I'm doing a POC on getting Helicopter view on our SonarQube instance. I'm using latest SonarQube (5.1), sonar-runner (2.4), Gradle 2.3 (build system) on a RHEL 6.6 (Santiago) machine.
Helicopter view:
Plugin in SonarQube that I'm trying is: http://www.sonarsource.com/products/plugins/governance/portfolio-management/
The end result I want on my SonarQube instance is, to look like this: http://nemo.sonarqube.org/ and if you click on one of the VIEW(which you can create using Views Portfolio plugin), then it should give you a COMBINED metrics/info for a given view (which can be created by a user for a given Project/Product team, projects owned by a XYZ manager, department, etc or for all applications / service projects in a given organization, office, domain etc. Whatever projects you select (manually/using regular expression/etc way) in a VIEW, will be shown as one component (thus showing a user combined metrics).
Few links that I'm trying: http://www.sonarqube.org/everythings-a-component/, http://www.sonarsource.com/products/plugins/governance/portfolio-management/installation-and-usage/ and http://www.sonarqube.org/measures-at-your-service/
I'm able to get the above metrics except the COMBINED all projects info (that I'm getting for some widgets for ex: for Unit/IT tests/coverage, Lines of Code, Filter motion chart, Components chart, Technical Debt, Complexity, Tangle index, Duplications, etc etc) is NOT showing up for other widgets (for ex: SCM Top 10 authors, SCM commits per month for a given period, SCM Top 10 author's activity etc).
Please NOTE: For the above widgets which are not showing valid data for all the component projects which are part of the VIEW/sub-view, I can see the widgets in the project itself HAVE valid populated data. It's only not showing in the VIEW dashboard where it should show the combined data (for SCM* widgets).
I'm getting the following image for SCM* widgets in the VIEW that right now contains only 2 projects (one application and one is a service project).
As I mentioned above, I'm successfully able to see valid info related to these SCM* widgets when I go to the application and service project's individual project dashboard page in SonarQube.
Not sure why VIEWS Portfolio plugin is not able to combine SCM* widgets info to show combined info when the widgets are enabled/included in the VIEW's dashboard (which uses the project's dashboard settings/widgets as well as per SonarQube Views plugin installation/configuration documentation).
Has anybody successfully used SCM widgets that are available in SonarQube in a VIEW (created by using Views Portfolio plugin)? Thanks.