Using the Compare Dictionary feature

You have opened a data dictionary file when you launched the Data Dictionary Viewer. In this example, we will compare a data dictionary from two successive releases of the same LOB.

  1. Launch the Data Dictionary Viewer and open the baseline EDDV.
  2. In the File menu, select Open Compare Dictionary… and browse to the dictionary you want to compare to the baseline. Click Open.
  3. In the Browse to Folder dialog box, specify the desired location to write the report files. Note the default location is the same as the compare dictionary location. For example:


  4. Click OK to create the output folder. The folder name follows the convention of using the dictionary names separated by the word TO; for example: HECDLCOM_rel_HECDLCOM2014.1.1_20140127.1 TO HECDLCOM_rel_HECDLCOM2013.4.3_20131227.1
    If you do not have the access rights to create that folder, an error message will appear. Click OK to return to the Browse For Folder dialog box.


  5. A progress dialog box appears indicating progress.
    Note: Initially, this dialog may appear to be unresponsive; allow several minutes for completion, depending on the size of the dictionaries being compared and the processing power of the computer.
The results folder will contain the following eight report files.
WKFS