Reporting On Custom Issues Fields project Server 2010

Question

I have created a few new issue content types - wishing to create a customised Issues list for the site. I was wary of going near the default "Issue Status", "priority" or "category" fields, as several discussions here warned
against meddling with them. Whilst the issues creation process seems to work fine, I cannot see where i can retreive the data from these new fields in the SQL tables - they are not visible on the MSP_WSSIssueOlapView table. Where can I find these fields?

Answer 1

On top of what have been said, which are all good comments, I wish to add that obtaining fields from WSS_Content is not straight forward as you will need to look into the AllUserData table and identify which fields correspond to which Issues List columns.
This is because text columns (e.g. Issue Title) will be stored as nvarchar1, nvarchar2, date columns (e.g. Resolution Date) will be datetime1, datetime2 and so on. Date fields are stored in UTC time so you will need to add your local time offset to it. If
you need  to obtain the names of Issue Owner and Assignee you need also to link to the AllUserInfo table to get them. As an example, below is a sample SQL statement that I used for one of my reports:
SELECT MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectName, PWS.[Issue Title], PWS.Status, PWS.Priority, PWS.Category,
PWS.[Resolution Due Date], PWS.[Issue Owner], PWS.[Created Date], PWS.[Assign To]
FROM MSP_EpmProject_UserView INNER JOIN
(SELECT WSS_Content.dbo.Webs.FullUrl, CASE WHEN WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.nvarchar1 IS NULL
THEN WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.nvarchar11 ELSE WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.nvarchar1 END AS [Issue Title],
WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.nvarchar3 AS Status, WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.nvarchar5 AS Priority,
WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.nvarchar4 AS Category, DATEADD(hh, 8,
WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.datetime4) AS [Resolution Due Date], DATEADD(hh, 8, WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_Created)
AS [Created Date], WSS_Content.dbo.UserInfo.tp_Title AS [Issue Owner], UserInfo_1.tp_Title AS [Assign To]
FROM WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData INNER JOIN
WSS_Content.dbo.AllLists ON WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_ListId = WSS_Content.dbo.AllLists.tp_ID INNER JOIN
WSS_Content.dbo.Webs ON WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_SiteId = WSS_Content.dbo.Webs.SiteId AND
WSS_Content.dbo.AllLists.tp_WebId = WSS_Content.dbo.Webs.Id LEFT OUTER JOIN
WSS_Content.dbo.UserInfo ON WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.int3 = WSS_Content.dbo.UserInfo.tp_ID AND
WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_SiteId = WSS_Content.dbo.UserInfo.tp_SiteID LEFT OUTER JOIN
WSS_Content.dbo.UserInfo AS UserInfo_1 ON WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.int2 = UserInfo_1.tp_ID AND
WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_SiteId = UserInfo_1.tp_SiteID
WHERE (WSS_Content.dbo.AllLists.tp_Title = 'Issues') AND (WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_IsCurrent = 1) AND
(WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_DeleteTransactionId = 0) AND (WSS_Content.dbo.AllUserData.tp_RowOrdinal = 0)) AS PWS ON
PWS.FullUrl = RIGHT(MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectWorkspaceInternalHRef, LEN(PWS.FullUrl)) COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT
Hope this helps.
KH