Showing HTML reports in CruiseControl dashboard

Question

I have been looking into CruiseControl configuration recently (I'm a complete CC noob) and so far I understand that various XML reports generated by your build process (eg mbunit.xml, ncover.xml, fxcop.xml) can be shown in the dashboard by adding a reference to the xml to the following part of the ccnet.config:

<publishers>
 <merge>
  <files>
   <file>logs\some-report.xml</file>
  </files>
 </merge>
</publish>

adding an xsl file to transform the xml into presentable html and adding a report build plugin to dashboard.config which references the xsl:

<xslReportBuildPlugin description="Some report"
actionName="SomeReportAction" xslFileName="xsl\some-report.xsl" />

My question is: if I have some reports (code documentation generated by JGregory's Docu and test specs generated by jpboodhoo's Bdddoc) which are pure HTML, is there any way I can show these in the dashboard in a similar way? I can't figure this out. I did think of adding an ExternalLink directly to the HTML page, but this is in a protected area which users normally cant access. Anyone any ideas?

Answer 1

Currently this is not possible in CruiseControl.NET up to version 1.4.4. However this functionality is being added as part of version 1.5.0.

We can't give you a timeframe on the release yet, but you can download and try out the latest version from http://ccnetlive.thoughtworks.com/CCNet-builds/1.5.0/.

Craig

Answer 2

Hi Craig,

can you give us an update about the 1.5.0 release status ?

Is there a page which details all about this revision ? RoadMap, release notes, status ?

Thanks for your help.

Iguane39