Introduction
When there is more than one drafter editing a document at the same time, it can be useful to refresh your document to see what changes others have made.
How to refresh a document
- To refresh your document when another user has saved changes to it whilst you have it open:
- Click on the
Refresh button in the upper tool bar - Click on ‘Document > Refresh Document’ in the upper toolbar, or
- Use keyboard short cut Alt + r
- Click on the
- The system will update the version of the document in the Editor with any changes saved by other users since you last saved.
- Once complete, the system will display a success message.
Hints and tips
- The refresh button is only enabled when another user has saved changes to the document since you had it open for edit.
- You do not need to have made any changes to the document for the ‘refresh’ button to work.
- If you did make unsaved changes to the document, clicking on ‘refresh’ will not lose any changes you have made so you can continue editing after the refresh.
- If you refresh your document using the browser refresh button (or F5) then this will load the last auto-save version you have saved without the recent changes saved by other users. If you have no auto-save version, it will load the last saved version on the server so at most you will lose is 2 minutes editing. If you attempted to edit a portion of the document recently updated (and saved) by another user, Lawmaker will let you know that you are about to edit an out of date version and will offer you the chance to refresh the document version to bring it up to date with the last saved changes.