Thanks Scott and Brent for bringing out some very good points. We have received similar requests and as mentioned few CRs were also logged to enhance not only the user experience but add capability and functionality for administration tools. It not only is related to schema differencing, upgrades but also towards other areas of project setup, configuration and administration during the project life cycle. This actually aligns with our planned product development roadmap, and to cater for this exact need, we have been working on creating a brand new tool "OpenPlant Project Administrator". I would encourage you to join a introductory webinar on its upcoming release. You can register at: http://pages.info.bentley.com/webinars/ With this tool you will find many improvements in project creation, configuration, tagging (defining expressions on ec properties) and schema management. Schema differencing and upgrade is something we are currently working on and is not part of the early Q2 release. The schema update feature is planned for late July 2015 release. The idea is to present users with change sets or lists the fixes, enhancements for which any schema change occurred. So instead of trying to figure out individual changes, all schema upgrade will be automatically done based on your choice of opting to include an upgraded feature or not. All of your existing changes are retained and any clashes (if properties are changed in our new version of out of the box schemas) are reported and resolved. In this way you will not need to select individual schemas as you do now with class editor but for a particular feature change all schemas changes will be automatically done through an interface which will show you all the changes and details. It may be a good idea to engage you more and show this in more detail once this is part of certified alpha builds and get feedback. I appreciate the comments provided looking forward to you using OpenPlant Project Administrator. Regards, Abbas
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