Review

Tracking Document Changes

Track Changes is a way to keep track of the changes you make to a document. You can activate change tracking for the current document by choosing Edit > Review > Track Changes or by clicking the Track Changes button located on the Author toolbar. When Track Changes is enabled, your modifications are highlighted using a distinctive color. The name of the author who is currently making changes and the colors can be customized from the Review preferences page.

Change Tracking in Author Mode

When hovering a change the tooltip will display information about the author and modification time.

If the selection in the Author contains track changes and you are copying it, the clipboard contains the selection with all the accepted changes. This filtering is performed only if the selection is not entirely inside a tracked change.

Tip: The changes are stored in the document as processing instructions and they do not interfere with validating and transforming it. For each change the author name and the modification time are preserved. The following processing instructions are examples of storing insert and delete changes in the document:
  • <?oxy_insert_start author="John Doe" timestamp="20090408T164459+0300"?>all<?oxy_insert_end?>
  • <?oxy_delete author="John Doe" timestamp="20090508T164459+0300" content="belong"?>

Adding Comments into a Document

You can associate a note or a comment to a selected area of text content. Comments can highlight virtually any content from your document, except read-only text. The difference between such comments and change tracking is that a comment can be associated to an area of text without modifying or deleting the text.

The actions for managing comments are Add Comment..., Edit Comment..., Delete Comment... and Manage Comments... and are available on the Author Comments toolbar and on the Review submenu of the contextual menu of Author editor.

Tip: The comments are stored in the document as processing instructions containing information about the author name and the comment time:
<?oxy_comment_start author="John Doe" timestamp="20090508T164459+0300" comment="Do not change this content"?>
    Important content
<?oxy_comment_end?>

Comments are persistent highlights with a colored background. The background color is customizable or can be assigned automatically by the application. This behavior can be controlled from the Review options page.