eric_h - Monday, November 14, 2011 11:38 AM:
I am cleaning out my files, and came across this I wrote some time ago. At the end I'll add what might be an issue:
"I'm wondering if anyone has thought the same thing, but it would be cool if Aras instead of redlining the whole Ref Des string and showing the whole new Ref Des string in BOM Redline Mode, instead was able to only redline out the designators that were removed and show in blue what was new.
This would obviously make the underlying code a little more difficult. Right now I assume the code just compares the two string values as stored in the database, but in what I am talking about both string values would need to be parsed into arrays (assumed using the comma as a separator and ignoring any leading/trailing spaces) and then compared for differences.
This is not anything major, but would be a nice feature in that the differences in reference designator values would stand out more. Right now you have to visually inspect the two strings to find the difference."
The one issue I see at the moment would be that a single redline at say the end of the ref des sequence might not stand out as much, but that might be worth the value of knowing *exactly* what has changed. Anyway, wanted to delete the file this was in and thought I'd share as an idea.
