Compare CDTS

RE: Compare CDTS

vijay — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:42:45 GMT

HI Krishna,

The exact function will only find the difference in primitive type fields in CDTs, but it's cannot check for multiple type fields. As suggested above you need to take an expression for finding a difference by comparing each individual element of update CDTs with oldCDTs.

Regards
Vijay

RE: Compare CDTS

nidhim855 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:51:30 GMT

Yes, It will work. Please try. if not working then use toString(). Like... exact(toString(pv!oldCDT), toString(pv!newCDT))

RE: Compare CDTS

krishnaprasadd0001 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:40:04 GMT

Hi nidhi,

But the exact function is used to compare two given Texts in a case-sensitive manner. Can we use this for CDTs having few fields of type multiple?

RE: Compare CDTS

kumars0003 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:36:54 GMT

This may help..
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/18.4/fnc_text_exact.html

RE: Compare CDTS

nidhim855 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:29:32 GMT

Hi Krishna,

Use exact(pv!oldCDT, pv!newCDT) function to compare two CDTs. If different, then it will return 'False' Boolean value.

Thanks,
Nidhi

RE: Compare CDTS

amitm9 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:19:16 GMT

Hi Krishna,

Hope you are holding both old and new value in two different CDT type variables.
you can use exact() function to compare two CDTs. IT will return true if no differences in value , else return false. If your requirement is to identify individual element of updated CDT then you can compare each element of both CDTs as well (in different expressions) and use as per your business requirement. Thank s

RE: Compare CDTS

sindhug — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:27:55 GMT

Hi Krishna,

please find the below shared component
forum.appian.com/.../summary

hope this is helpful.

RE: Compare CDTS

Shanmukha — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:44:41 GMT

Hi Krishana,

AFAIK, There is no function available to compare the list (from your usecase).