Send a file for review
Choose Send for review on the item, then name the reviewers and what you expect of each. The review exists only once a reviewer is named.
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Open the file, choose Send for review from its actions, then name the reviewers in Invite reviewers and choose Add reviewers. Naming a reviewer is what creates the review: closing the picker without one leaves the file in Draft.
Send it
- Open the file.
- Choose Send for review. On a draft, the status panel offers Submit for review for the same thing.
- In Invite reviewers, search the field prompting Invite people, groups, or collaborations. It matches people, workgroups and collaborations.
- Set Expectation for the reviewers you are adding: Decision, Review or Make changes. Decision is the default.
- Choose Add reviewers. It reads Sending while it saves.
The file's status becomes Pending review, and the item appears in each reviewer's My tasks.
Reviewers must already be able to read the file
A reviewer who cannot open the file cannot review it. When that happens the dialog refuses the assignment and says so: share the item with them first, then assign. Use Share on the file, or add them to the managed folder holding it. See Invite people to a managed folder.
Manage reviewers afterwards
The item's Reviewers panel lists everyone assigned, grouped as Approved, Change request, Rejected and Pending, with a count of how many of the assigned people have approved. Add reviewers adds more; the remove control beside a name drops one. A group with nobody in a given state reads Nobody in this state.
An item with nobody assigned reads No reviewers assigned., and decisions on it are refused until you assign someone.
After a decision
- Approved means every required reviewer approved. The status panel names who.
- Changes requested returns the work to you. Upload a corrected version with Upload new version, which appears under Versions on the status panel.
- Rejected closes the review. Send the item for review again to reopen the question.
If it did not work
- Couldn't assign these reviewers. means nothing was saved. Try again.
- Add reviewers stays disabled until at least one recipient is chosen.
- A reviewer who cannot see the item in My tasks was probably added to a group rather than named. Check the Reviewers panel.
- To record your own decision on someone else's file, see Review a file someone sent you.
Related pages
- Review a file someone sent you — My tasks lists what is waiting on you. Open the item, then choose Approve, Request changes, Send back to author or Reject from its actions.
- Publish an item from a managed folder — Publish is an action on an item inside a managed folder. Published items appear under Published by me, and Unpublish reverses it.
- Invite people to a managed folder — Open the folder, choose Invite, pick people, workgroups or collaborations, set Can view or Can edit, choose Share, then choose Done to save.