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Getting Started Closing and Completing a Review
Who is this article for?Please Review Users closing and completing a review.
Review Authors can close reviews.
Closing a review in Please Review involves ending the period during which reviewers can provide comments or suggestions on a document and transitioning to the stage where the document owner consolidates feedback and makes decisions on proposed changes. A review Owner can close and complete a review using the ‘review closeout’ screen, accessed from the review control panel.
Tip: Want to know more? See How to Close a Review for more information.
Closing and Completing Options
From the review closeout screen, the review Owner has two links available: ‘Close Review’ and ‘Complete Review’:
Closing a Review
Selecting the ‘Close Review’ link will deliver the following action options:
Completing a Review
Selecting the ‘Complete review’ link will deliver the following action options:
Auto-Complete of a Review
- A review may be auto completed if it has been enabled at system configuration level.
- Once enabled, ‘auto complete’ will automatically mark overdue reviews as complete after a specified number of days after the last activity on the review (such as a comment/change, or an accept/close).
- Only overdue reviews are affected by this setting and the time of non-activity is set at system configuration level.
- If a review is auto completed, the review Owner will be notified by email.