Revision Bar

[TonySosi]

The ability to highlight CHANGED information in a revision which, when published, creates a vertical revision bar on the side of the page where the change is located. This would enable users of published manuals to quickly see where the changes have occurred.

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[Tim Green]

Hi Tony,

Help+Manual does not have content-level change tracking like that in MS Word and similar programs.

If you need change tracking, we recommend that you make Word DOCX versions of the old and new versions of the project and then compare the documents in Word. That will give you highlighting for all the changes that your manager can sign off on.

What Help+Manual does have is a history function for every project, with which you can perform manual before/after comparisons between different versions and then return to any saved version of a topic at any time. See here for details:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/help/inde ... istory.htm

In the current version of Help+Manual the PDF output can optionally include author comments inserted in the projects for generating commentable PDFs for peer review -- but this is also not really change tracking. Help+Manual also supports modern version control systems (Git and SubVersion included, other systems are configurable), which maintain a central copy of your projects and all changes on a server that can also be accessed via the Internet. These systems have functions that compare the source of your projects and topics and allow you to locate the differences.

Version control systems also allow authors in the same or different locations to collaborate on the same projects and synchronize their work efficiently. They make it possible for authors to work on collaborative projects offline -- even on a train or a plane. See this chapter in the help for details:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/help/inde ... ed_vcs.htm

Full, content-level change tracking like that in Word is not currently planned, however.