When creating a Collaboration review in the Reviews module, initiators select Review, Editorial, and Next states. These options determine the release states Reviews changes objects from or to at each stage of the review.
- Review state: Topics added to the review must be in this state
- Editorial state: Topics move into this state after being reviewed. They must be in this state to enter the Editorial process in Contribute.
- Next state: Topics move to a new state when they have completed the Editorial process. This might move the topics to a new review process or put them into a state identifying them as ready for release.
The following behaviors are applied to the release states used in a review.
The Review state field in the review form displays the release state that the topics in this book must be in before it is reviewed.
- The drop-down provides a list of all the release states (defined with the type "Review") that are not already in use for this book or any of its sub-books.
- A particular book may participate in many simultaneous reviews, but each review must use different release states.
- Once a review starts, the review state can no longer be changed.