Comparing solutions

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You can use Case Builder to compare two solutions.

About this task

To address the unique requirements of their organizations, customers might choose to customize the case management solutions that they use. When these customers upgrade their case management solutions, they do not want to lose any changes that they previously made to the solutions. Using the results of the solution comparison report, customers can update their customized case management solutions after they upgrade.

Procedure

To compare solutions:

  1. Log in to Case Builder.
  2. Find one of the solutions that you want to compare and click More Actions > Compare.
    Important: The solutions that you want to compare must be committed.
    Tip: If you plan to compare two versions of the same solution, select the older version first.
  3. Select the other solution that you want to compare and click OK.
    Ignore solution prefixes
    Solution prefixes are unique; no two solutions have the same prefix.
    • Leave this option selected to hide the prefixes of the solutions being compared.
    • Clear this option to see the prefixes of the solutions being compared.
    Ignore GUIDs of the objects
    Object GUIDs are unique; no two objects have the same GUID.
    • Leave this option selected to hide the GUIDs of the objects being compared.
    • Clear this option to see the GUIDs of the objects being compared.
  4. View the results of the comparison in the messages area of the Manage Solutions page.
    High-level information
    High-level information is provided for the following items:
    • Pages
    • Rules
    • Activity workflows
    • Views
    Detailed information
    More detailed information (such as actual values) is provided for the following items:
    • Case properties
    • Case types
    • Choice lists
    • Content Platform Engine configuration values
    • Document classes
    • In-baskets
    • Roles
    • Activity properties
    • Activities
    In the results, the solution for which you selected the Compare action is referred to as Solution 1, and the solution that you are comparing it to is referred to as Solution 2. The results include information about what items are different between solutions:
    Modified
    The item exists in both solutions, but its value is different in each solution.
    Missing
    The item is missing in Solution 1 (that is, the item exists only in Solution 2).
    Found
    The item exists only in Solution 1 (that is, the item is missing in Solution 2).
    Tip: The messages area is dynamic and always displays the most recent message. To give yourself time to thoroughly review the results of the comparison, copy the results to a text file. If the comparison results in the message area are overwritten before you can review them on-screen, run the comparison again.
    Restriction: The solution comparison detects changes that were made to objects that are visible in Case Builder only. It doesn't detect changes made by IBM® FileNet® Process Designer to Content Platform Engine objects such as event logs, queues, and rosters.