Team members can request that you Participate in a review of artifacts. The initiator of
the review can designate you as an approver, reviewer, or optional reviewer. Optional reviewers have
the full review capability, but their progress does not affect the status of the review.
Procedure
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Click the name of a review on the Reviews page or in the Reviews widget on your
dashboard.
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In the Participant’s Review window, select a check box for an artifact and use the adjacent
push buttons and menus to select one of the following options. The available options depend on your
role in the review (approver, reviewer, or optional reviewer).
- Approve.
- Disapprove.
- Reviewed.
- Approve with Comments. Enter your comments in the window and click
Approve.
- Reviewed with Comments. Enter your comments in the window and click
Reviewed.
- Disapprove.
- Disapprove with Comments. Enter your comments in the Disapprove
Artifact window and click Disapprove.
- Abstain.
- Abstain with Comments. Enter your comments in the Abstain from
Reviewing Artifact window and click Abstain.
Note: If you print an artifact in a review and include comments, the report prints only comments
that are specific to the review.
- Optional:
To set a page size to view a specific number of artifacts on the page, click the
More Actions icon. You can also sort or resize the columns on the
Participant's Review and Overall Review pages of a review. The changes that you make are preserved
across sessions so that the next time you start your browser and open a review, the same sort
column, column widths, and page size are displayed.
- Optional:
To reset the page size, reset columns to their default widths, and remove any sort columns,
click the More Actions icon and then click Reset to
Default. If an artifact table is sorted, click the More Actions
icon and then click Clear Sorting.
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After you review all artifacts, click Done. After you click
Done, you cannot change your review decisions; however, the review owner can
reopen the review.
Results
The overall review status indicates the following:
- Approved: when at least one approver has approved and no approver has abstained.
- Disapproved: when at least one approver has disapproved.
- Reviewed: when there are no approvers and all reviewers have reviewed.
- Approved: but with abstentions when at least one approver has approved and at least one approver
has abstained.
- Reviewed: but with abstentions when there are no approvers and at least one reviewer has
abstained.
- Not approved: when there's at least one approver, but no approver has approved.
