Comparing Review Instances

In Oracle Smart View for Office, you can compare two review instances to see what changes occurred between review cycles, depending on the review cycles to which you have access. For example, you can compare between a selected version and the prior version, or you can compare between a selected version and any other earlier version.

This allows you, as a reviewer, to be more efficient by focusing your review only on the content that has been updated, rather than reviewing all your assigned content with each review cycle.

To compare review instances:

  1. Open a report package.

    You should have access to two or more review cycle instances in order to use the review instance compare feature.

  2. In the Content Selector, select a review instance on which to base the compare.

    The review instances listed depend on the review instances to which you have been assigned.

    In the following example, there are four review instances listed. We'll select Review 04. Once you make a selection, the review instance opens in Word.


    The Content Selector in the Smart View Panel, showing that Review 04 is selected.
  3. In the Performance Reporting ribbon, click the arrow on the Compare button to view Compare changes since, then select a review instance from the drop-down list.

    Depending on the review instance selection you make in the Content Selector, you will see a corresponding list of earlier review instance versions on the Compare drop-down list. If only one review instance exists, then there will be no earlier versions to compare to.

    In the following example, we'll select Review 03. This means that we're going to look at the changes that occurred in Review 04 since Review 03.


    On the Performance Reporting ribbon, the small down arrow on the Compare button is selected, which displays a single drop-down menu item, Compare changes since, which contains a right arrow. Click the right arrow and another drop-down menu is displayed, containing all the earlier review instance versions that are available to you, depending on which review instances you have been assigned to.

    Smart View downloads the two review instances and generates a detailed comparison document using Microsoft Word's comparison feature. You can use the Previous and Next button in Word's Review ribbon to navigate through the compare document.


    The generated compare document in Word, similar to Word's compare functionality. Changes are called out and summarized, and you can use the Previous and Next buttons in the Word's Review ribbon to navigate through the document.

    The compare document is for viewing only. You do not need to use the Accept Changes functionality in order to keep any changes.

    You can go back to the current review instance to add any necessary comments, and open and check out any doclets that you want to change.

  4. When finished reviewing the changes, close the compare document.