Personal Comments - Open, In Review, In Progress

The following table shows the functional operations that you can perform with comments, based on the comment type and your assigned role.

Comment created by the user role Ability of the user role
Administrator Submission Manager Publisher Reviewer Restricted Reviewer
Administrator N, V*, U*, C*, T, V**, U**, C** - - -
Submission Manager V, C, T N, V*, U*, C* - - -
Publisher V, C, T - N, V*, U*, C* - -
Reviewer V, C, T - - N, V*, U*, C* -
Restricted Reviewer V, C, T - - - N, V*, U*, C*

* Applicable only to the creator of the comment.

** An administrator can view, update, and close the comments of other administrators. This is applicable only when the attribute value of enhanceRoleBasedSecurityForComments is set to true in the config.xml file. See: Enhance Role-Based Security for Comments.

  • N - Create new
  • V - View
  • U - Update
  • O - Open
  • C - Close
  • T - Transfer