ManualWorks records the entire edit history. You can view revisions by “paragraph” or by “chapter,” and restore content to a revision from a specific point in time.

View Revision Menu

Use the <1View Revision> menu on the document details screen to compare revisions of a chapter or of the entire document. You can also compare tags.

Click the <1View Revision> menu to go to the integrated revision screen shown below. You can also click the “Revision” button in the editor sidebar to open the revision screen in a new window.

Comparing the Entire Document

Use the <1Document> comparison to view and compare the revisions of the entire document. It shows “Edited Chapter” and “Added Chapter” lists so that you can compare how the book changed over time.

• Select the 2document and 4time(date) whose revisions you want to check, and then click the Compare button. The “Edited Chapter” and “Added Chapter” lists for that day appear. You can also select a 3tag to compare.

• Click the <5Compare Revisions> link of an edited chapter to compare the revisions of that chapter on the right.

  • Click <Show only changed.> to show only the changed paragraphs.

• Click an edit entry such as “6Content Change” to show the revisions of that paragraph in the left pane.

  • You can compare paragraph revisions.

Chapter Revisions

Viewing and Restoring Chapter Revisions

Click the <1Revision> button in the left sidebar of the editor to check the chapter revisions. You can also select a chapter from the <View Revision> menu on the document details screen to view its revisions.

Click the <1Revision> button to display a list grouped by 2time. Click a 2time to show the revisions in that time period, sorted from most recent to oldest. The revision list shows the edit type, the time of the change, and the user who made the change.

In the chapter revision list, click <3View> to show the chapter as it was at that point in time on the right, as shown in the following image. Click the 4Restore button to restore the chapter to that revision.

Comparing Chapter Revisions

You can compare chapter revisions in the current window without opening a new one. All paragraphs of the chapter are displayed, but you can also view 1only the changed paragraphs. Each changed paragraph shows its “edit type,” so you can see not only changes to paragraph content but also added, deleted, and moved paragraphs.

You can also bring in a chapter from another document on the revision screen and compare its revisions without going to that document. Click the <2Choose a chapter.> link to display a list of documents. Select a chapter to compare its revisions.

Follow these steps to compare chapter revisions.

1. In the chapter revision list, select two points in time to compare.

   • The current point in time is selected automatically as one of the points to compare.

   • If you select a new point in time after selecting two, the new point is compared with whichever of the two previously selected points was selected first.

2. Click the Compare button to compare the content at the two selected points in time.

Viewing Paragraph Revisions from a Chapter Revision Comparison

You can view paragraph revisions from a chapter revision comparison. In the chapter revision comparison, click the 1icon of an <edit type> such as “Content Change” or “Insert” to show the 2revision list of that paragraph in the left pane. Check the paragraph revisions and select two points in time to compare them.

Click the <3Edit> link to go to the editor for that paragraph.

Timeline

<Timeline> compares chapter revisions by the user who edited them.

• When you select a 1chapter in <Timeline>, the timeline of that chapter is listed in the left pane, grouped by “date” and “user.”

• 2If the same user edited several times on the same date, revisions are compared by “time of change.”

• 3Edit types such as “added” and “changed” are also shown “by user.” The number shown with an edit type is not the number of edits but the number of paragraphs the user added or changed.

• Click the <4Compare Revisions> link to compare the entire revision along with the edit history of the user at that point in time.

  • In the revision comparison on the right, click <Show only changed.> to show only the paragraphs the user changed.

  • Click an “edit type” such as “Content Change” to show the revisions of that paragraph in the left pane.

The timeline is displayed by paragraph. Note the following.

• Changes to an added paragraph are shown only as an addition.

• Changes to a restored paragraph are shown only as a restoration.

• Deletion of an added paragraph is not shown.

• Deletion of a restored paragraph is not shown.

• Deletion of a changed paragraph is shown only as a deletion.

• Deleting and then restoring an added paragraph is shown only as an addition.

• Deleting and then restoring a changed paragraph is shown only as a change.

Paragraph Revisions

Viewing and Restoring Paragraph Revisions

Click the <1Revision> icon at the lower right of a paragraph to check its revisions.

Click the <1Revision> icon to display a list grouped by time. Click a 2time to show the revisions in that time period, sorted from most recent to oldest. The revision list shows the edit type, the time of the change, and the user who made the change.

In the paragraph revision list, click <3View> to open the “Revision Viewer” window, as shown in the following image, where you can check the revision at that point in time. To restore the revision, click the 4Restore button in the “Revision Viewer” window.

Comparing Paragraph Revisions

You can compare revisions from any points in time. The changes are highlighted so that you can easily spot them on one screen. Inserted and deleted parts are marked along word and sentence boundaries.

The items compared depend on the paragraph type.

• Text paragraph-type, content, options

• Image paragraph-title, options

• Table paragraph-title, options, content

• Object paragraph-details, options

Follow these steps to compare paragraph revisions.

1. In the paragraph revision list, select two points in time to compare.

   • The current point in time is selected automatically as one of the points to compare.

   • If you select a new point in time after selecting two, the new point is compared with whichever of the two previously selected points was selected first.

2. Click the Compare button to compare the content at the two selected points in time.

Restoring Deleted Paragraphs

You can restore paragraphs that were deleted while editing a chapter in the editor. Follow these steps to restore deleted paragraphs.

1. In the editor menu, click <1Deleted Elements>.

2. In the list of deleted paragraphs, click “2View” for the paragraph you want to restore to check its content.

3. Click “3Restore” to restore the deleted paragraph.

   • If a paragraph is selected in the editor, the deleted paragraph is restored after the selected paragraph; otherwise, it is restored at the bottom.

   • A restored paragraph keeps the ID it had before it was deleted, so links that pointed to the paragraph work again. The restored paragraph is removed from the deleted paragraph list.