New features with v6.2

PleaseReview v6.2 brings new features and enhancements.

PleaseReview 6.2 provides the following new features and enhancements:

1. OpenSpace reviews enable a co-authoring session in Microsoft SharePoint.

• This is particularly useful in the pre-review stage, where a small team of participants may need to develop the document content and wish to work in an uncontrolled environment with full Microsoft Word capabilities prior to the document moving into a controlled review cycle.

2. @Mentions allow users to mention other review participants when commenting in a review.

• By doing so, this notifies the participant and allows the participant to navigate to any comment where they have been mentioned. This allows the review owner and any other participants to direct another participant’s attention to specific parts of a review in a simple and effective way, allowing those reviewers who may not want/need to review the whole document be directed to those sections that are relevant.

3. Improved handling of Word documents. This includes:

• Full round tripping of Word documents that include VBA and/or macros within the document;
• Enhanced handling of Word content controls. These enhancements include the ability to edit both plain and rich text content controls within PleaseReview where the content control properties permit (i.e. if the content control cannot be edited in Word this behavior persists in PleaseReview);
• Enhanced handling of Transcelerate templates.

4. Enhancements to review set up when uploading documents. This includes:

• The ability to upload ‘Feedback’ documents is now configurable;
• An advanced option to easily upload multiple ‘Reference’ documents at once.

5. The review interface for both Microsoft Word and PDF documents now includes the ability to attach a file when making comments and proposed changes.

6. Change in behaviour when setting up a review: Review types are now used for all reviews. By default, Standard and Multi-phase review types are available (and OpenSpace if configured), this means a slight change to the review set up at step 1. Additional review types can also be added. Most of these enhancements have been introduced as a direct result of customer feedback. Several will be developed further in future releases.