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ScreenplayMake a change to a locked draft with a revision
Start a coloured revision so you can change a locked script without touching the locked pages.
Before you start
- A draft is locked as the Shooting Draft.
Steps
Click in the locked script and start typing.
Nothing is changed. The banner already told you that typing offers to start a revision.
Read This is your locked shooting draft. Create a revision? and click Start Revision.
The dialog says you started typing in the locked draft, that your edits will go into a new revision, and that the locked draft stays exactly as it is. It adds that nothing has been changed yet. Cancel closes it.
In the Start Revision dialog, set the Label *, the Colour, the Revision date and an optional Reason.
The dialog is based on the locked draft. Label * starts as Revision A. Colour offers Blue, Pink, Yellow, Green and Custom…. The Revision date starts as today and is printed where the title page and header ask for the date. The colour is metadata and export styling only; it is separate from your personal card colours.
Click Pink and type a Reason, for example Dog added to the opening, rooftop radio line.
The picture shows Pink chosen and the reason filled in.
To use your own colour, click Custom… and type a colour code in Custom colour.
A Custom colour box appears, for example #3b6fd4.
Click Start Revision.
The draft picker now shows Revision A and the chip shows Revision A · Pink. You write in the revision and the locked draft never changes. The Revisions button stays in the toolbar.
What you get
You are writing in a new revision and the locked Shooting Draft is untouched.
Watch out for
- Label * is required. Start Revision needs a label.
- Your changes go into the revision only. They never reach the locked pages.