Comparing jobs

This procedure describes how to display a list of a difference between two jobs in a Workspace, two different versions of the same job from the Job History window, and/or compare a job with its predecessor job. This enables you to view the value of the fields that differ and to generate comparison reports in HTML, text, or XML format.

To compare jobs:

1. Do one of the following:
   1. In a Workspace, select two jobs to compare, and from the Analysis group, select .
   2. In the tree pane, right-click a job and select Compare with predecessor.

      The Job Comparison window appears.

2. To show rows with differences, select Only show changes.
3. To search for a string in the field values, in field next to , type in the string, and click .
4. To generate a comparison report, do the following:
   1. Click .
   2. Select the destination folder and the type of document for the report.

   The comparison report is generated and can be viewed.