Enhance Product Compare to allow user to save the results

[DennisClark]

The results of a DejaCode Product Compare can be very useful in the ongoing analysis and communication activities that happen during product SCA or the defining of a new product version.

It would be extremely helpful for the User to be able to save the results in Excel format. Other nice formats would be a Word document (where the results would be in a Word document table, if possible) and/or html and/or pdf. But the most important and useful output format would probably be Excel, in order to support analysis, editing, and annotation among product stakeholders.

Note that there are some non-editable workarounds:

• You can do a browser "Save Page As..." on the Product Comparison, and select "Web Page Complete" (or equivalent, depending on browser), which generates an html file, but with some formatting issues.
• You can Print the Product Comparison using your browser, perhaps using the save-to-PDF option.

[DennisClark]

@tdruez The download works nicely on staging starship. I have one little suggested improvement: perhaps the exported filename should contain the Product Name, since we are normally comparing two versions of the same Product. For example, something like "CargoManager_product_comparison.xlsx" .

[DennisClark]

Product Review
If you select two versions of the same Product in the Product list, or two different Products, and click the Compare button, you can now download the results of the comparison to a .xlsx file, making it easy to share the information with your colleagues.

[tdruez]

I have one little suggested improvement: perhaps the exported filename should contain the Product Name

@DennisClark Since there are 2 products in the comparison, which one should be used in the output file name?

[DennisClark]

Ah, never mind about the output file name. I have never compared two different products, just different product versions, but since we support any comparison (I just now tried it), trying to generate a predictable output file name is probably way too complicated. In short, it's great the way it is now, thanks. Suggested release note updated.

[tdruez]

Merged and deployed.