Upgraded Analytics Support

[MrChocolateMoose]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In the showcase project I was able to see analytics for the "count" of needs over time from version 1..4.

There were various basic views I was hoping to configure that I was unable to figure out how to achieve.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Select "field" (e.g. status "failed"/"passed") and see a stacked bar chart over time (e.g. versions)
• Select "field" and see a pie chart of bar graph of each of the values it contains for the version in question

Describe alternatives you've considered

• make graphs manually via exports

Additional context
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[danwos]

Thanks for sharing your request. I like the idea for bar charts.

Our plan is to give the Traceability tree the same features as Sphinx-Needs provides.
Plus, for sure, some new possibilities for representing history data.

Therefore each idea is welcome and gives us an direction of what to implement next.

[MrChocolateMoose]

Thanks,
If you are able to achieve the graphing listed above for fields and have (a) sphinx-needs filtering query and (b) ability to plot data over time (versions), then you would already surpass ALM tools like JAMA in their built-in feature set.

[MrChocolateMoose]

The ability to be able to plot data over time is the part I am the most interested in. For graphing, many companies use things like Grafana or other equivalents to look at data over time. I was hoping that if data was stored as a field in a need, that the spirit of "Dashboard anything / Observe anything" could be achieved in Sphinx-Needs for simple graph types.

Some example use cases to get the ideas flowing:

• If you had a nominal performance metric over time (e.g. CPU load) that was published as part of your CI pipeline and the result was a "need" with an "integer" field, then could ubtrace show that data over time?
• If you had some kind of needservice that contained issues and they had a closed/opened state, could you make a stacked bar chart over time?