Grammar setting not sticking...

[mikedgre]

great workaround

I found a workaround solution. I highlight the compare session and do a ‘save as’
to another session name. After opening the new saved session (with different name),
I enter more file names for source and target that have this same record length, grammar rules, and uimportant
rules. The settings are copied over (cloned). It is just a few steps so I am happy. I had to think out of the box.
I am so happy now. Doing a ‘save as’ from the session to create a cloned session does the trick.
Thanks!

File Formats are global. If you are editing a format that can only be for a specific folder, then you would need multiple formats (Each defined with a mask that matches only for the specific folder, or disabled and enabled only in that Folder Compare session).

However, if you are only defining Unimportance, this can be done for a specific saved Folder Compare session by:
- Double click on a file in the Folder Compare.
- In the child Compare, go to the Session menu -> Session Settings, Importance tab, and define new Unimportant rules (above the grammar list).
- Update the bottom dropdown from "use only for this view" to "use for all files in parent session"
- Close the child compare, and re-save the parent Folder Compare session.

[Aaron]

File Formats are global. If you are editing a format that can only be for a specific folder, then you would need multiple formats (Each defined with a mask that matches only for the specific folder, or disabled and enabled only in that Folder Compare session).

However, if you are only defining Unimportance, this can be done for a specific saved Folder Compare session by:
- Double click on a file in the Folder Compare.
- In the child Compare, go to the Session menu -> Session Settings, Importance tab, and define new Unimportant rules (above the grammar list).
- Update the bottom dropdown from "use only for this view" to "use for all files in parent session"
- Close the child compare, and re-save the parent Folder Compare session.

[mikedgre]

I have different folders with compares of the same file type. In my case they are mainframe files.
If I change the grammar on 1 compare, the other file compares in other folders have the same grammar change.
Can I make the grammar unique to the folder where all compares in that folder have the same grammar ?
I tried to add grammar rules and the checkboxes are not being exercised. Here is an example below.

(All mainframe files in Folder 1 on Grammar checkbox)
X Item1=1 to end of line
Item2=1 to 71

(All mainframe files in Folder 2 on Grammar checkbox)
Item1=1 to end of line
X Item2=1 to 71

When I go back and forth between folder 1 and folder 2, the settings always change from 1 to the other.
The grammar change is global. I tried doing the lock option but that did not work.