Quick Start
The main screen is divided in two lists, in which the object sets can be loaded. Once two sets are loaded, the objects are compared and colored using the comparison state. The following states will be shown:
| White | unmodified | objects on left and right are the same. |
| Red | deleted | object is not in this list. |
| Green | added | object is not in other list. |
| Blue | modified | some properties are different. |
There are two ways to load object sets. The first, quick and easy one works by using the Windows clipboard. The second way uses a dataport which has to be imported in the databases.
By pressing the dropdown arrow next to the ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ buttons in the toolbar, and selecting the load method, you can load an object set. It’s also possible to use the last used method
For small object sets (less than 100 objects) the clipboard method is advised, but for the larger sets the dataport is much quicker. This is because when you copy the object set to the clipboard, Navision adds all objects in binary form to the clipboard. This takes quite a long time, and sometimes even fails.
Nice to know: in the status bar you can always see how many items there are in the list, how many there were added, deleted and modified. And if you’re a statistics freak, on the right you could see how much time it took to compare the lists.
DataPort Installation
If you want to use the dataport, you have to import the dataport first into your Navision database.
This can be done by selecting the ‘Get Dataport’ button on the toolbar. You are than prompted for a location for the textfile containing the dataport. After that you will be prompted for a dataport number. Once you import the textfile, you can find the dataport under that number.
If you have created the Textfile, you can go to Navision, import the textfile, and execute the dataport. This dataport creates a textfile with all object definitions.