VideosGenerating File or Directory Comparison Reports in Oxygen

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Duration: 04:10

This video offers a demonstration of using tools within Oxygen XML Editor to generate file or directory comparison reports in various formats.

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00:00:08The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how to generate various reports that

00:00:12show the results of a file or directory comparison using tools within Oxygen.

00:00:19First I'll open the Compare Files tool ... and I'll specify two files to compare.

00:00:32And you can see that it automatically did the file comparison and shows the differences.

00:00:37Now, I'll go to the File menu and select "Save Results as HTML", I'll specify a name and path,

00:00:48and I open the resulting report file,

00:00:51and it displays information about all the detected differences.

00:00:59Now, I'll generate an HTML report using the Compare Directories tool.

00:01:04I'll specify two directories to compare ... now I'm going to toggle the "Show only

00:01:15modifications" toolbar button because when the HTML report is generated, instead of displaying

00:01:21the full structure of the compared directories, the report only displays the differences

00:01:27(the same as when the Show only modifications button is toggled).

00:01:35There is also an action in the Tools menu

00:01:38called Generate HTML Report for Directory Comparison.

00:01:42It can be used to generate an HTML report for 2 or 3-way directory comparisons.

00:01:47I first need to specify the paths to the base and the two directories to compare.

00:01:56You can choose to use the current settings from Preferences ...

00:02:01and clicking the blue widget opens the Directories Comparison preferences page.

00:02:09I'll choose to use the default settings this time.

00:02:13There is also an option to generate additional file comparison reports,

00:02:18and I'll click the information button. And it explains that this option generates

00:02:23file comparison reports for all non-binary modified file pairs

00:02:27with links to them in the main report.

00:02:31Then I need to specify the path and name for the output file.

00:02:35And I'll leave the option selected to open the results in the browser or system application ...

00:02:42and after I click Generate report, the main report is automatically opened in my browser.

00:02:48You see that the results are displayed similar to the reports you saw earlier.

00:02:54I can click on one of the diff symbols in the middle columns to

00:02:57open the corresponding file comparison reports for that particular file pair.

00:03:04Back in Oxygen, I'll select that action again,

00:03:11and this time I'll change some options to refine the results.

00:03:15So, I'll choose "use the current settings from Preferences" ...

00:03:21and I'll click the blue settings widget. From the preference page, I'll click on the

00:03:23link for "Configure content comparison" ... this opens the Files Comparison preferences

00:03:30page and I'm going to specify that it ignores whitespaces and XML comments.

00:03:40I'll generate the report ... and if I click the symbol for that same file pair,

00:03:48you see that the resulting report is filtered and now only

00:03:513 differences are detected rather than 5. As you can see, there are a lot of different

00:03:57options that you have available to refine the HTML reports to suit your specific needs.

00:04:03This concludes the demonstration. Thank you for watching.

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