Re: Review tools

Subject: Re: Review tools
From: sharipunyon -at- gmail -dot- com
To: "Wright, Lynne" <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- Kronos -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:01:30 -0400

Can you let the reviewers make changes, and use the page history if you want to see what they did. Or is that going to be a mess where you work? Iâve been in both kinds of environments.

> On Jun 26, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Wright, Lynne <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- Kronos -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I've tried using Confluence for reviews, but ran into the following limitations:
>
> - Unless I'm missing something, you can only see reviewers' in-line comments when the page is in view mode; when you switch to edit mode to actually make the changes, you can't see the in-line comments anymore. So I either had to take a screen shot of the comments, or compare page versions to see what changed, and/or refer to a series of notification emails to try to figure out what changed. Is there really no way to see people's comments on the page while in edit mode?
>
> - The page output to pdf is problematic. I tried using the Scroll Office for pdf plugin as a conversion tool, but there were so many glitches in the conversion (especially with tables) that it was less labour-intensive to just copy and paste content from the confluence page into a word document, then make a pdf. Which is also crazy.
>
> Can anyone suggest solutions to these issues?
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Review tools
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> PDFs on a network drive are pretty nice when they work, but most networks I've tried it on, they didn't.
>
> Confluence handles simultaneous edits pretty elegantly. The inline comments work well if you can get your reviewers to use them.
>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Rick Lippincott <rjl6955 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> PDFs on a network drive, accessible by a menu system. The engineers
>> as well as the technicians who are building the item add their
>> comments, we check regularly (or sometimes get a notification from the
>> commenter) and can usually do a quick turnaround.
>>
>> Advantage: everyone sees everyone elseâs comments.
>>
>> Disadvantage: one person leaving the PDF open can make it very
>> difficult to update the file.
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References:
Review tools: From: soniaferns2004
Re: Review tools: From: Rick Lippincott
Re: Review tools: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: Review tools: From: Wright, Lynne

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