Does anyone know of something that can compare different versions of the same database to highlight the code changes?
It can compare different database, or templates or something. I just need something that can analyse a whole database and let me know what code has been introduced or modified.
Cheers,
Katherine
Subject: Comparing code in different database versions
A few techniques are open to you if you don’t want to go down the route of commercial products like Teamstudio’s Delta:
Export db design as DXL and perform a diff on the resulting files
Compare design notes programmatically using the NotesNoteCollection class
Eyeball / diff the changes between the two database synopsis reports
HTH
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Subject: Try TeamStudios Delta product.
Subject: Comparing code in different database versions
Katherine,
One way I suppose you could accomplish this is to generate design synopses for each database in Designer via Other → Synopsis and then use a text editor like NoteTab Light, available free at www.notetab.com, and run its “Compare Files” utility.
Ken
Subject: use Lotusscript?
I think - though I haven’t tried it for real - that you can examine design notes using the NotesNoteCollection. This script is a starting point, you could see what fields are available for comparison.
Sub Initialize
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim nc As NotesNoteCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim noteID As String
Dim i As Integer
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set nc = db.CreateNoteCollection(False)
nc.SelectForms = True ’ or agents or whatever
Call nc.BuildCollection
noteID$ = nc.GetFirstNoteId
For i% = 1 To nc.Count
Set doc = db.GetDocumentByID(noteID$)
' get design info for comparison
noteID$ = nc.GetNextNoteId(noteID$)
Next i%
End Sub