Compare Two Objects (Workbooks, Data Sources, Flows)

In this scenario, you compare typical business objects: workbooks, data sources, and flows.

Tip

You can choose two objects from different environments, but you cannot choose two objects of different types.

Complete the following steps:

1. Open the Visual Diff tab. The Initial View opens.
2. If you have a mixed SAP BO CMS/Tableau landscape, switch to Tableau at the bottom of the Initial View.
3. In the mode selector at the top of the window, switch to the Data mode.
4. In the Tree View, select the first object to compare, for example: DS Artist chinook Oracle data source. Drag-and-drop it to the Left Target area.
5. Select another object in the Tree View. Drag-and-drop it to the Right Target area:

MMTE Client starts analysis. When complete, the Difference Visualization View opens and shows differences between the selected objects:

Each business object is a chunk of structured data which consists of a tree structure and properties (fields) assigned to tree vertices. Visual Diff scans the tree structure of the Left Target object, finds vertices which are common with a Right Target object, and compares the properties attached to these vertices in both objects.

For example, for data sources, the object consists of a collection of connections and a collection of columns. Each connection and each column has more or less the same set of properties.

A property (field) is a key-value pair. It is considered

• unchanged, if it is located at the same vertex in the tree, has the same key, and the same value
• changed, if it is located at the same vertex in the tree, has the same key, and a different value
• inserted, if it is located at certain vertex in the tree on the Right Target and not found there on the Left Target
• deleted, if it is located at certain vertex in the tree on the Left Target and not found there on the Right Target

Tree vertices are not compared in this mode.

See Also

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