Going through the review list

In the context of your workflow, topics are waiting for the inspection of appointed reviewers. Collaborative Review presents to you the topics awaiting your review, lets you easily access the content and lets you send it to the next step when your review is complete.

Before you begin

For the Review summary to appear, along with the associated user interface controls and the properties tab, an administrator needs to set the workflow.review.enabled configuration option to yes.

About this task

The Review summary displayed on the Landing page for each publication lists the topics:
  • That have a status that matches the configured value for inclusion in the list: usually the status that stands for "to be reviewed" content (the label of all status can be customized).
  • That are assigned to the logged in user as reviewer. It can also be assigned to a group the user belongs to.

Procedure

  1. In Collaborative Review, open your publication landing page. The Review summary appears.
  2. From the list of topics, select the title of the topic you wish to review. The topic is displayed.
  3. Review:
    • You can add comments by using the commenting feature from the right-hand pane (Comments tab).
    • You can edit the content by using the Edit button from the main pane menu.
    • You can update properties from the right-hand pane Properties tab.
  4. When your review is complete, use the Review completed button from the main pane menu. The status of the topic changes to the "Released" type value that is configured according to your workflow.
  5. Use the Previous or Next button from the main page menu to browse through the list of topics to review.