) in the Compare section of the Developer toolbar to make a direct comparison with the latest saved version of the same model or application. You can also click the Compare button (
). A Select Application window then opens, where you can select the Model MPH-file (the remote file) to which you want to compare the current model in the COMSOL Desktop (the local file).
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) box next to the list. The filter matching is done with regular expressions, and any label that contains a matching text will be either included or excluded. Filtering can be disabled by choosing No filter from the Filter results list. Click the Show Only Active Settings button (
) next to the list to exclude inactive settings from the comparison. Such settings are not actively used in the current model state and do not typically appear in the COMSOL Desktop. Select or clear the Include Only Outgoing Changes (
), Include Only Incoming Changes (
), and Include Only Conflicting Changes (
) buttons as desired to change the view to include one of those types of changes. Incoming changes here are changes that someone has made to the remote file since the last update of the local file. Such incoming changes will be merged to the local file during an update of that file. Outgoing changes are changes that someone has made to the local file and that has not been committed to the remote file yet. Such outgoing changes will be merged to the remote file during a commit of the file. The categorization of incoming and outgoing changes requires version information (available for models that use version control in the Model Manager). For models without version information the categorization have little meaning, and they both just represent a general difference.
) below the table to open the Compare Attribute window. When applicable, you can also right-click a node and choose Go to Remote Source, Go to Older Version, or Go to Newer Version to display the corresponding node in one of those trees. For nodes where values differ, right-click and choose Go to Node in Local File, Go to Node in Remote File, Override Difference in Local File, or Override Difference in Remote File, where you can use the last two options to discard the local changes or to transfer them to the remote file, respectively.
Compare Selected Nodes to compare the contents of the two nodes. The comparison appears in the Comparison Results window just like other comparisons, with similar functionality as described above.|
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For nodes that correspond to a node in the Model Builder tree, right-click the node and choose Override Difference in Opened (
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When the comparison has version information (for models that use version control in the Model Manager) and the node corresponds to the root node in the Model Builder, you can right-click and choose Merge Changes to Opened. This operation only merges the changes that has been done in the other version after you started editing your version. An example is when you edit a model in a Model Manager database and another user has edited the same model after you opened your version. For this merge operation, there is only one possible target that can be altered.
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), to make a new comparison. A 
), to update the comparison.
) and 
), where you can click to choose 
), to toggle between the view with the comparisons in a tree and a view with a list of the differences.
), to load the results from another comparison from an XML-file.
), to save the results from the current comparison to an XML-file.
), to move to the next difference in the tree with nodes that differ under 
), to move to the previous difference in the tree with nodes that differ under 
for a COMSOL MPH-file and 
for a runnable COMSOL application. Also, for database files in the Model Manager, information about the time and date when the file was saved and who saved it is displayed.