.lang.Exception: repo:subreport.jrxml not found.
I try dozen solution and nothing works.
using : SUBREPORT_DIR # the beginning,
using full path : repo:/Circuit_Reports/Connectivity/Connectivity_files/,
switch between .jasper & .jrxml.
using jasperserver_api_engine_impl_0_fix.jar in lib folder as a fixation to this bug,
I also searched the database record to be sure that they are in the same folder and have the same parent folder.
Smalltalk before Longtalk ;)
(Of course I don't want to encourage you to read everything of this long detailed post! The bold markers may already be enough to solve your problems but I found it worth documenting this tricky stuff in some more detail!)
Since I invested another couple of hours on this (after I resolved it some weeks ago, had a change now, but forgot to document it properly, forgot how I did it and could not retrieve this info again in any form - when uploading and configuring to/in JasperServer) ... here is some aggregated functionality mentioned on various sites regarding subreport referencing, how it works and what one can try ...
(I'll update mine or other findings in here if there hopefully will be some)
Short cut details / best practices?!4
Till maybe Jasper functionality provides a similar "wrapping" solution itself ...
To workaround all the problems related to running the *.jrxml, *.jasper files either locally in Preview mode or remotely on a JasperServer I am now using the following approach which allows to work with only a single *.jrxml file, that will work locally and remotely without modifications, in a multi-developer environment, supporting independent refactoring of dir structures (paths, names) per environment (= as it should ;-) ):
using some jasper-utils-*.jar
put it in your project (Java) class path (Project->Properties->Java Build Path->Libraries->Add)
put it in your ../jasperserver/WEB-INF/lib/ folder
referencing some custom Jasper Java Scriptlet jr.utl.EnvScriptlet that does the ugly subreport path/reference magic in your master reports
define the REPORT_SCRIPTLET by adding an attribute to your master report: report properties -> Report -> Data Set -> Scriptlet Class: jr.utl.EnvScriptlet
using some custom properties file jr.utl.properties or otherwise supplied system properties (any other way to set the Java system properties would be fine as well and work - where already set up properties will override loaded file properties) to configure the different environments including your
current environment information via jr.utl.env property (prod, myOsUsrName, test, demo, staging, local, ...)
which determines how the subreport references must be generated / look like
server subreport parent directory property references
take e.g. these property file contents and put one per environment here:
on your servers: ../jasperserver/WEB-INF/classes/jr.utl.properties
jr.utl.env=prod
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.parentdir=repo:/x/y/z/
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep2.parentdir=repo:/x/y/z/
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep3.parentdir=repo:/x/y/foobar/
in your local JasperSoft Studio (Eclipse) Java src/build path: e.g. ../myrepproject/src/java/jr.utl.properties
jr.utl.env=dietrian
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.parentdir=D:/reporting/src/reports/
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep2.parentdir=D:/reporting/src/reports/
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep3.parentdir=D:/reporting/src/reports.otherdir/
to achive source modification independency in our environments we parameterized those values and generate them once via some workspace-dependent/user-specific local.properties file, based on this idea:
|- build.xml (containing the ANT build magic)
|- build.properties (containing global properties)
|- local.properties (ignored in version control, e.g. .hgignore, user-specific generated from local.template.properties)
|- local.template.properties (source for ANT build task generating the local.properties above)
|- mycomp.local.proj.reporting.dir=D:/reporting
|- src/reports
|- jr.utl.properties (ignored in version control, user-specificly generated based on template below)
|- jr.utl.template.properties (source for ANT build task generating the jr.utl.properties above)
jr.utl.env=${user.name}
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.parentdir=${mycomp.local.proj.reporting.dir}/src/reports/
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep2.parentdir=${mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.parentdir}
mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep3.parentdir=${mycomp.local.proj.reporting.dir}/src/reports.otherdir/
defining your BASE_DIR master report parameters as e.g.
$P{REPORT_SCRIPTLET}.getProp("mycompany.allsubreports.parentdir") (matching some environment-dependent property in your jr.utl.properties file)
defining the master subreport expressions as e.g. jr.utl.EnvScriptlet.getSubrepPath( $P{BASE_DIR}, "subrep1.jrxml")
automatically resolving the values from properties you could also use e.g. these variants:
jr.utl.EnvScriptlet.getSubrepPathByPropKey( $P{BASE_DIR}, "mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.name")
jr.utl.EnvScriptlet.getSubrepPathByPropKeys( "mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.parentdir", "mycompany.local.jr.gui.rep.subrep1.name")
$P{REPORT_SCRIPTLET}.getSubrepPath(...) does not work here :-( (I don't know why)
do not forget to restart your server when you put all the files on the server!
(4: Of course I am still seeing some minor improvements here, but it seems much better than all the ugly solutions I found till now. Improvements I would see:
using the REPORT_SCRIPTLET or scriptlet functionality may not be the best way to go, but it will probably work in the vast majority of use cases
although both existing Jasper classes suggest this they do not seem to be able to handle the above properly:
FileResolver
RepositoryUtil
)
(5: the relevant special handling is encoded here: EnvScriptlet.java/getSubrepPath(String,String,boolean,String[]))
Intro (Background)
First thing to know is that the handling/setup in JasperStudio is quite different from the handling on Jasper Server (Repository)5 ...
suppose we have the following enviroments:
our Eclipse install dir: C:\eclipse\
our Eclipse (Report) workspace: C:\workspace\
our report project under: C:\workspace\report-project\
our reports under: C:\workspace\report-project\src/reports
a master report C:\workspace\report-project\src/reports/masterrep.jrxml
some subreport C:\workspace\report-project\src/reports/subrep1.jrxml
another subreport C:\workspace\report-project\src/reports/somesubdir/subrep2.jrxml
the BASE_DIR (explained in next section) in our workspace master report is set to C:\workspace\report-project\src/reports/
our Jasper Report Server GUI repo id-path of our master report will be: /x/y/z/
(which is not to-be-confused with the visual named-path, e.g. which could be Financial Reports/Expenses/Current Year)
In general: Jasper Studio, JasperServer
(and other "Jasper runtime environments" like custom Java Jasper package usage):
it seems a good practice to declare a report parameter "prefix" which can vary depending on your Jasper runtime environment e.g. named BASE_DIR
important here is that it seems best to assume the suffixed / may be included1 because there are cases where you may have/want to use it in a way where it should be an empty or "unslashed" path expression
e.g. $P{BASE_DIR} + "subrep1.jrxml" which should resolve to
repo:subrep1.jrxml
see e.g. here for more details (look for SUBREPORT_DIR)
(1: which I personally find a bad practice in general (not looking at Jasper Reports in this respect) when dealing with directory-like structures)
JasperStudio Designer (Eclipse Plugin)
(the official IReport successor with loads of more functionality)
(if you do not use the preview functionality this may be uninteresting to you)
unfortunately I found no practical way to fully support (normal) "team-development" with subreports (and likely other relative resources as well), meaning here the (currently to me unknown) inexistent possiblity to separate local paths and *.jrxml files :-(
e.g. if you have a version control system in place and work in different environments (different local paths to repos and/or different developers) the master report has to contain a local path to your subreport in some way)
I tried different approaches that failed:
relative path expressions in BASE_DIR do not work since the working directory is the eclipse dir, e.g. C:\eclipse
Eclipse->Window->Preferences->JasperStudio->Properties->Add e.g. my.base.dir
it is not available in the Preview mode, e.g. via new java.io.File(System.getProperty("my.base.dir")).getCanonicalPath() + "/" for our BASE_DIR expression (these props may be only used by the designer itself, but not set in preview runs)
just in case you may stumble upon (as I did): Eclipse->Window->Preferences->JasperStudio->Report Execution->Virtualizer Temporary Path is something unrelated (not useful here) dealing with the storage of the report result "caching"
of course I could write an ANT task to replace these local pattern based on a regexp filter copy on every usage/checkout, but that seems not a good way to handle this
if you solely want to work with *.jrxml files (as I do3) you have to reference some subrep1.jrxml like this: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.compileReport($P{BASE_DIR} + "subrep1.jrxml")
(3: I don't need the *.jasper files explicitely and do not see why I want to deal with them. BTW the JasperServer WebGUI only seems to support the upload of *.jrxml files)
JasperServer Web GUI
(e.g. provided by some Tomcat application server and storing its data in some postgres database)
Scenario 1: reference attached subreport resource(s)
if you do not want to reuse your report in general, it seems fine to add your supreport to your master report (so it is not visible in the GUI repo tree - see below subitem how you could reference it outside of your master anyways)
if you attach your subreport it should in general have its file name as its resource id, e.g. our subrep1.jrxml from above is uploaded with a resource id of subrep1.jrxml (thus making the handling of local design references and server references less complicated)
taking the example reports from above we have to set our BASE_DIR to repo: in the to-be-uploaded master report
thus the subreport expressions $P{BASE_DIR} + "subrep1.jrxml" and $P{BASE_DIR} + "somesubdir/subrep2.jrxml" should work on the server as well
NOT recommended!: you could still reference these reports from other reports with absolute paths like this2: repo:/x/y/z/masterrep.jrxml_files/masterrep.jrxml_
(2: which I would not recommend in this case; it's undocumented and may change; better put your subreports then into the "GUI repo path" as described below)
Scenario 2: reference repo subreport resource(s)
suppose we upload our subreports to the master repo id-path /x/y/z/ (as shown on top)
again we have to differentiate two different use cases
we do NOT want to use the subreport as a standalone report (it will always only be included in other master reports)
in this case we should upload it using Add Resource->File->JRXML and reference it
../subrep1.jrxml or ./subrep1.jrxml do not work since it seems the underlying logic cannot handle the relative path expression .. (and likely . not as well) (which would actually be nice :-( )
so what we have to do here is to supply an absolute canonical path in the BASE_DIR of our masterrep.jrxml, e.g. repo:/x/y/z/
we want to use the subreport as a standalone report as well
in this case we should upload it using Add Resource->JasperReport
this obviously creates a hidden folder repo:/x/y/z/subrep1.jrxml_files containing the report itself and other resources
that's why we not only have to adjust the BASE_DIR (as above), but also the subreport expression to, e.g. $P{BASE_DIR} + "subrep1.jrxml_files/subrep1.jrxml_" (which points to the subreport itself)
and maybe remove the net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.compileReport(...) wrapper function, because the server does this automatically for *.jrxml files
I did not fully investigate some other likely incorrectly used approaches which did not work for me to solve the mentioned problems (maybe somebody else has some outcome/corrections here):
$P{REPORT_FILE_RESOLVER}.resolveFile("subrep1.jrxml") (NullPointerException)
resulting in empty subreport sections in master report:
$P{REPORT_CONTEXT}.getRealPath("subrep1.jrxml")
$P{REPORT_CONTEXT}.getProperty("REPORT_FILE_RESOLVER").resolveFile("subrep1.jrxml")
Additional hints
Since I like to automate the report design and deployment process as much as it makes sense I wrote some ANT tasks that handle the local *.jrxml file to deployable *.jrxml file transformations regarding the BASE_DIR and the other transformations.
SQL helpful to easily investigate the resource id path structures in a jasper server postgres meta database (following something like jdbc:postgresql://myjasperhost/jasperserver connecting e.g. with the postgres user):
select
f.id as folder_id,
r.id as res_id,
case when f.hidden = true then 1 else 0 end as hidden,
f.uri||case when f.uri = '/' then '' else '/' end||coalesce(r.name,'') as res_uri,
r.resourcetype,
r.creation_date,
r.update_date,
f.uri,
r.name,
-- less important
r.version,
r.parent_folder,
r.childrenfolder,
f.parent_folder,
f.version,
f.name
-- select *
from jiresourcefolder f
left outer join jiresource r on (r.parent_folder = f.id)
where not f.uri like '/themes%'
order by f.uri||coalesce(r.name,'')
Related Questions
Questions on the Jaspersoft forum related to this one include:
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/525466/proper-way-include-subreports
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/530526/subreport-could-not-load-object-location
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/517832/subreports-ireports
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/537611/sub-report-jrxml-jasper
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/534861/unable-compile-master-report-pls-advise
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/817852/databasetimezone
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/819343/comjaspersoftjasperserverapijsexception-error-filling-report-and
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/536251/solved-subreport-not-running-jasperserver
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/536218/resolved-problem-subreport-reference-after-exporting-ireport-jasperserver#81141
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/527109/subreport-problem
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/522331/atomatically-compile-subreports
Not sure if this mechanism works in all cases but it certainly works for JasperSoft Studio 5.6.0 and Jasper Reports Server 5.6.0.
Essentially we need a simple way to detect that we are running on the server - I use the presence (or absence) of the $P{REPORT_CONTEXT} parameter which experiments show is present on the server but not present during preview.
<parameter name="OnServer" class="java.lang.Boolean" isForPrompting="false">
<parameterDescription><![CDATA[Are we running on server]]></parameterDescription>
<defaultValueExpression><![CDATA[Boolean.valueOf($P{REPORT_CONTEXT}!=null)]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
Once you have that you can then define the location of your subreport from a choice of two:
<parameter name="SubReportProducts" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
<parameterDescription><![CDATA[The products subreport]]></parameterDescription>
<defaultValueExpression><![CDATA[$P{OnServer}.booleanValue() ? "repo:OrderPicksheetProducts.jrxml" : "OrderPicksheetProducts.jasper"]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
And then include the sub report:
<subreportExpression><![CDATA[$P{SubReportProducts}]]></subreportExpression>
You can then use Preview in studio and all still works when you deploy to server.
I'm not 100% of this answer but : You have to upload your subreport as a jrxml ressource and put "repo://subreport.jrxml" to get it work.
If you read this one of those days tell me if it worked or what solutions you found.
Regards
Try removing the extension completely and use "repo:/subreportFolder/subreportName". The main report pulls the jasper file in iReport, but on the jasperserver you upload the jrxml.
I'd like to create a dynamic view that only shows the files a user created/modified for a particular label.
Right now, I am listing all of the files in the label and comparing that with the previous label.
If I have to use cleartool to find the files, that is fine with me. I'd like the process to be more automated than it currently is.
Another option too is, can I simply see the diffs for a particular user? That way, I am more likely to understand the file's history. If a developer had attempted something one way and found that didn't work, it might be helpful to see that trial and error.
config spec:
#element * REL_2010.2.2.006
element * .../pgh_rel_4.0.0_dot_rel/{created_by(pp50773)&&lbtype(REL_2010.2.2.006)}
# first stop rule
element -directory * .../pgh_rel_4.0.0_dot_rel/{lbtype(REL_2010.2.2.006)}
# second stop rule
element -directory * main/LATEST
This config spec doesn't fetch my changes - It fetches empty directories. It is also important to note that while I made the changes to the actual file, another guy is responsible for applying the label weekly. So, if it goes by whose name is on the label, that won't work.
If I remove the created_by constraint, it works fine listing all of the changes for the label, but I want only files in that label for a given user.
Walter
According to the version selector rules, you can do that, but I would recommend:
2 dynamic views (easy to setup and refresh, since their content is not downloaded on your hard drive, but accessed through the network)
one one for one label
one for the other
to not forget to add stop rules for directories (if directories are not created by your user, they won't be selected, meaning your view won't be able to select any version within it.
The config spec for one of those view would be something like:
element * .../MyBranch/{created_by(myuser)&&lbtype(MY_LABEL)}
# first stop rule
element -directory * .../MyBranch/LATEST
# second stop rule
element -directory * main/LATEST
When you have two views correctly configured, you can compare their content with a tool like WinMerge.