building a complex birt report

IBM Software Group

Building a Complex UML BIRT Report

Steven Hovater Oct 3, 2008

svhovater@us.ibm.com

IBM Software Group | Rational software

Starting Point Given this exemplar:

Destination

We want to produce:

Establish mapping Some mappings are

obvious

Some are not

How the pieces fit together:

Capability relates to Operational Capability Realization Capability Operational Capability (Association)

Operational Capability Realization relates to Operational Capability Realized Operational Capability (Realization)

Operational Activities relate to Operational Capability containment

System relates to System Operational Capability Capability Operational Capability (Association)

System Operational Capability relates to System Capability Realized Operational Capability (Realization)

Operational Activities relate to System Capabilities Activity Realization (Association)

System Functions relate to System Capability Containment

Problem statement

Find the capabilities that relate to systems by determining which operational capabilities map to system operational capabilities via the operational activities that are realized by the system functions.

In the DoDAF domain, it’s the mapping of the operational to the system views.

First Query

Create table that relates Capabilities (that are Operational Nodes) to Operational Capabilities

BIRT – first query details

Establish the data source Include the model (s)

Include the necessary profile(s) (in this example, UPIA)

Create a data set Row

Extract all the Capability Operational Capability associations that relate Capabilities (that are Operational Nodes) to Operational Capabilities

Columns:

Name of the Capability/OpNode

URI of the Capability/OpNode

Name of the Operational Capability

URI of the Operational Capability

Establish the Data Source

Create the first data set row mapping

Specify the columns

Discussion point: The sample model uses the Capability stereotype for both Operational Nodes and Systems. In this query, we only want the Capabilities that are Operational Nodes.

We know that one end of the relationship is a Capability and the other is an Operational Capability just from the semantics of the CapabilityOperationalCapability definition.

Filter out the Capabilities that aren’t Operational Nodes

Validate the query

Second Query Create table that relates Operational Capabilities to Operational Capability

Realizations

BIRT – second query details

Row Extract all the Realized Operational Capability relationships

Column Name of the Operational Capability

Name of the Operational Capability Realization

URI of the Operational Capability Realization

Establish the second query row mapping

Specify the columns

Validate the query

Third Query Create table that relates Systems to Operational Capabilities via Capability

Operational Capability associations

BIRT – details

Create a data set Row

Extract all the Capability Operational Capability associations that relate Systems to Operational Capabilities

Columns:

Name of the System

URI of the System

Name of the Operational Capability

Create the row mapping

Create the column mapping

Filter out non-Systems

Validate query

BIRT – create the fourth query

Row Extract all the system functions

Columns Name of the system function

URI of the system function

Name of the system function owner

URI of the system function owner

Create the row mapping

Validate the query

BIRT – create the fifth query

Row Extract all operational activities

Column Name of the operational activity

URI of the operational activity

Name of the operational activity owner

URI of the operational activity owner

Establish the row mapping

Validate Query

BIRT – create the sixth query

Row Extract all activity realizations

Column Name of the operational activity

URI of the operational activity

Name of the system operational activity realization

URI of the system operational activity realization

Establish the row mapping

Validate Query

First joint data set Create table that relates Operational Nodes that are Capabilities to the

Operational Capability Realizations

Join based on OperationalCapabilityURI

Validate the query

Create second joint data set

Create a table that joins the OperationalActivities to the first joint data set

We want those OperationalActivities whose parent is an OperationalCapabilityRealization related to a Capability that’s an Operational Node.

Validate results

Third joint data set Create a table that links the Systems to the System

OperationalCapabilityRealizations (which are OperationalActivityRealizations)

Create the joint data set

Validate results

Create fourth joint data set Create a table that relates the System Functions to the

OperationalActivityRealizations that are linked to the System OperationalCapabilityRealizations

Create the joint data set

Validate Results

Create Fifth Joint Data Set Join the Operational Activity (Query6) with the table that links the Capability to

the Operational Activity (J2)

Validate the Query

Create final joint data set Now, join the operational to the system (join S2 and O1)

Validate the results There are many columns in the resulting data set – as a results, we’ve broken the image into two chunks.

Presentation

Now that we have the data that we need, we’ll need to present it appropriately

We’re going to need to create a data cube, and a crosstab

Create the Data Cube Associate the SV5 data set with this cube

Create the groups and summary field in the data cube

Create the crosstab

Drag/drop rows/columns and summary fields Drag/drop System

Expose group levels for System Next, expose the group levels

Drop Capability Into Column

Expose groups

And, as with the Systems, expose the groups

Now, add the measurement field

Cleaning up…

Set vertical presentation, and hide measure header

Preview Results

Voila! We have an SV5 per the problem definition!

Complete the report Edit the data cube summary field

Edit the expression Add JavaScript code that produces an “X” if the field is not blank

Add a label to the crosstab

The Completed SV5

Appendix Including parents and grandparents

Appendix

building a complex birt report

operational capability

operational nodes

operational activity

operational capabilities

operational activities

system capability containment

capability stereotype

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