The Diff panel automatically appears whenever a document collection is selected in the
selection tree (even a My Selection). This window is intended to help users find the differences between a large number of documents and perform Mass Data Modifications to those documents.
Tip | You can sort the results by clicking on any column header and resize columns. |
The
Diff results are displayed in a 4-column table, providing information on all the fields of the selected documents :
Field type icon |
| Text |
| Text List (Note: If a field in your document selection contains one-or-more of each Text and Text List types, Text List will take precedence and appear under the Type column. ) |
| Number |
| Number list (Note: If a field in your document selection contains one-or-more of each Number and Number List types, Number List will take precedence and appear under the Type column.) |
| Date |
| Date list (Note: If a field in your document selection contains one-or-more of each Date and Date List types, Date List will take precedence and appear under the Type column.) |
| Authors |
| Names |
| Readers |
| Formula |
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Field name | Name of the field in the document(s) |
A flag |
| The absence of a flag means the field value is the same in all documents |
| The field contains different types between documents or values which cannot be compared (for example, Rich text) |
| The field contains different values between documents |
| The field does not exist in every documents |
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Information about the value of the field | See above screenshot for examples of possible values. |
Available actions
Tip | If any values were changed, you must click the Diff button again to refresh the data. |
Diff Snapshots
Ytria scanEZ caches Diff results in case you leave a
Diff screen to click on another note or folder. The next time you click on the document collection, scanEZ will display a snapshot of those previously created Diff results. If you click
Database>Open Database With>scanEZ to open another scanEZ session, any cached Diff results will be available.