Can Other People See My Changes?

By default, all Near-Time spaces are private, meaning that they are viewable and changeable only by you and your fellow space members. Members of your private Near-Time space can see the changes you make in your space in  a variety of ways.  Changes made to public spaces or content will be immediately available to the audience of the World Wide Web.

Recent Activities:

Any changes made in a space will be visible to others in "Overview tab" under 'Recent Activities'. Recent activities offers you and others in your space a chronlogical breakdown of any changes made to a space be they: comments, new pages, new news articles, new files, new events on the calendar, and more. 

Blue Star Notification: 

Changes to a space will also show as a blue star in the grey menu across the top of your spaces next to the space in which the change was made. The person who made the change will not see a blue star next to the space, but others will when they log in next. For example, if I create a new wiki page when fellow space members login next, they notice a blue star in the grey strip bar menu denoting that there is new content since they last logged in. Upon mousing over the star, they will see listed what is new; it will thus notify them that there is a new page in the space.

Dashboard: 

A third method Near-Time offers you to keep abreast of what is new is suited best to viewing changes across multiple spaces. This is the Dashboard feature. To view the Dashboard, simply click 'Dashboard' in the upper left portion of the grey strip bar menu. Here you will see a breakdown of what is new across all your spaces in a very easy to digest format.

Changes to Pages: 

Changes made to Pages in Near-Time are particularly important. As a wiki, pages in Near-Time offer you and your space members the ability to edit and draft away. However, you will want to be able to see what changes have been made between drafts at some point. Near-Time offers you the ability to view every version of a wiki page from its creation to its latest version, and you can even revert back to older versions of the wiki page if wish. To view the draft revision tools:

1. Select a page which has been edited more than once (as new pages have only one draft, and no changes to be shown as none have been made).
   
2. Click on the "Show Changes" button, near the top of the page. You will now have the ability to compare any two versions of the page, and via the color-coded highlighting you will be able to see what was added or deleted.
   
3. To change which versions of the page you are comparing, simply use the 'History' menu you have available to you at the right side of the screen in the sidebar menu. 

Pages are thus a very powerful editing, composition, and publishing tool. Everybody in the space sees one version of the page, which eliminates the troubles associated with traditional methods of drafting ideas such as e-mails (where often times people have different versions of the same document to exchange with each other). However, while everybody sees the same version of the page, everybody has access to every version the wiki has gone through to that point, as well as the drafting tools just discussed. In short, feel free to be creative, and get outside the box with Near-Time pages; all the versions the page goes through in the development process are always available, and you can always see very quickly just what changes the document has gone through!