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Merge request report

You can view summaries of your GitLab merge requests using customizable report templates.

To open GitLab merge request reports, click DevOps > MR Report.

You can also click DevOps > Merge Requests, click More actions for merge requests, and click Open as Tab.

The tab is titled MR Report. Opening it from the DevOps menu starts on the Report Gallery; opening the activity as a tab starts on the List report.

The Report Gallery is the only place reports are chosen. The toolbar keeps the filter on the left, and the centre holds a single Close Report button while a report is open. There is no view dropdown, so nothing can disagree with the gallery about which report you are looking at.

The Report Gallery presents every available report as a card with a miniature preview, the report’s name, and a short description of what it shows.

GitLab merge request reports are grouped into Layouts, Milestone, Date, Assignment, and Overview.

  • Click a card to switch the tab to that report.
  • Move between cards with the arrow keys, and press Enter or Space to open the focused report.
  • Reports the provider does not support are not listed.
  • Reports that summarize the whole result set remain unavailable until the current result is complete. An unavailable report remains visible and shows the reason on its card. The gallery itself remains available because it describes reports rather than summarizing data.

Click Close Report to come back to the gallery. The button appears only while a report is open, because there is nothing to close while the gallery is already showing. To move from one report to another, close the current one and pick the next from the gallery.

What report cards show

The Cards and Board reports show the author’s avatar and name. The name matters because an avatar without an image falls back to an unexplained initial.

Filter merge requests

The merge request report displays all open merge requests in a repository by default. Use the filter control to select a filter template. Click Show or hide filters to open or close the filter panel. You can filter merge requests with multiple filters at a time.

Filter panel actions

In the merge request filter panel, click the following icons to perform a filter action.

IconDescription
SaveSaves the changes to the filter template.
Save AsSaves the changes as a new filter template.
Rename filterRenames the filter template.
Revert to saved stateDiscards changes made to the filter template.
Delete this filterDeletes the filter template.