Custom quadrant name yields empty quadrant
jacobmclocklin opened this issue · comments
Hello -
We previously had success with custom quadrant names for all quadrants -- our BYOR radar rendered correctly. Now, our radar quadrants are empty (no blips) unless the quadrant names are exactly the defaults.
We use BYOR hosted on radar.thoughtworks.com. We supply a Google Sheet that requires authentication.
When I loaded the radar today, it was empty. I debugged based on the info here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/radar/byor. That says "you can rename these [quadrants] to anything you want, as long as there are four in total." We were following this correctly (exactly four). In the spirit of trial and error, I renamed the quadrants back to the exact default names, and the radar fully populates.
I ran into the same issue. In the old radar, quadrants were automatically read from the CSV. This worked as long as there was four (like you said). This has changed in the new radar though. To support custom quadrant names, you need to build the radar locally with those quadrant names exposed as an env variable.
It's documented [here](To specify custom ring and/or quadrant names, add the following environment variables with the desired values) on the readme.
My understanding is if you are not using the default quadrants, then you need to build it locally with your custom quadrants.
@niallr07 stated the right sentence (here is the link: https://github.com/thoughtworks/build-your-own-radar#docker-image). You need to provide environment variables with your custom ring/quadrant information.
For myself: I had to escape everything when using the command line, example:
$ docker run --rm -p 8080:80 -e SERVER_NAMES="localhost 127.0.0.1" -e RINGS="[\"Adopt\", \"Trial\", \"Assess\", \"Hold\"]" -e QUADRANTS="[\"Languages & Frameworks\", \"Methods & Patterns\", \"Platforms & Operations\", \"Software & Tools\"]" -v /mnt/radar/files/:/opt/build-your-own-radar/files wwwthoughtworks/build-your-own-radar
Hi @jacobmclocklin, apologies for the late reply!
As others have mentioned in this thread, the online hosted version of BYOR (https://radar.thoughtworks.com) now requires the input data to conform to the four rings and quadrants names specified. If you would like to use custom ring and/or quadrant names, you can setup a local instance and set the custom names to it. For a docker setup, you can use the command mentioned by @danielkoch to pass the names. If you would like to run it as a node server itself, you can export the variables.
Additionally, we have updated the FAQs mentioned, regarding this, here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/radar/byor. Sorry for the confusion there.
Thanks!
Ah, well it is unfortunate to lose this feature, and unfortunate that the docs/FAQ were out of sync with the capabilities. But I am thankful for the answer, explanation, and the updates.