Cross-repository dashboards

Dashboards can display viewlets and information from multiple repositories.

You can add viewlets to a dashboard from a remote repository on any Jazz™ server that has been associated with the dashboard's host server. These associated servers are designated as "friendly" servers. The associated friendly server must be based on Jazz Foundation version 1.0.0.1 or greater. If the other server is based on an older version of Jazz Team Server, the dashboard displays a message stating that the server is not compatible and that you should consider upgrading.

You can add viewlets from multiple friendly servers to your dashboard, but you can only see the viewlet list for one server at a time. If there are one or more friendly servers configured, you can select a friendly server in the viewlet chooser. If you are authenticated to the server, viewlets from the selected server are displayed in the viewlet chooser. If you are not authenticated, you are prompted to log in to the server.
Restriction: If a remote repository contains viewlets from products that do not support cross-repository functionality for viewlets, these viewlets are not displayed in the viewlet chooser.

If there are no friends configured for the Jazz server on which the dashboard is hosted, the repository on the current server is used as the only source for viewlets and no drop-down server menu is displayed in the viewlet chooser.

Note: Because they must be accessed on a remote server, viewlets that are added from repositories on friendly servers might display or refresh at a slower rate than viewlets that are added from the repository on the current server.

Viewlets that are added from friendly servers can be configured, but they can only access information, such as queries and builds, on the remote server from which they were added. They cannot be configured to access information on the current server or on a different friendly server.

When accessing a dashboard that contains one or more viewlets from a repository on a friendly Jazz server, you must be logged in to the friendly server in order to see the content of the viewlet(s). If you are not logged in, each viewlet from the remote repository displays a Log In link, which you can use to log in to that server. Once you are logged in, the contents of all viewlets in that remote repository are refreshed and displayed.


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