{"id":21116,"date":"2015-12-21T01:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2019-04-21T23:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T06:32:56","slug":"how-to-compare-projectsbranches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/21116\/how-to-compare-projectsbranches\/","title":{"rendered":"How to compare Projects\/Branches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Overview<\/h3>\n
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This article describes the procedure on how to compare the differences between records in two different Projects\/Branches.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Who should read this?<\/h3>\n
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  • TopTeam Users<\/li>\n
  • TopTeam Project Admins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Prerequisites<\/h3>\n
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    • You must be a Team Member <\/i>in the Projects<\/i> that you wish to compare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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      Step 1. Go to TopTeam main menu and click Compare Project Branches…<\/h3>\n
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      Step 2. Query Options tab opens, select a Scope<\/h3>\n
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      Select Let me select any Project or Branch<\/strong><\/i> if you want to compare records across projects and branches.
      \nSelect Let me select a Branch related to Project\/Branch 1<\/strong><\/i> if you want to compare records in different branches of the same project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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      Step 3. Select the Projects\/Branches that you want to compare<\/h3>\n
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      Step 4. Select the type of differences that you want to view<\/h3>\n
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      Select Compare record differences only<\/strong><\/i> to view the differences in records alone.
      \nSelect Compare record and link differences<\/strong><\/i> to view the differences in both records and their links.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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      Step 5. Select the Record Types that you want to display in the comparison<\/h3>\n
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      NOTE<\/strong>:
      \nUse Advanced Options<\/i> <\/strong>only if you wish to compare specific Record Types, else all Record Types will display in the comparison.
      \nYou can select the Show Compare (Legacy)<\/strong><\/i> option to compare projects\/branches that were created prior to upgrading to TopTeam version 9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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      Step 6. Comparison tab opens displaying the differences between the selected Projects\/Branches for Use Cases Record Type<\/h3>\n
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      The above screenshot shows the comparison of Use Cases between the two specified Projects\/Branches.<\/p>\n

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      • Blue<\/span><\/strong><\/i> indicates that the records are added in that branch.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Red<\/span><\/strong><\/i> indicates that the records are deleted from that branch.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Green<\/span><\/strong><\/i> indicates that the records are modified in that branch.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Fuchsia<\/span><\/strong><\/i> indicates that the records are modified in both branches.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        Step 7. Click an option to view a comparison of the selected records<\/h3>\n
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        Step 8. Compare Records pop-up window displays<\/h3>\n
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        View the exact differences between a selected record and its corresponding record from another project\/branch in this pop-up window.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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        Step 9. Click these buttons to select the next or a previous difference<\/h3>\n
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        Step 10. Merge changes of modified records from one project into another<\/h3>\n
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        Alternately, you can also merge records via the menu options available on right-clicking a selected record<\/h3>\n
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        NOTE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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        • You can either merge records from Project\/Branch 1 to Project\/Branch 2 or vice-versa.<\/li>\n
        • Only the selected records of a project\/branch will be merged into the other project\/branch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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          Step 11. Merge Records with Links pop-up window displays<\/h3>\n
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          Step 12. Specify if you want to merge linked records also for the selected records<\/h3>\n
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          Step 13. Select the linked records that you want to merge<\/h3>\n
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          The selected records and their linked records are merged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          Step 14. Generate a report which illustrates the record and link differences between the two Projects<\/h3>\n
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          Step 15. Generate Documents & Reports pop-up window displays<\/h3>\n
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          Click Generate…<\/strong> <\/i>to generate the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          Revised: December 21st, 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          Overview This article describes the procedure on how to compare the differences between records in two different Projects\/Branches. Who should read this? TopTeam Users TopTeam Project Admins Prerequisites You must be a Team Member in the Projects that you wish to compare. Step 1. Go to TopTeam main menu and click Compare Project Branches… Step 2. Query Options tab opens, select a Scope Select Let me select any Project or Branch if you want to compare records across projects and branches. Select Let me select a Branch related to Project\/Branch 1 if you want to compare records in different branches <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[330,215,30],"class_list":["post-21116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-branching","tag-branches","tag-compare","tag-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoaNA-5uA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47230,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions\/47230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}