Using Collaborative Lifecycle for Reviews

You can use the collaborative lifecycle commands to manage lifecycle and collaboration of the review objects.

For detailed information about these commands, see Collaborative Lifecycle and Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard User's Guides.

This page discusses:

Creating a New Revision

You can create a revision of a review to capture a particular derivation during its lifecycle.

When a new revision of a review is created, the following review entities are also revised:

  • Markups
  • Reply markups
Highlights are created, not revised in the revised reviews.

Note: Reviews are not supported in the New Revision From... command.

Locking and Unlocking

You can lock or unlock reviews and highlights.

In the Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard app, when a review is locked or unlocked the following review entities are also locked or unlocked:

  • Context list
  • Reviewed objects list
  • Participant list
  • Check list

Whereas in the native Collaborative Lifecycle app, you can only lock or unlock reviews and highlights.

In the Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard app, you can also lock or unlock highlights separately.

Managing Rights and Ownerships

You can transfer ownership of a review to a user and manage access rights of users.

When a review's ownership is transferred or its access rights are modified, the ownership of the following review entities also gets transferred or their access rights are modified:

  • Markups
  • Reply markups
  • Highlights
  • Contexts
  • Reviewed objects
  • Participants list
  • Checks
In the Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard app, you can also transfer the ownership of a highlight separately.

You can also modify the access rights of a highlight separately.

Changing Maturity

You can define the maturity status of a review as it evolves throughout its lifecycle.

When a review's maturity is changed, the maturity of the following review entities also gets changed:

  • Markups
  • Reply markups

You cannot change the maturity of a highlight.

Duplicating Reviews

You can create new review from an existing review using the Duplicate and Advanced Duplicate commands.

The Duplicate Advanced command provides extra options that give you greater control over the resulting duplicated structure.

When you duplicate a review, the following review entities are also duplicated:

  • Markups
  • Reply markups
  • Highlights

You cannot duplicate a highlight separately.

Deleting a Review

You can delete a review using the Delete command.

When you delete a review, the following review entities are also deleted:

  • Markups
  • Reply markups
  • Highlights
  • Contexts
  • Reviewed objects
  • Participants list
  • Checks
You can delete a highlight in the Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard app, but not in the native Collaborative Lifecycle app.