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Compare Snapshots (Advanced View)
You can compare two or more snapshots, milestones, or Standard CIs.
To compare snapshots, milestones, or Standard CIs in Advanced view
- Select a CI and navigate to its CI Detail page.
- Click the Versioning tab, and click Advanced.
Advanced Selection displays the CI.
- Navigate the folder hierarchy to the value you want to use for the snapshot comparison.
- Select a value for each snapshot comparison.
The comparison for the CI displays; for example, snapshot comparison based on the folder values selected.
The comparison view displays the following results:
- A column is displays how the snapshots or milestones differ.
- Each row displays the attribute values for the selected snapshots.
- Only attributes with differences are displayed. Date is always displayed unless snapshots are identical.
- Standard CI comparisons are not time-specific, so their Date fields are set to say Standard CI.
- Comparison results can be printed or exported to a CSV file.
Note: In Advanced view, two CIs can have a relationship with no relationship type assigned (for example, CIs created by CA NSM). Such relationship nodes are identified as (blank).