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title: Harvest Change Tracking Workflow
description: How to enable Harvest Change Tracking and leverage AVAIL's Difference Engine.
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# Harvest Change Tracking Workflow

## How to enable Harvest Change Tracking and leverage AVAIL's Difference Engine.

### **Overview**

It is important during the Preview Release to avoid impact on your production container files and AVAIL production channels.

AVAIL recommends the following workflow:

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### **Open your Managed Container File**

After opening the container file. Open Harvest to update your go to Harvest Settings.

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### **Configure Your Harvest Settings**

Do the following setup:

1. Configure your Harvest Settings:
   
     1. **Enable Harvest tracking** under the Output tab.
     2. Customize which Elements you want visible in Harvest under the Elements tab.
     3. Enable the Related Content settings under the Export Options tab.
2. Remember to **Save Settings**.

![](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jun-22-2026-07-32-02-0226-PM.png?width=500&height=680&name=image-png-Jun-22-2026-07-32-02-0226-PM.png)

Harvest will **begin processing the elements** in the Container File in order to identify which elements have been Harvested in the past and which have been not yet been published. 

**Please advise:** Additional processing time will be needed the first time you enable Harvest tracking on your Container file.

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### **Running Harvest and Marking items as 'Ready to Publish'**

Once you have enabled Harvest Tracking on your container file you can build your **Harvest queue** to publish any *Not Published* elements to your AVAIL library. 

**Click Publish** to run Harvest.

![Publish](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Publish.png?width=462&height=895&name=Publish.png)

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### **Using AVAIL's Difference Engine and Marking a View as 'Ready to Publish'**

1. **Open** one of the published Drafting Views.
2. **Double-click** it in the Harvest panel to open it.
3. **Make some graphical changes** to the Drafting View.
4. Do a **File\>Save** in Revit.
5. **Click "View Activity"** to see the ***Difference Engine notes*** reported in the Harvest panel.
6. **Right-click** on the Drafting View in Harvest and select "**Mark as ready**."

![modified](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/modified.png?width=670&height=367&name=modified.png)

![Mark as Ready](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Mark%20as%20Ready.png?width=485&height=216&name=Mark%20as%20Ready.png)

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### **Final Steps: Publish a View that’s marked “Ready to Publish”**

1. **Open the Harvest tab** in AVAIL for Revit, find the Elements marked as *Ready to Publish*.
2. **Select the green checkbox** to send the Drafting View(s) to the Harvest Queue.
3. **Click Publish** to run Harvest.

**![ReadytoPublish](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ReadytoPublish.png?width=462&height=760&name=ReadytoPublish.png)**

Learn about **AVAIL's Content Submission** workflow in this [**article**](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/content-submission?hsLang=en). 

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