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This article guides IT Administrators in configuring Draftable Legal to remove any unwanted Comparison Types and / or to change the default Comparison Type from ‘Redline in Draftable’ To learn more about Comparison Types and their use, please see this article.

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How to update the initial default Comparison Type

Administrators can use the InitialComparisonOutput registry key to set an initial Comparison Type default.
The default options are: Once set, this will set the selected Comparison Type as the default choice in the New Comparison Window upon starting Draftable. If the user selects a different Comparison Type, this will be ‘sticky’ and remains selected until the user either changes it again or closes the application.

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Removing unwanted Comparison Types

Many organizations exclusively use either Tracked Changes or Redline in Word as their preferred word output. Likewise, organizations will often have a preference for either Redline in Excel, Side by Side or MS Office Native for Excel comparisons. With this in mind, organizations can configure Draftable Legal to only provide those Comparison Types and outputs needed by their users. This can be done via Group Policy or in the Windows Registry.

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Removing Comparison Type and Output options via Group Policy

Administrators can update the default value of the following Group Policy Options to remove Comparison Types from the New Comparison Window, Next Actions menu, and 1-Click Compare menu.

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Removing Comparison Type options via the Windows Registry

The following registry values can be configured to exclude Comparison Types and outputs from the New Comparison Window, Next Actions menu, and 1-Click Compare menu. Each value is a REG_DWORD under the following registry path: