Categories

Comparison Categories allow certain categories of difference to be ignored so that attention can be focused on areas of priority. Multiple Categories to be used with different Configurations can be defined. For example: in the early stages of a project, reporting differences in most attributes can be switched off, but as the data matures a full comparison can be run.

When a category of difference is switched off, the differences concerned no longer appear as comments or as red icons, and do not participate in the aggregation of differences reported up the hierarchy (the worst case report), also the relevant rows in the Compare Report lower Data panel are not shown.

To add a new Category, right click Categories in the Integrator Project Configuration Explorer and select Insert.

Use the check boxes to specify which categories of differences are reported against which types of elements. For example, from the out of box default project configuration file, some of the categories are:

Earlier versions of Integrator had comparison categories stored separately. To import these into the configuration file, right click in the Categories node in the explorer tree and select Import User Defined Categories.