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sjrrkb123
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3 years ago
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Deployment Pipeline Shows Differences in Datasets but ALM Toolkit Shows the Datasets as Identical

I am running into an issue where after deploying an update to a dataset and pushing it from DEV to Test, our deployment pipeline is showing the datasets as being different. I used the ALM Toolkit to ...
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    edhans
    3 years ago

    For safety you can save the model as a BIM file using Tabular Editor, then just promote through the pipeline so they get back in sync. It could be some insignificant metadata that the pipeline is seeing that ALM Toolkit isn't looking at.

    You might also compare the two BIM files in NotePad++ using the Comparer 2.0.2 addin. The BIM files are just JSON.

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edhans
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3 years ago

For safety you can save the model as a BIM file using Tabular Editor, then just promote through the pipeline so they get back in sync. It could be some insignificant metadata that the pipeline is seeing that ALM Toolkit isn't looking at.

You might also compare the two BIM files in NotePad++ using the Comparer 2.0.2 addin. The BIM files are just JSON.

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sjrrkb123
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3 years ago

edhans appreciate the information. I use TE3 enterprise and have these stored as .bim files so I will investigate.

 

That said, I did hear back from MSFT support engineers and was told the differences shown is a bug and a fix is currently being worked on by the product team.