Hi Framers,

 

Short version:

Does anyone know of a way to track new changes separately from existing change bars in a Frame document?

Long version:

We have a situation where we need to track multiple in-house revisions of a manual separately.  We started from a customer’s existing documentation and are charging them per changed page, based on whether the page has major or minor changes.  BUT, we deliver a preliminary release partway through writing, so that the customer can get their project certified.  At this point, change bars let our QC department know what parts of the document to check.  Before releasing to the customer, these change bars are cleared, so that it’s a clean copy for the customer AND so that when the Rev. A comes through the QC department, they only have to check the Rev. A changes.

We can save a copy at initial release, clear the change bars on that copy, and send the clean copy to the customer, then continue making changes in the original files, and that would consolidate all the change bars in one file.  But then QC doesn’t know which changes they have already checked at the initial release and which are new to the Rev. A.

Problem:

We are billing based on the TOTAL changes made from the customer’s original, both in our initial release and in our Rev. A, but for QC purposes we need to visually separate the change bars made at initial release from those made in subsequent revisions.  Does anyone know of a way to visually separate different iterations of change bars like this?  Or have ideas of a different way to get the same effect?

Thanks,

Seonaid

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