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Please Review Users accepting and closing review comments.

Review Authors can accept and close comments and proposed changes.

The ‘Accept’ icon and ‘Close’ icon on the Please Review toolbar can be used to quickly accept/close comments and proposed changes and move to the next open comment or change in the review.

1. Accepting and Closing Using the Toolbar
2. Accepting and Closing Using the Actions Menu
3. Further Reading

Accepting and Closing Using the Toolbar

The Author/Owner should first set their preference to prompt for a reason or not prompt for a reason using the filter options available from the icons:

• Selecting the ‘Accept with reason and move to next’ will allow the Author/Owner to accept a comment or change, enter a reason and then move to the next open comment or change in the review.
• Selecting the ‘Accept without reason and move to next’ will provide a ‘one-click’ action for accepting comments and proposed changes, allowing the Author/Owner to accept a comment or change without giving a reason and move to the next open comment/change in the review.
• It is possible to change the ‘prompt for a reason’ preferences as required, and therefore the Author/Owner can alternate between settings if appropriate.
• The ‘Accept all’ option will allow the Author/Owner to accept all open comments and changes at once. See Accept/Close All.
• The settings for ‘Close’ work in the same way as described above.

Once the preference has been set, the Author/Owner can simply click either the ‘Accept’ icon or ‘Close’ icon on the toolbar for each comment/change in the review. As soon as a comment or proposed changed has been accepted/closed, Please Review will automatically jump to the next open comment/change in the review. This allows the Author/Owner to move quickly through all open comments and proposed changes in the review, based on their filter settings.

Accepting and Closing Using the Actions Menu

The actions menu displayed on each open comment or proposed change can be used to accept/close comments and proposed changes, either with or without giving a reason.

The actions menu is a drop-down menu which can be seen in the top right corner when the Author/Owner hovers over or selects a comment or proposed change in the review pane:

Irrespective of the ‘Give Reason’ setting (see Review User Settings), the Author/Owner can choose whether to accept/close the comment/change either with or without giving a reason.

• If ‘Accept’ or ‘Close’ is selected, the Author/Owner can accept/close with one click.
• If ‘Accept with reason’ or ‘Close with reason’ is selected, the Author/Owner will be prompted to select a reason and can leave additional notes.
• The behaviour of the ‘Give Reason’ dialog box is the same as described above (see Accepting and Closing Using the Quick Accept/Close Icons).

Further Reading

• How to Accept and Close Comments