Azure Devops Progress Report on Dashboards - testing

As I would like to see my team information in one place on the Dashboard, is there a way to see the same Progress Report (Test Plans > Progress Report) on an ADO Dashboard. There are widgets, but I can't seem to find one to give the same information. I have organized my Test Suites Sprint Wise, and the progress reports provide the information I need.

According to your description, I checked this problem further. For this requirement, it is not supported at the moment.
We recommend that you could submit a suggestion ticket to suggest the feature on:https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21.
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Where can I find the new azure data factory customer feedback page?

We used to have Customer/Developer feedback pages where people used to submit product improvement ideas and could see what was the product roadmap in terms of enhancements being built.
However with the revamp of the system - those links are stale now.
Been trying for a while to access the new pages. Could someone please help get the page for ADF, Synapse etc. ?
(UDPDATE: 10/20/2021) Azure Feedback forum is now live:
https://feedback.azure.com/d365community
Azure services is no longer uses UserVoice to collect feature ideas and suggestions. Our new, improved system will be available later this year. Until the new system is available, use the Azure Services specific forum on Microsoft Q&A platform.
Example: A feedback provided using MS Q&A platform: IDEA: Notebook-scoped Python libraries and Search Engine for the libraries (indexing at leat PyPI and Maven Central)
Azure is working on a new Self-Serve option for customers to share and vote on product feedback. When available, you will be able to go to https://feedback.azure.com/ and share/up-vote product feature ideas.
For more details, refer to How to send ideas and suggestions to the Synapse team.

BigCommerce and Myob API Integration for products

We are looking at importing products, skus and inventory from Myob to show on bigcommerce. We have mapped the APIs required. Since we haven't worked on bigcommerce before, we need some guidance on the best way to proceed. Is it better to create this integration like an app or work directly on the core? What are the performance issues, pros and cons in choosing this? Any help is appreciated.
As a suggestion, if you're going to continue to sync product data over time, an app may be better. However if this is a single sync to move over all data from Myob to BC, working directly may be better.

Better test reporting

I'm looking for some help designing a better summary report. Right now we publish and send everything (execution% by modules, defects etc) in an excel and I was hoping if we could use that excel data to generate a live dashboard that would be accessible by a URL.
To add, the execution data comes from QTest and defects from JIRA. At this point we are even ok with filling data in excel manually and using that as a source for any reporting tool.
If a free tool is available, even more better.
Any leads, helps, feedback is appreciated.
Thanks,
MD
Sounds like you need Microsoft's Power BI. We've done a lot of reporting from JIRA using this free tool (Desktop). If you need to share it with others "real time", you'll prefer the online experience for about $10/user/month. But if you're looking to stay "free", you can simply share the Power BI file with your stakeholders.
I recommend AGAINST using the already built in JIRA APP. It seems to want to pull back all your issues. Instead, use a REST API Call like this:
https://domain/rest/api/2/search?jql=filter=22605&fields=id,key,summary,description
If you get more issues back than your Issue Search is configured for, the pagination can be a little tricky. Also multiple values in a custom field need special handling.
Or if you're on premise and know your JIRA DB, direct SQL is an efficient way to go.
We use both mechanisms... (REST and SQL). SQL let us add logic in the view of the data that JIRA itself doesn't report on easily. (Parent-Child-subchild relationships and roll up of effort, story points, etc)
The best part of the Power BI solution is you should be able to integrate the data from JIRA and your test tool. (We pull from JIRA and our time tracking system).

Pull User Profile Info From TFS

I am trying to use API to pull user profile info from Microsoft TFS for work. What they have posted, how many hours they have logged, etc. I have little to no experience coding so right now any Any help will be most appreciated!
You should use the Data Warehouse and Cube to get the reports that you are looking for. There are many ways to manage the data; Reporting Services, Excel, or custom.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647430.aspx

The Pentaho BI Platform Workflow Issue

I have been working with Pentaho for the last few days. I have been able to setup the Pentaho Report Designer to generate a sample report by follow their documentation. Then I follow this article http://www.robertomarchetto.com/www/how_to_use_pentaho_report_designer_tutorial and managed to export the report to Pentaho BI server.
All I don't understand is Pentaho workflow. What should be the process I should follow which means what's the purpose of exporting the export to Pentaho BI server? Why there is a Data Integration tool? Why there is a BI sever when I can export the report from the Designer tool?
Requirement
All I want to do is retrieve the data from the MYSQL DB. Put them into a data-mart. Then from the data-mart generate a report.(According to what I have read, creating a data mart is the efficient way).
How can I get it done?
Pentaho Data Integration can be used to make this report generation automated.
In report designer you will be passing a parameter or set of parameters to generate a single report output.
With Data integration you can generate the reports for different set of parameters. for eg: if reports are generated on daily basis, we can make it automated for the whole month, so that there is no need of generating reports daily and manually.
And using the Pentaho Business Intelligence server we can make all these operations scheduled.
To generate Data/Table(Fact tables/dimension table) in MYSQL DB From difference source like files/different DB - Data Integration tool comes in to picture .
To create Schema on top of Fact tables - Mondrian tool
To handle user/roles on top of created cubes -Meta data editor
To create simple reports on top of small tables - Report Designer
For sequential Execution (at a go) usage of DI jobs/transformation , Reports, Java script - Design Studio
thanks to user surya.thanuri # forums.pentaho.com
The Data Integration tool is mostly for ETL, it's a separate tool and you can ignore it unless you are doing complex analysis of data from multiple dissimilar data sources. You don't need to 'export' reports to the pentaho server, you can write them directly to a directory then refresh the repository from inside the Pentaho web application. Exporting them is just one workflow technique.
You're going to find that there are about a dozen ways to do any one thing with Pentaho. For instance I use the CDA datasources with my reports vice placing the sql code inside my report. Alternatively you can link up to a Data Integration server to execute the Data Integration scripts to view a result set.
Just to answer your datamart question. In general a datamart should probably be supported by either the Data Integration tool (depending on your situation I don't exactly recommend this) or database functions/replication streams (recommended).
Just to hazard a guess, it sounds like someone tossed you a project saying: We need a BI system, here's the database where the data is stored, here are the reports we're already getting. X looked at Pentaho and liked it. You should use that.
First thing you need to do is understand the shape of the data, volume, tables, interrelations. Figure out what the real questions they want to answer are. Determine whether they need real time reporting, etc..etc. Just getting the datamart together itself, if you even need one, can take quite awhile. I think you may have jumped the gun on Pentaho itself.
thanks to user flamierd # forums.pentaho.com