Query Tile PROGlobal Data Sources
Introduction
If you are replicating or copying dashboards across team projects, copying and managing the underlying work item queries can become a short-term pain and a long-term administrative nightmare. Global Data Sources solve that problem by handling your query definitions in one central place.
Global Data Sources can help you:
- Minimize the effort of setting up, copying, and maintaining dashboards
- Minimize the long term administrative cost of handling multiple queries across multiple team projects
An example
Let’s say you want to copy a dashboard with 30 different widgets to 10 team projects. This can easily result in 10-30 queries copied to different projects, resulting in 100-300 queries.
To build the same dashboard using Global Data Sources you only define each source query once in a central place, and you can then copy widgets across boards or team projects.
Creating Global Data Sources
The easiest way to create a global data source is by importing an existing query. To create a new Global Data Source, just go to the Query Tile PRO settings and click on the Data Source tab. From here you can create a new empty query or import an existing work item query as a global data source.