Document Reviews: From Draft to Agreed

Comments help improve a document, but they do not always tell you whether the people involved think it is ready. Livemark's review workflow gives that question an explicit answer.

Move a document from Draft to Open, then name the reviewers. Each can answer Ready or Not yet. Asking again starts a new round, so a previous answer does not have to stand for a draft that has changed substantially. The review belongs to the document rather than to a separate checklist somebody has to reconcile later.

The document has three statuses: Draft, Open, and Approved. Readiness answers drive the approval workflow; Approved is not simply a label to pick from the status menu. A Not yet answer or a reopened review can put the document back into Open.

Archiving is separate. Putting a document away does not erase its status or force it back to Draft when it returns. That keeps the decision and the housekeeping from becoming the same action.

Open a document, make it Open when it is ready for review, and ask the people whose answers you need.