automation of show differences

[cuninghamd]

Hi,
   I've had a look on the forums & help file but so far have not had much luck. I'm trying to find a way to to automate the production of the differences xml file that can be produced (i.e. when you do a show differences in the manage baselines dialogue there is an option to log to xml ) so it can be parsed and a more elegant report produced - also I wish to log the differences into a database or spreadsheet to be able to graph the numbers of changes periodically as well.

i.e. a way to programatically select the project-->manage baselines dialogue, set the log to xml and execute the show differences command, pick up the resulting xml file and import it into excel or a database (i can manage that !) to do time based reporting.

Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

Thanks

Dave.

[«Midnight»]

If it is just time-based reporting you are interested in, take a look at the auditing feature of EA. Perhaps that would provide an easier solution.

[cuninghamd]

Hi Midnight,
   thatks for the tip - unfortunately the way we have set up EA the auditing function does not suffice - as we are operating without a central daabase. - sharing is done purely via checkin to svn. so the audit logs will remain local on the users workstation.

& I don't want to get messy with exporting the audit from all the workstations !

any other sugestions ?

Thanks,

Dave.

[Eve]

Are you wanting Project.DoBaselineCompare()?

[cuninghamd]

Simon,
   That looks just the ticket ! - thanks. Obviously I couldn't see the wood for the trees when searching the help .

Thanks again,
Dave.