[David Cutler]

Great question @Chad Czerwinski !

What I’ve done in the past is to work paragraph by paragraph to see what has changed.

1. With both PDF documents open side by side use the Revu “Snapshot” tool to capture the text from the new document.

2. Paste the snapshot onto the original document

3. Use “change color” to make the snapshot of new text green

4. Position the snapshot over the paragraph and see what has changed

You can vary your snapshots based on how consistent the pages are, but this gives you options if paragraphs have been moved across page breaks.

This doesn’t work quite as well as the drawing compare, but it will get the job done. 🙂

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[David Cutler]

A couple of follow up questions @Doug McLean

Can the user print text boxes that others created without issues?

Are they only having problems with 1 file, or is it every file that they open?

Is this happening with every markup or just text boxes?

If someone else opens the file on another machine are they able to print successfully?

I don’t necessarily have any suggestions based on your responses, but might spark an answer in someone else… 🤣

[David Cutler]

What is this “printing” thing that you ask about? I’ve heard of some old process where people put images on paper, but that was like back in the 90’s. 🤣

I can’t say I’ve had that issue – but I’m also running Revu 21 at this point.

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @jwafflecanyoncontracting-net !

Adding a custom column to track % complete for a given markup shouldn’t be a problem. In theory you could also add a total value column and then write a formula in a 3rd column to calculate an earned value.

As far as a group of walls you should be able create a summary of the earned value, but I’m not aware of a method to make a calculation with a summary of data. This doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible, but I haven’t seen it done.

Depending upon what the final output you are looking to produce you may be better off with data collected in Revu and then processed with Power Query in Excel.

@Vince has shared some great processes for tracking progress – including his “50 shades of black” approach. Hopefully he will chime in.

@Doug McLean is our resident Power Query expert. He may have some ideas to share too.

[David Cutler]

I haven’t made the jump to 21.4 yet. Trying to stay focused on getting stuff done. Curious to see how the cycle through markups works. I know the “Hide Single Markups” is a very handy upgrade.

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the tips @Doug McLean ! I figured it would be something simple – it usually is. Classic user error. 🤣

[David Cutler]

Thank you @Doug McLean !

One of my goals for 2025 is to figure this out! Thank you for getting me setup to succeed on this!😀

[David Cutler]

I also use the “hold down scroll wheel to pan” built in function regularly so I need to be careful not to knock the wheel into undo/redo mode by accident. Guess I might need to do some finger exercises to build up the stability of my scroll wheel finger so I don’t “knock” when I pan.🤣

[David Cutler]

I set up the same yesterday afternoon @Vince ! Great minds think alike. 🙂

The undo/redo on the wheel is going to take some getting used to. Might have to try to build a macro with a few pauses into the string as when I “wheel left” it seems to repeat the undo multiple times…

[David Cutler]

I did add “save” after I made my post. I like the undo & redo ideas. 🙂

[David Cutler]

I forgot to ask if they tried closing all the windows, restarting their machine, and then re-launching Revu? 🤣

What’s funny, or perhaps not funny, is that sometimes I find restarting my computer clears glitches like these up…

[David Cutler]

I think that I figured out my problem with being able to re-use my Power Query @Doug McLean !

The problem I found wasn’t in the “source” information (the information you provided previously on how to change the source location helped me with this). The problem was that I was deleting the output data table from my file! So basically I was successfully telling PQ where to find the data and what to do with it, but I had taken away the place that the query was setup to place the processed data. I had assumed that PQ would generate a new tab in the workbook when I selected “Close & Load” – since that is what it does when you first setup the Query.

So I now have a template file that includes the Power Query (with the output sheet) ready to go! Very excited to use this in the New Year!

Now, to work through the information you provided above to automate the process further… 😎

[David Cutler]

We may very well do that @Doug McLean – but we aren’t even at the point of having Revu available on their devices.

Curious to hear how folks are providing the interface for the folks in the field.

[David Cutler]

And yet again you I’ve found out about a feature that I didn’t know I didn’t know about. Not sure how I’d apply it yet, but something to file away in the back of my mind for future applications…

🙂

[David Cutler]

“Places” @troy-degroot ?

Are you referring to a location on a drawing, or is this a feature of Revu that I don’t know about????