Move pages with track changes

[Pickory]

Hello,

When we move a page from one document to another the track changes on the moved page are lost. Is there a way to keep them.

Thanks.

P.

[Eugene Tyson]

I don't see a way for this to happen. As the 'track changes' only tracks changes made in the document. 

You can test this by closing all documents and go to Type>Track Changes and turn it on. 

Then open your document - and your new document.

Move the pages to the new document

Track changes for that document now include the whole text as a tracked change. 

Perhaps it can be scripted @m1b  or @rob day might know.

[m1b]

Hmm. This is new to me, but there might be a way! Are you moving the page using a script? Changes belong to Stories, so you could try moving the story. I'll do a quick test in a bit and edit this post. - Mark

[Pickory]

Thank you.

Currently it is through the UI. CC 2021.

P.

[Pickory]

a video

https://kerntiff.com/Track%20Changes/lost%20track%20changes.mov

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

Mark

This might help - I just dragged the story to the desktop to create a Snippett

And I dragged that into a new document.

The Track Changes remained! 

[Pickory]

That's clever.

Thanks.

[m1b]

@Pickory, does that solve your problem?

@Eugene Tyson, were you able to export the story? Or just the part of the story that is contained in a text frame?

- Mark

[Eugene Tyson]

It just gives one text frame, unfortunately. 

[m1b]

Well that might not matter, because unless the frames are linked on the same page, moving the page will break any links anyway.

[m1b]

Great idea! I was wondering about that possibility.