Ask for sign-off
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Open the post's review page
Choose Share for review from a post’s menu and open the link it
gives you, or open a review link someone sent you.
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Request sign-off
Choose Request sign-off and add reviewers for this post: type a
teammate’s name, or any email address. To have people
sign off in order, choose Review in stages and name each stage.
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Schedule it once it is signed off
The schedule and post controls appear on the review page when every
stage has approved and the post has an account. A post that was already
scheduled keeps its time and goes out then only if it has been signed
off. If sign-off finishes after that time has passed, the post goes back
to draft instead of publishing late.
Send anything for review
Choose New review on the Reviews tab. It is one step:- What to review. Choose Upload for files of any kind (documents and images up to 50 MB each, video of any length up to 2 GB, 20 files per review), A post to pick a draft post already in Daoco, or Write to write or paste it. A draft post needs an account chosen before it appears in the list. A Markdown or text file becomes the text itself, so reviewers can comment on its words and compare versions.
- Title. What you are sending. A post names itself.
- Who signs it off. Type a teammate’s name, or any email address for someone outside your workspace. Paste several addresses at once if you like.
Have Daoco carry work through several steps
Ask in brand chat: “write the brief and get Sam to approve it, then make the video plan for the client to sign off.” Each step has its own reviewers. When a step is signed off, Daoco makes the next one from it in a brand chat and sends it for review. This is a review track, and it can have up to six steps. The strip at the top of each review page shows every step and where the work is. From a step’s review page:- Stop track means Daoco starts no further steps. The reviews stay.
- Resume track picks up at the first step that isn’t signed off.
Review a post or a piece of work
Reviewers open the review page. A post shows the way each platform will show it. Other work shows its latest version at the top with earlier versions below it, and a Changes from switch that marks what changed from the version before.- Approve signs off the version you are looking at.
- Request changes asks for edits. Your note is saved as feedback on that version.
- Take it back withdraws your decision while the review is still open.
- Edit it. On a post’s review page, click the post’s text and edit it in place; for other work choose New version. Either makes the next version and puts it back in front of the reviewers.
- Ask Daoco to revise from the comments.
- Send back for review as it is, when the answer is in the comments and nothing needs to change. The reviewers are asked to look again.
Reviewers outside your workspace
A reviewer outside your workspace opens the review from the link in their email. They need no account and no sign-in, and they see that one review and nothing else in your workspace. They can read or watch the work, comment, and approve or request changes. They cannot edit it, schedule it, or change who reviews it. The link is theirs: anyone who has it can review as them, so it shouldn’t be forwarded. Each email carries a fresh link, and the recent ones keep working. They can also sign in with the invited email address instead. To end someone’s link, remove them with the × next to their name in the reviewer list, or remove their address under Share on the review page. Either way their emailed links stop working and they can no longer open the review. Someone who reviews at more than one stage keeps access until they are off every stage.Emails and reminders
Each reviewer gets an email with the link when it is their turn: when the review starts for the first stage, and when the stage before theirs is signed for later ones. A new version emails them again. The person who asked for the review isn’t emailed about the first stage, which their own request opens, but is when a later stage reaches them. Someone named in two stages is asked at each. If someone hasn’t decided, Daoco reminds them by email after one day, again after two more, and once more after three more. Reminders stop when they decide, when a new version arrives, or when sign-off is canceled. The person who asked for the review gets an email when a reviewer asks for changes, with the note, and when the last sign-off lands. A review sent back to you also appears under Needs you on the Reviews tab. To nudge people now, choose Send a reminder from the ⋯ menu on the review page, or ask in brand chat: “remind Sam about the launch deck.” A person is reminded at most once an hour.Feedback, and Daoco’s changes
Anyone who can open the review page can comment, including people you invited by email. Select words in a brief to comment on them. On a video, click the picture at any moment: it pauses there and drops a pin, and your comment is saved on that moment and that spot. Every video comment is a marker on the timeline under the video. Click a marker, or the time on a comment, to jump back to it. Comments on an earlier version stay attached to that version. Switch back to the current version before approving. Members can resolve feedback or reopen it. Choose Ask Daoco to revise to have Daoco make the next version from the open feedback. Daoco replies under each comment with what it did: changed it, left it with a reason, or a question back. The new version says what changed at the top. Reviewers then look at the new version. While Daoco works, the review page says Daoco is revising. You can also ask in any thread on the brand by naming the review; Daoco finds it and sends the next version the same way. Asking Daoco to revise uses workspace tokens.Edits make a new version
Every edit to a post’s text, media, or accounts while it is in review makes a new version. Other work gets a new version when Daoco submits one or someone chooses New version. That adds a draft above the current version, starting as its copy: click the title or any part of the text to edit it in place, and drop files in or remove them below. Markdown you paste arrives formatted. Reviewers see nothing until you send it; Discard throws the draft away. A signed-off item can’t take a new version until someone chooses Review again. Approvals only count for the version they were given on. After a new version, the review starts again from the first stage. Anyone who approved before sees Still good and can approve the new version with one tap.The Reviews tab
Open Reviews under More options in the sidebar. It lists everything in review or signed off: posts, briefs, plans, and cuts. Work in a review track shows its track and step.
Each row opens its review in a new tab and shows who it is waiting on, for how long, when it goes out, and which stage it is in. A stage is due a few hours before the post’s scheduled time, and overdue stages are marked.
Change or stop a review
From the ⋯ menu on the review page:- Add a reviewer to a stage, or as a new last stage: a teammate, or anyone by email. Remove a reviewer with the × next to their name. Removing the last person in a stage removes the stage. The last reviewer of a review can’t be removed; cancel the sign-off instead.
- Cancel sign-off stops the review. Nothing holds a post after that, and its review page goes back to a single Approve. Choose Request sign-off there to start a new sign-off.
- Review again, on a signed-off post or work item, puts it back in review with the same reviewers. Everyone looks again. Restart sign-off does the same for a work item whose sign-off was canceled. If it belongs to a finished track, the track becomes active until every step is signed off again.