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Changing role shouldn't wipe out approval
Changing a role from Observer to Reviewer or Non-Mandatory to Mandatory or vice versa shouldn't necessarily wipe out one's approval. It may be appropriate to reset the approval if the meaning of approval is interpreted differently, according to the role, but sometimes a person might give a thorough and knowledgeable review who had been assigned a lesser role in the review because of their expected unavailability. Then, if they turn out to participate well, it might be appropriate to update their role in the review, without needing to wipe out their approval. Currently, this isn't possible.38Views0likes0CommentsAllow author to see volatility of approvals
In Collaborator, a reviewer can click “Send To Completed” to approve a review – when they do, they can choose what kind of event would remove the approval. - A file upload, or just any activity at all, like a comment. The review Author can see the approval in the participants section, but the author cannot tell whether adding a comment would wipe out the approvals or not. It would be helpful if the author could see how volatile an approval is. Will the approval only be removed if the reviewer is poked? If a file is uploaded? Or if any comment whatsoever is made? Given that approvals can have different levels of volatility, it would be useful for the Author to see that – perhaps as a tooltip over the Approval state in the participants summary area.475Views0likes1Comment'Prev' button should be on the left, 'Next' button should be on the right.
In older versions of Collaborator (such as version 8), the buttons for Prev and Next had words and arrows - Prev had a left pointing arrow, on the left. Next had a right pointing arrow on the right. That made sense. It was intuitive and consistent with other interfaces. In newer versions of Collaborator, the buttons have up and down arrows, but what is most puzzling is that the 'Prev' button is on the right and the 'Next' button is on the left. It is counter-intuitive, and in contrast most GUIs I've seen to have prev on the right and next on the left. Perhaps it should be configurable with localization, if it should be this way for those who read right-to-left. English is left-to-right, and an English installation/configuration of Collaborator should have 'prev' on the left and 'next' on the right.416Views0likes0CommentsRe: Need transparent background on pushpin graphic
The old pins looked like pushpins and were clearly placed by collaborator. the opaque rectangles of the new pins almost appear to be part of the document, and are less clearly part of the pin. The rectangle obscures the pin graphic, making it unrecognizable as a pushpin. having a number is a good idea, but putting a small number on the pushpin graphic like pbauer suggested would be much better than what we currently have.3.7KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Next button should take you to the next file when you reach the end of the file
At the end of a file, we currently are prompted to continue from the top of the file, or do nothing. Some people will probably still want those options, so if the prompt allowed all three possibilities, that would be ok.768Views0likes0Comments