Comments in five places at once
Some arrive by email, some as stamps in a PDF, some on a call. When the deadline comes, nobody can say which comments are still open or who was meant to answer them.
For design reviewers
Design review comments for reviewers
A reviewer is asked to look at a set of drawings by a date, say what is wrong and, when the work is done, leave an outcome that stays with the revision that was reviewed. This page follows that routine in Fidrel’s review: joining, marking up, commenting, what your approval does and does not do, and what the review leaves behind.
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Why review comments go missing
Feedback on the wrong revision
The review ran on Rev B. By the time the comments are collected, Rev C exists, and half the markups point at lines that have moved.
An approval that changes nothing
A reply that says looks fine sits in an inbox. Whether it altered the status of the sheet, and for which revision, is anybody’s guess.
What the outcome writes to the revision
The person who started the review closes it with an outcome: Approved, Approved with comments or Not approved, and Not approved needs a reason. With the status option ticked, the reviewed revisions get the status Approved or Not approved, so the result belongs to those revisions and not to the sheet in general. If a newer revision arrives meanwhile, the review stays on the one it was started on, and open markups can be moved on to the latest revision, where they are marked as carried.
Reviews, RFIs & issues
What is yours and what is not
Your markups and comments are yours to change. Only the person who created a markup, the person who started the review or a project administrator can delete one. Closing, stopping the review and adding or removing participants belong to the person who started it and to project administrators. When every reviewer has approved, Fidrel tells that person to close the review when ready, and a closing by someone who may not approve documents leaves the status unwritten unless every reviewer has approved.
A review from the reviewer’s chair
Step 1
Open the review you were added to
You get a notification and an email when the review starts and whenever someone comments. If you are not yet a participant, press Join the review to mark up, comment and give a decision. With view-only access to the project you can follow it but not mark up.
Step 2
Mark up the drawing
Pick a tool such as Revision cloud, Arrow, Callout, Polyline or Highlight and draw on the sheet. Cloud and arrow take two points. Write a comment for the markup, and give it an assignee and a due date if somebody has to answer it.
Step 3
Write goals for what must be settled
Choose Action goal for a point that has to be resolved before the review can be approved, and mark it resolved when it is. Plain messages and goals sit in the same list as the markups, numbered so people can refer to them in a meeting.
Step 4
Give your assessment
Press Approve or Request changes. Comments are saved, and approving is a separate decision that is not needed to save or close. Your assessment tells the person who started the review where you stand; it does not close the review.
Step 5
Pull your list when you are done
Filter the markups and goals by Open, Mine, file or assignee, and export the list you are looking at as Excel or PDF, with one row for each markup, its page, text, status, assignee and due date.
What a review does not do
A participant’s approval does not change the status of a sheet; only the closing of the review does. Markups cannot be drawn on Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, so write a comment or a goal in the list, or review a PDF of the file. Approving in a review records a decision under your name and the time; it is not a signature. A drawing that is too large for the device cannot be processed there, and the viewer says so.
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Frequently asked questions
Anything else on your mind? We are happy to help.
Talk to usNo. Your assessment goes to the person who started the review. They close it with an outcome, and only that closing can write a status to the reviewed revisions.
The closing dialog warns how many goals are not solved and asks for Approved with comments or Not approved. Resolve the goals first if the review should be approved without comment.
Fidrel tells you when someone else changed a markup while you were editing it and lets you keep your change or use theirs, so neither edit is lost without you seeing it.
Yes. The review opens in the phone’s browser with the same markup tools, a Save and close button and automatic saving, so a reviewer on site can mark a sheet where the problem is.
The participants of the review, and people with access to the material. Fidrel warns the person who starts a review if somebody cannot see the files, because that person cannot open the review.