Technical Reviews
Technical review commenting or editing (depending on your permissions) can be done by SMEs or other reviewers from the SDL LiveContent Architect web client.
Commenting and editing can be done from the web client, or (if using) SDL LiveContent Reach. When commenting or editing from SDL LiveContent Reach, comments and edits are written to the topics in SDL LiveContent Architect. If edited, the topic is automatically published to SDL LiveContent Reach with the modifications.
- Commenting overview
In SDL LiveContent, a comment is an annotation added to a topic. Reviewers can add comments to communicate errors, updates, enhancements, suggestions, and other useful information about the topic to content authors. - Exploring the comments pane
The Comments pane lets you add, reply to, or delete comments. You access this pane from an open topic accessed from the Review and Collaboration landing page. You can also access the Comments pane from Publication Manager. - Adding a comment (topic view)
You can add a comment to a topic to communicate information about that topic to the content author. - Replying to a comment (topic view)
A comment is comprised of the original comment and feedback from users who reply to the comment. Comment replies appear subordinate to the original comment, ordered from the oldest (at the top) to the newest (at the bottom). - Deleting a comment (topic view)
You can delete one or more comments from a topic. - Changing the status of a comment (topic view)
You can change the status of a comment from within the topic or from the comment table. - Comments (tabular view)
Comments provides a tabular view for interacting with comments created in a topic. - Exploring comments (tabular view)
Comments in tabular view consists of a header, a ribbon, and a tabular view for interacting with comments created in topics. - Filtering comments (tabular view)
In the tabular view, comment filtering for the Author, Publication, Status and Modified columns let you lower the number of comments shown. - Changing the status of comments (tabular view)
Comments (tabular view) lets you change status on one or more comments. - Deleting comments (tabular view)
Comments (Tabular View) lets you delete comments from the comments table. - Deleting all comments from a publication
When you delete a publication, you have the option of removing all comments associated with that publication or keeping the comments so they are available if you re-publish that publication. - Understanding detached comments
Comments can become detached from the original text (or graphic) if content changes or the publication version is updated in Content Explorer. - Viewing detached comments (tabular view)
A detached comment might be the result of a removed topic (which is no longer visible in the topic display on the Review and Collaboration landing page). The only way to view and process that comment is to use the tabular view (Comments). - Detached comment scenarios
In the following table, topic view refers to comments that appear in the topic, and tabular view refers to comments that appear in the Comments (tabular view) page. - Detached comments and deleted comments
Detached comments are different from deleted comments. - Customizing comments
An application developer can customize commenting behavior and appearance. - Editing the resource you are viewing
You can edit a published topic or map from the Review and Collaboration landing page during the review period. The review period is specified for the publication in the Content Explorer web client. Modifications are reflected in the repository. - Editing a resource from the repository
You can edit a published topic or map directly from the Content Explorer web client during the review period. The review period is specified for the publication in the Content Explorer web client. - Defining the publication review period
A publication can be edited only during the review period. The review period is specified for the publication in the Content Explorer web client.