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11 Replies Last post: Sep 26, 2008 6:07 PM by Daniel Anolik  
Daniel Anolik   8 posts since
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Apr 21, 2008 12:50 PM

Comparing baselines?

 

Please forgive the rookie question, but is there an easy way to compare baselines across an entire project? I see how to compare baslines for individual requirements, but I'm looking for a global way to determine the difference on a project between baselines.

 

 

 

 

thanks,

Dan

 

 

Stephano   126 posts since
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1. Apr 21, 2008 5:34 PM in response to: Daniel Anolik
Re: Comparing baselines?

 

If you want to compare all the items in a project, viewing different baselines, your best bet is to use a Custom Report.  Here is a link to the guide we have on how to create those .  Contour uses a tool called BIRT to do custom reporting.  It's a way to customize a query for your database, and then display that in various formats (HTML, Word, PDF, Excel, etc.).  I am guessing that you want to print this out.  Let me know if am I on the right track here. 

 

 

 

 

Stephano   126 posts since
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3. Apr 23, 2008 7:46 AM in response to: Daniel Anolik
Re: Comparing baselines?

Currently we do use custom reporting for all baseline comparison.  They allow you to enter any two baselines and compare them, or compare any baseline to the current item.  We are looking to get this feature into Contour without reporting at some point, but the custom reports are a solid solution for now.  We can talk more about the custom reports and how to integrate them if you would like.  They are a useful tool in showing what has changed throughout a project.

 

One question that has come up for me in writing these reports, what exactly are you trying to see when you look at what has changed?  The idea of watching a project grow and change is a concept we are very interested in, so it would be interesting to see exactly which types of fields matter the most.  For example, are you mostly interested in seeing status changes, or are any changes throughout the item of interest to you?

Stephano   126 posts since
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4. Aug 22, 2008 9:23 AM in response to: Daniel Anolik
Re: Comparing baselines?

Version 2.4 of Contour will include 2 baseline report parameters for comparison.  Using BIRT, you should now be able to get a comparison of two baselines directly from Contour.  Let me know if you need any help setting up this report.

Stephano   126 posts since
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6. Sep 24, 2008 10:51 AM in response to: Daniel Anolik
Re: Comparing baselines?

Thank you for that catch.  They had not been enabled to the public.  For those of you on hosted, they are now visible.

 

For those of you that host your own instance of Contour, please see below for instructions.

 

Baseline Comparison Reports

Stephano   126 posts since
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8. Sep 24, 2008 2:48 PM in response to: Daniel Anolik
Re: Comparing baselines?

"system administrator" is sometimes used to refer to "root" user in our documentation.

 

Sorry for the mixup there.

Stephano   126 posts since
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10. Sep 24, 2008 3:29 PM in response to: Daniel Anolik
Re: Comparing baselines?

There should be a user called "root" with the password "password" (unless you've changed it).  That is the user responsible for loading reports into the system.

 

Let me know if you have no idea what the password is and I can reset it for you.

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