Comparing Changes in Web Designer

On the Pending Changes page, the changes are organized by file name and path. Selecting the three dots will reveal a contextual menu for viewing the exact changes made to each file. Either choice leads to the Diff And Compare view.

Currently, all files that can be checked in are stored in a text-based XML format. The difference viewer is laid out in a two-column format, with each column showing the xml from the file versions you are trying to compare and each column header displaying what version the column is showing.

Comparing against the Latest Version will show the difference between your saved changes and the latest version checked in for the same files your changes are located in. If you have created a new file or if you are changing a base file for the first time, the latest checked-in custom version of that new file does not exist yet, so it will appear as blank on the “Latest (Custom)” column.

Comparing against the Base Version will show any additions or deletions you have made with your customizations. For resource files, the key-value pairs are added onto the existing base resources when running the web application, so old resources are not shown in the custom resource file. This will cause the xml file comparison to display multiple deletions, but all the base resource values will still be expressed in the web application unless explicitly overwritten.