I am building TFS dashboard using PowerBI where I want to capture multiple things like sprint planning, velocity... etc. I was able to get all the data from warehouse database but only data which was I was not able to find is capacity planning.
Can anyone tell me from where we can fetch capacity planning..?
Thanks in advance.
It's not able to do this directly between TFS/Azure DevOps Server and PowerBI.
You could take a look at similar question below:
Is it possible to connect Azure sprint capacity data into
PowerBI?
Retrieve user capacity for an iteration with ODATA
Instead, you may have to use Rest API Capacities - Get to get a team member's capacity.
Related
Does the API enable the exporting of activity and task hours estimates (or other custom report data)?
I'm interested in building some custom reporting using exported data, and want to determine if it's worth the trouble to learn how to use the API.
If so, can anyone point me to the best source for how to use an API like this? I've used Microsoft APIs in the past where you just go to a website and it returns a CSV.
Thanks!
I hope someone here can help.
I have a requirement from my client who is an ISV. They want to develop a solution whereby they want to offer their customer an ability to create any reports from the customer specific database.
What I mean is, we publish the dataset on a portal the customer can then drag and drop the tables they needed, create the joins to create the required report.
Is it possible to do this in PowerBi or SQL Server Reporting service?
Many Thanks
Service Content Pack
It is possible in Power BI by developing an online service content pack. This allows online services to give their customers insight into their own data via the PowerBI.com cloud service. The ISV pre-builds the data model (and some initial charts); the end user doesn't have to worry about joins at all. They can drag & drop the fields that the ISV makes available.
There are some base requirements (it has to be a SaaS application that has an API accessible via the public internet).
More information: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-developer-content-pack-overview/
Embedding
If the ISV is building their own portal, they can embed SSRS reports on their own website (and use parameters that pass the customer ID from the website directly to each report). This looks like a good place to start: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/application-integration/integrating-reporting-services-into-applications. One downside to this solution is that SSRS doesn't allow the end-user to change the reports themselves (no dragging or dropping fields).
You can also embed Power BI reports onto an externally facing website. More information here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-embedded/
There may be other solutions, such as tools that allow external access directly into SSAS, but I've limited the scope of my response to the two tools you've asked about (SSRS and Power BI).
I recently discovered Power BI as part of our Office 365 subscription so am very new to it.
We have a MySQL database with about 5 million rows in AWS. I want to add this as a data source to our Office 365/Power BI service.
How to do this?
I see there is no content pack service that allows me to do this.
According to this SO question and answer, there is no direct way to do this: How to connect POWER BI web with AW mysql database?.
I also looked at using a Power BI Gateway to achieve this. There are two types: Personal and On-Premises. We don't have any Windows Servers, so this leaves the Personal option: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-personal-gateway/
For Personal, the documentation at that link says "A personal gateway is not required in order to refresh datasets that get data only from an online data source" which is a little confusing given that this seems to be the only option for connecting to my online data source (maybe this document meant to say "from a supported online data source"?). It seems that I install this on a local machine in our office, connect to my AWS MySQL database, query/model on my desktop, then upload my results to our Power BI Service for the rest of our company to access. I schedule refreshes using the Personal Gateway. Is this correct? I hope this does not involve the transfer of millions of rows to/from desktop and/or Power BI Service?
p.s. I also considered developing something similar to the content packs that are provided for GitHub, Google Analytics, MailChimp, etc but there doesn't seem to be a "private" way to do these. Doing it this way seems to involve becoming a Certified Azure Developer (even though there is no Azure in this problem) and then making the solution public (which I obviously don't want to do): https://azure.microsoft.com/marketplace/programs/certified/apply/. If there is a way to develop my own "private" solution without the certification and publication process, I would consider that.
I would tackle this through Power BI Desktop. You will need a windows machine to install this on, and it will need the MySQL Connectors installed, ref:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32746679/1787137
Then I would develop and publish your queries, datasets and reports using PBI Desktop.
Finally I would configure PBI Personal Gateway to schedule refresh of the published report datasets.
5m rows is not trivial but quite possible in this scenario. You will likely only need a selection of your tables and columns, that have analytical value.
I am currently looking into Setting up Data Driven Subscriptions on our 2014 Server, however when trying to follow the instructions in the tutorials I can find I'm running into a roadblock, which is as simple as I just don't see the option for Data Driven Subscriptions anywhere! Is there a service or some setting that I am missing ? I have complete Admin access to the server & the Reporting Server site.
Thanks
Data Driven subscriptions are only available on Enterprise and Business Intelligence editions of SQL Server 2014:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993(v=sql.120).aspx#Reporting
I have often run into this limitation, and it has kept me from developing data-drvien subscriptions many times. The cost difference to upgrade to SQL Enterprise usually kills the value of this feature. One easy work around is to have the subscription run regularly, but change the data in the report depending on the recipient.
I am trying to implement a system which sends out email alerts based on certain changes in the database - for instance, if the revenue for a certain store drops below 50% of the 30-day average, we'd like to automatically generate an alert to the relevant decision makers, so they can check what's going on. (Fictional example, we don't have stores)
Does JasperReportc Server 4.5 (or any other related tool) provide any functionality which could accomplish this? If not, is there any open-source solution which would be suitable? Ideally we'd like a user-friendly frontend to define the criteria and design the alert mails.
Or can it be possible at database level?
Thanks.
I have to mention that Jasper is just a reporting tool. It does not send any email alerts or anything. All it can do is generate dynamic reports at different times.
Perhaps your application itself can use SMTP or IMAP to send emails. You can code the necessary conditions in your application itself.
You can use Jasper in your application when you want fast-building dynamic reporting solutions. It takes less time on Jasper to create a report than building it in the application. Also, Jasper can have your report exported in PDF or Excel format also without having to jack around with API files. Jasper also offers charts and other graphical reporting structures.