Here you will follow a basic example of creating a new metric in WebFOCUS Developer Studio. Follow along to gain a basic understanding of how you can create your own metrics. For more examples, please see the Serena Dashboard Developer’s Reference, where we have included steps to illustrate how we at Serena created many of the out of box metrics for Serena Dashboard.
To create a new metric, you need to:
If necessary, create a new synonym. See To create a new synonym (.mas plus .acx) file:. Note that Serena Dashboard includes a rich collection of synonyms that represent data from the Serena Orchestrated ALM solutions, such as Release Manager and Development Manager. You can use the tables in these synonyms to create new metrics without having to build new synonyms.
Create a new procedure (graph definition, .fex) file, see To create a new procedure (.fex file) based on the master file:.
If necessary, create a join for the metric. See To create a join.
Assign the metric definition to a new or existing metric.