changes since baseline to some attributes

hi

does anyone have any way of showing changes to specific attributes since last baseline? ive tried the smartdxl one but it lists changes to all attributes. i just want to pick out 3 attributes

thanks

:)

Re: changes since baseline to some attributes
Antonio__Norkus - Tue Jul 05 06:52:48 EDT 2016

Peter Albert's script, in the following thread, is very useful for such analysis:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014785677#77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014786169

Re: changes since baseline to some attributes
Mike.Scharnow - Tue Jul 05 06:55:58 EDT 2016

In addition: Are you referring to the solution at http://www.smartdxl.com/content/?p=714 ? I do not see why you should not be able to adopt the code for your attributes. The changes need to be done around line 80

Re: changes since baseline to some attributes
doorsuser77 - Tue Aug 09 11:22:22 EDT 2016

hi

thanks for that - got that working ok.

now another question - is there some way of displaying the baseline text - so i can have 3 columns

1. baselined text

2. revised text

3. marked up text?

thanks - not really sure how to do this so any help much appreciated

ta

Re: changes since baseline to some attributes
Mike.Scharnow - Tue Aug 09 12:38:02 EDT 2016

Hm, you have all the information you need, it is rather a matter of how to display this information.

In the function "compareObjects" (original script from Tony Goodman) there are variables "ot" for "old text", "nt" for "new text", "oh" for "old heading" and "nh" for "new heading".

So, you could easily say

// changes to object heading
if (oh != nh)
{
 // create differences string
 diff(tempBuf, oh, nh)
 diffBuf += "{\\i Object Heading old: }"
 diffBuf += oh
 diffBuf += "{\\par \\i Object Heading new: }"
 diffBuf += nh
 diffBuf += "{\\par \\i Object Heading diff: }"
 diffBuf += tempBuf

 ...

but that might not be what your users want.

Perhaps you can create not one but three DXL columns, each with an identical code except for which variable you display, oh in column 1, nh in column 2, tempBuf in column 3?

Hoping that this gives you an idea on how to proceed...