Impose Custom Options for Authors

Question

How to enable Track Changes at startup?

Answer

There are two ways to enable Track Changes for every document that you open:

You could customise the default options which are used by your authors and set the Track Changes Initial State option to Always On.

Use the API to toggle the Track Changes state after a document is opened in Author mode:

// Check the current state of Track Changes 
boolean trackChangesOn = authorAccess.getReviewController().isTrackingChanges();
if (!trackChangesOn) {
  // Set Track Changes state to On
  authorAccess.getReviewController().toggleTrackChanges();
}