Automated Design Comparison for Lotus Notes

Teamstudio Delta allows developers and administrators to compare the differences between two databases for both design elements and documents. With Delta, they can quickly identify design element changes between two versions of a database in a visual side-by-side display.

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Use Case: Government Agency - Standardization & Compliance

As a major housing industry leader, this client works with more than 4,000 clients. They address client issues including rental management, residence security, and accident management. Learn how this customer utilized Teamstudio Delta as apart of their best practice procedures.

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Teamstudio Delta Best Practice Tip #1

Preserving Changes to Your Mail Template During an Upgrade

If you've made changes to your mail template in Lotus Notes R7, you can use Delta to ensure the upgrade to 8 preserves all of your edits.

The Business Challenge

So you've decided it's time to move to Notes 8. But one of your biggest concerns is that all the changes you've made to the mail template since upgrading to R7 will be lost. Don't know all the modifications you've made in all this time?

The Teamstudio Solution

Using Delta you can compare your modified mail template to the original R6 template and identify all the changes you've made, down to each line of code.

Once you've determined that, you can insert all of those changes into the new 8 mail template.

The Result

The upgrade from R7 to 8 includes all changes made to the R7 template saving the time necessary to duplicate the labor.

Teamstudio Delta Best Practice Tip #2

Resolving Save or Replication Conflicts with Teamstudio Delta

Teamstudio Delta is a great tool for finding Save and Replication conflicts.

The Business Challenge

When two users open the same document in a Notes database, and save their changes at different times, Notes will sometimes have difficulty merging the changes. This can result in Save Conflicts. A similar situation can also occur in a replication scenario. In either case, Notes will create Replication or Save Conflict documents and they will display in the views along with your original documents. Now comes the really hard part: Trying to resolve the conflict.

Notes only allows you to open up an original document and its Conflict document. As a result, the only method you have for identifying the differences in the two documents is to switch back and forth between them. As you can imagine, this is a very time consuming task-especially if each document had a large number of fields that could have differences in data.

The Teamstudio Solution

You can use the Delta of 2 Documents function in the Actions menu to get a side-by-side comparison of two documents. This allows you to quickly identify all differences quickly and easily and resolve them.

The Result

The number of developer hours in the organization are dramatically reduced, saving both time and money.