Compare Elements in the Same Database with Delta
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Today's tip comes to us from John Kingsley....
We all know there is never enough time to do something over, but if you ever have had to work on a database and seen something like a form called, 'Copy of..." and wondered what was changed between that form and the original, here is a crazy idea. Compare the database to itself using Teamstudio's Delta!
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The first thing you need to do is turn off the option to Hide identical objects. Then select the copy in one side and the original in the other, then right click and tell Delta to Match the two 'versions'. You will then see something like the picture below.
Note the red X indicating that the two forms are different. Now you can easily see what has changed from one version to the other.
Or maybe you have found a couple of agents that sound similar - Delete line 1, Delete line 2, etc. How different are they and can they be combined into one agent with a parameter? Again, select the two and match them up. Delta will show you just how different the two are.