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How to Use Flight Mode with the OLC
Who is this article for?Please Review Users using the offline client.
Reviewerscan download reviews while offline.
Enabling flight mode within the offline client of Please Review allows users to work on reviews without an internet connection, ensuring productivity during travel or in areas with limited connectivity. Flight mode maintains the application's functionality, enabling reviewers to make comments, annotations, and edits offline, which will later synchronise once a stable internet connection is restored.
- Flight Mode
- Downloading Reviews for Flight Mode
- Reviewing in Flight Mode
- Uploading Comments Back to Please Review
- Further Reading
Flight Mode
- Flight Mode is an alternative offline review option to the Offline Client, designed specifically for use on tablets and Apple Mac but can also be used on a PC.
- It allows participants to access reviews of Microsoft Word documents only, where they can make comments and propose changes whilst offline. The comments can then be uploaded to the review when back online.
- Flight Mode uses HTML5 and therefore is not compatible with older browsers.
Downloading Reviews for Flight Mode
Before using Flight Mode for the first time, it is necessary to bookmark the Flight Mode page so that it can be accessed offline.
- To download documents to review offline, click the ‘Flight Mode’ link on the Please Review homepage. The Flight Mode screen will be displayed listing all reviews available for you to download. Select the reviews then click ‘Download’:
As Flight Mode supports Microsoft Word documents only, reviews which do not contain any Word documents will not be listed as available for download. Reviews containing mixed document formats including at least one Word document will be listed but only the Word document(s) can be downloaded.
Reviewing in Flight Mode
Once offline, the Flight Mode screen, which you have bookmarked, will display your downloaded reviews:
Important: You must NOT clear your browser cache whilst using Flight Mode as it will delete all documents and comments made offline.
Entering a Review
- To enter a review, click the ‘Enter’ link for the relevant review. The review interface will open in a new browser window.
- All comments and proposed changes on the review at the time of download will be displayed, and you can make new comments and proposed changes in the usual way.
Uploading Comments Back to Please Review
When you are back online you can upload your comments and proposed changes made whilst offline:
- Select the review(s) to upload Number of comments waiting to be uploaded
- There are two upload options available:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Upload | This will upload the comments and remove the review from the ’offline reviews’ list. |
| Upload and keep | This will upload the comments and keep the review in the ’offline reviews’ list. |
- Once you have clicked your upload option for the comments will be uploaded. This may take some time depending on the size of the documents in the review and the speed of your network connection.
- There is also the option to delete any downloaded reviews by selecting them using the checkbox to the right of the review, then click ‘Delete’.
Note: Downloaded reviews will not be automatically updated. If you wish to see the latest version of the review, you must click 'refresh content' at the top of the screen.