How can I track changes?

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JupiterJones
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How can I track changes?

Post by JupiterJones »

I just had a first look at X-Edit Review in combination with Flare 4.
When integrating the corrections back into Flare I can accept/disable every single annotation in the reviewed topic, but I can only accept/not accept the changes for the whole topic - without knowing exactly what has been changed.

How do I find modified paragraphs or other elements to check whether the correction makes sense? Is there a way to compare the orginal to the reviewed topic?
Is there some kind of "track changes" function like in Word? That would be very helpful!

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Re: How can I track changes?

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My company is finally settling into a short, relatively low-stress period, and I'm looking into X-Edit as an easy way to get my help reviewed. I, too, am curious about this question. Anyone know the answer?
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Re: How can I track changes?

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Its not possible to currently track Changes, but what some users have done is that make a copy of the Orignal topic, so when they get the reviewed one back, they can compare them, before or after they accept the changes.
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Re: How can I track changes?

Post by Robotman »

Richard Ferrell wrote:Its not possible to currently track Changes, but what some users have done is that make a copy of the Orignal topic, so when they get the reviewed one back, they can compare them, before or after they accept the changes.
We've just done some testing with x-edit review 1.1 and whilst we'll implement it for effectively blank topics, we won't implement the full review until we can select the changes we want to include/exclude. I'm looking forward to v2 (hopefully not too far away).
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