Use of Comparison Categories

Comparison Categories allow certain categories of difference to be ignored so that attention can be focused on areas of priority. For example in the report shown below there are a number of differences reported on NAME and SPRE of components.

If a Comparison Category is defined to ignore differences of Names, Spec Attributes and Other Attributes, the report then appears as below. Note that the Comparison Category used is included in the report title. The differences concerned no longer appear as comments or as red icons, and will not participate in the aggregation of differences reported up the hierarchy (the worst case report). The actual data will still be visible in the report content.