How can we report off of Test Run Custom Fields in e-Manager?

Question

I'm trying to create reports within Crystal Reports or via SQL Reporting Services to report on test runs and I want to include data from the test run custom fields I've created. I can not find a correlation to link the test runs and the test run custom fields in the DB. Is this even possible?
I can see the related custom field data in e-Manager for each run history. I was thinking there should be some sort of table in the DB to link the data but I can not find it.
Please help
Thanks

Answer 1

You cannot get this from the interface. We added SqlServer Management Studio Express and granted read only access to project managers. They found the view dbo.View_Tests useful in that it connected custom fields to the test cases. There are similar views for requirements and test runs.
Studio Express is found: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C243A5AE-4BD1-4E3D-94B8-5A0F62BF7796&displaylang=en#QuickInfoContainer
You'll need to get access from your DBA and set up an ODBC connection.
Here's a sample query that we've used -- probably doesn't fit your situation but it might get you thinking. Part of it was stolen from another posting to QA zone -- so I figured -- might as well share the wealth:
-- Overall input parameters:
declare @project as integer;
set @project = '20'
declare @iteration as varchar(500);
set @iteration = 'Iteration 1';
declare @team as varchar(500);
set @team = 'SFS';
-- Data on a particular iteration
declare @iteration_tests_run as decimal(10,2);
set @iteration_tests_run = ( select count(*)
                         from dbo.View_Tests A
                         where A.ProjectID = @project
                         and A.Iteration = @iteration
                         and A.Team_test <> 'NULL'
                         and A.LastResult <> 'Not Run');
declare @iteration_tests_passed as decimal(10,2);
set @iteration_tests_passed=( select count(*)
                         from dbo.View_Tests A
                         where A.ProjectID = @project
                         and A.Iteration = @iteration
                         and A.Team_test <> 'NULL'
                         and A.LastResult = 'Passed');
declare @iteration_any_results as decimal(10,2);
set @iteration_any_results=( select count(*)
          from dbo.View_Tests A
          where A.ProjectID = @project
          and A.Team_test <> 'NULL');
-- Data on a particular team's tests for a particular iteration
declare @team_tests_run_by_iteration as decimal(10,2);
set @team_tests_run_by_iteration = (
select count(*)
                         from dbo.View_Tests A
                         where A.ProjectID = @project
                         and A.Team_test = @team
                         and A.Iteration = @iteration
                         and A.LastResult <> 'Not Run');
declare @team_tests_passed_by_iteration as decimal(10,2);
set @team_tests_passed_by_iteration = (
                         select count(*)
                         from dbo.View_Tests A
                         where A.ProjectID = @project
                         and A.Iteration = @iteration
                         and A.Team_test = @team
                         and A.LastResult = 'Passed');
declare @team_tests_any_results_by_iteration as decimal(10,2);
set @team_tests_any_results_by_iteration = (
select count(*)
                         from dbo.View_Tests A
                         where A.ProjectID = @project
and A.iteration = @iteration
                         and A.Team_test = @team );
-- Progress in completion and success of tests in a particular iteration
select (@iteration_tests_run / @iteration_any_results ) * 100 as Iteration_1_percent_complete;
select (@iteration_tests_passed / @iteration_tests_run ) * 100 as Iteration_1_percent_success;
-- Progress in completion and success of tests for a particular test team in a particular iteration
select (@team_tests_run_by_iteration / @team_tests_any_results_by_iteration ) * 100 as SFS_percent_complete_Iteration_1;
select (@team_tests_passed_by_iteration / @team_tests_run_by_iteration ) * 100 as SFS_percent_success_Iteration_1;