Trying to compare record to a given database

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I’ve found some additional compare behaviour I don’t understand.

As it seems currently not possible to use compare record I used compare content. Maybe due to this some behaviour can be explained?

I’ve seen this depending on different PDF and Markdown records, behaviour does not change for the same record.

  • different results

    • why do AppleScript compare and UI See Also show different results?

    • are See Also’s results not sorted by score? (see below)

I collected compare results for two databases, then sorted them by score. The capture below shows that the See Also results are not sorted by score as the compare results definitely are, double checked as I was very surprised. This happened with different records. One thing I noticed is that it seems to happen only with pre-DEVONthink 3 records, but I’m not sure.

"See Also" vs. "compare"
"See Also" vs. "compare"1057×380 206 KB

  • results count

    • why does See Also’s count change? Most often it’s 10, but sometimes less, sometimes more.

    • why is compare's count always 10?

    • would it be possible to get a results count parameter for compare?

Could you please explain a little how this works and which is the “realer” one? :slight_smile: