Compare Setup Data Using Implementation Project

You can compare setup data of two implementation projects using their respective configuration packages. To do this task, you need the Export Import Functional Setups User (ORA_ASM_FUNCTIONAL_SETUPS_USER_ABSTRACT) role.

You also need an appropriate application administrator role or a role with task-specific privileges to migrate the setup data. And, you need access to additional roles if you're comparing certain business objects. For more information about additional roles for these business objects, see topic Additional Access Required for Exporting and Importing Setup Data.

To compare setup data using an implementation project, follow these steps:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Setup and Maintenance.

2. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, run an export process at the target environment to prepare for setup data comparison. Create an implementation project in the target environment that matches exactly the same task lists and tasks as the implementation project you used at your source environment to create the configuration package file you want to import. Use this implementation project to run the export process at the target environment.

3. Once the export process completes, upload the configuration package file from your source environment into the target environment. Follow the same process as needed, to upload a configuration package for import. However, don't run the import process.

4. Once the upload process completes successfully, select Manage Export and Import Processes from the Tasks panel tab.

5. On the Manage Export and Import Processes page, click Compare.

6. On the Comparison Processes page, select the Create new icon to create a new comparison process.

   1. Select the configuration package you uploaded from your source environment as Source 1. If you have multiple versions of the same configuration package available, then select the correct process date to identify the correct version of the file.

   2. Select the configuration package you created by running the export process at the target environment to prepare for comparison, as Source 2. Like Source 1, if the configuration package you selected for Source 2 has multiple versions available in the target environment, select the correct process date to identify the correct version.

   3. Change the default process name, if required and click Submit.

7. Once the comparison process is submitted, the new process is listed on the Comparison Processes page.

8. The Status column displays the status of the process. Monitor the status until the process completes.

9. When the Status column reads Completed successfully, select the process name to go to the Configuration Package Comparison page to review the details of the results.

10. If the comparison process doesn't complete successfully, select the status to go to the Comparison Process Results page and review the error details.