CDDsearch.exe

CDDsearch will help you identity the CDD Reports that may be affected by a BusinessPlus Release.

This utility allows clients to identify any Table Definitions, Information Categories, and Reports that may be impacted by a BusinessPlus Release.

The tool is named "cddsearch.exe" and is located in the same directory CDD is executed on the user's PC.

Schema Change

When looking for schema changes, the tool requires two xml files. The first file represents a client's BusinessPlus Version and the second represents the next BusinessPlus update that they will be loading. Alternatively, it could be the current release and a previous one in order to view reports already impacted by the update changes.

XPath Query

The second search option allows the use of XPATH queries to search CDD XML storage information. This will most likely not be useful in looking for update changes but was simply added as another search option.

Results File

The next filename the tool needs is the location to put the search results. This tool creates a text file with the Table Definitions, Information Categories and Reports impacted with the schema changes. This will require a location that the current user has write permissions to on either the local or network filesystem.

Search Button

Once the Old Schema file, New Schema file and Results file have been identified the search button will allow the process to begin. The progress bar to the left of the search button will inform the user how far along in the process the tool is currently. The "Search Status" box will inform the user what item is being searched currently and the "Matches Found" box will keep a count of the number of items (Information Categories or Reports) that have items impacted by the schema change.

Schema Files

Although the schema files can be generated on the client system with xschema, refer to KB article # 5053 for a few examples.