Hey,

Thanks very much for ideas you mentioned. All really great ideas.

We have something like that in our backlog. These usecases and solutions that you proposed will definitely help us design at the time of implementation.

Meanwhile you might want to give following a try:

     1) You have a script shared with your partner.

     2) You made some changes and than your partner made some more changes in the script.

     3) Now open your script and click 'view -> History' menuitem.

     4) You should see various versions of your script. There you will see a version in the name of your partner and just before that one with your name on it.

     5) When you hover any of them you will see a compare button, which essentially compares that version with the currently opened version. When you click on it, both the versions will be loaded side by side in a compare view.

     6) So if you compare your's with your partner's than you will notice that in the outline view (the view which contains just the scene headings) will have start '*' icon on some the scenes. Those are the scenes in which you partner made changes. You can use scroll-lock button to see those scenes side by side in both scripts.

Note: You might find this tutorial useful (http://blogs.adobe.com/preran/2010/11/video-tutorial-versioning-docume nts-in-adobe-story.html)

Best regards

ratnesh

Hey,

      Something more that would help you keep track what the co-users have changed in the script is "Track Changes".

• You can turn this on through "Review" menu -> Start tracking changes. Only author of the script can turn it on.
• Going forward all changes: additions, deletions and formatting changes would be tracked and would show up with mark up and you can decide to accept or reject any of them. On mouse hover you get the information regarding who made the change, when and the type of change
• You can also allow the co-author to take action upon these: Review-> Co-authors can commit changes
• You can also filter changes according to your choice of co-author (Changes by) or element type (in element). Enable "Track Changes tool bar" from the "View" menu and here you can find options to filter changes.
• You can also set color preferences on basis of type of change and who the collaborator is through the "Track changes" preferences in the "Preferences" you can see in the top tab adjacent to "Help". It can also be accessed through Review-> Preferences.. in Authoring view or "Set Preferences.." in the "Changes by" drop down in Track Changes toolbar.

For further information on track changes kindly visit the help file (Using Adobe Story -> Sharing, commenting and collaboration->Track Changes while you edit).

For any further queries please do get back to us. Hope you find this useful.

And regarding your question of Story coming out of beta..there are many high priority items we would like to cater to before we get to 1.0.

Regards,

Adobe Story Team