DMA

[mark]

Ive been asked to look at some historical reporting, however its been a long time since I touched Brio to do any development.
The business are after some custom stats, which im being told need to be created within DMA (i have created the same stats as formulas within ccpulse for temporary historical reports).
Now this is where i have a problem, I have never touched DMA before. Im going to get my hands dirty in our test environment, but I could really do with some guidance on what I am doing!
We have specced up the RAD course, just waiting to see when and where would be best (might be soon, might be in 6 months or more!).

So I have a cheeky question!
Do any of you have the DMA User Guide (from GU) or know of a decent online resource that I can spend a few hours reading through?

Cheers
Mark

[cavagnaro]

Create the metrics you need, the filters, timeRanges, this will reflect to ReportingStatServer. Now create a Layout Template (using if you want a existing one as model) but use new column names, never use the same as the ones that exists, this can create problems and make stats stop working. Then based on this Layaout Template create a Report Layout. Wait 15min and it should work.

[tony]

...If you are adding new Filters or Stat Defintions, don't forget to [b]Synchronize [/b] DMA with your local Reporting Stat Server! If you are going to do it, do it out of hours, since it zeros the stats on the StatServer Clients...

[mark]

[quote author=Tony Tillyer link=topic=1915.msg6324#msg6324 date=1163872988]
...If you are adding new Filters or Stat Defintions, don't forget to [b]Synchronize [/b] DMA with your local Reporting Stat Server! If you are going to do it, do it out of hours, since it zeros the stats on the StatServer Clients...
[/quote]

Good tip!

Does it sync both ways? or just push the new items in DMA to the rep stat server?

[cavagnaro]

I believe what he ment was to stop/start reporting statserver so new options created by DMA are taken in account. When you use DMA it writes automatically in RST options.

[tony]

[quote author=mark link=topic=1915.msg6325#msg6325 date=1163880623]
[quote author=Tony Tillyer link=topic=1915.msg6324#msg6324 date=1163872988]
...If you are adding new Filters or Stat Defintions, don't forget to [b]Synchronize [/b] DMA with your local Reporting Stat Server! If you are going to do it, do it out of hours, since it zeros the stats on the StatServer Clients...
[/quote]

Good tip!

Does it sync both ways? or just push the new items in DMA to the rep stat server?
[/quote]

Synchronizing DMA with StatServer would only update the items not already in the StatServer and no, it would not sync both ways.  As alluded to, later versions fo DMA would apply the synchronization automatically, based on options chosen.

Tony