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How to Configure Zones and User Settings in the OLC
Who is this article for?Please Review Users using the offline client.
Reviewerscan download reviews while offline.
Zones in the offline client of Please Review establish distinct workspaces for various projects or document sets, ensuring organized collaboration. Users can seamlessly switch between zones, enabling efficient management of different review tasks and maintaining a clear overview of their offline reviewing activities.
Note: If you download a review which contains edit-in-Word zones, you will not be able to make comments or propose changes on the zones regardless of their status in the review. This is because the zone may have been updated by the time your comments are uploaded.
Zones in the OLC
The OLC will respect zones with review permissions i.e. if the review Owner has assigned you different review permissions for different zones of the document in the review, then the permissions will be respected in the OLC.
Edit-in-Word zones have been set in the review, the information will be visible in the OLC however you will not be able to make comments or propose changes on the zones regardless of their status in the review as the zone may have been updated by the time your comments are uploaded. If you are the Contributor assigned to the zone you will not have any of the Contributor features (i.e. download, upload) available.
Note: It is possible that by the time you are ready to upload comments made in the OLC that the review Owner may have assigned a zone which includes a paragraph where you have commented. In this instance the upload of the comment(s) will fail.
Feedback Documents in the OLC
Feedback documents are supported in the OLC, however, there are a few things to be aware of:
- Any ‘likes’ or ‘dislikes’ made in the OLC will not be synchronised to the online version on upload (note that there will be no warning of this).
- There is no option to re-order bullet points in the OLC.
OLC User Settings
If you amend your user settings from within the OLC, the amended settings will persist for the same review (i.e. you can enter and leave the review or even close and restart the OLC application itself). However, the changes will not apply to other reviews (even if they are from the same server). Therefore, user settings when set in the OLC are specific to each review.
When you re-sync the review, the settings will revert to your online settings.
Log Files
The display log option displays the OLC log file for trouble shooting purposes:
| Icon | Description |
|---|---|
| Save the file as a .log file to a known location. | |
| Delete the log. | |
| Copy the contents to the clipboard for pasting into an email or other location. | |
| Refresh the log. |