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Closing a review

The purpose of closing a review is to prevent review participants from adding additional comments to artifacts in the review. It also prevents review participants from changing the approval status of artifacts.

Note: After a review is closed, it cannot be changed back to an active status.

To close a review:

  1. Open the review artifact that you want to close.
  2. ClosedClick Close Review.

    Choose one of the following options for closing the review:

    • Click the Close Review button in the main content area when the review artifact is open.
    • Click the Close button located on the ribbon (Baselines and Reviews tab, Review group).

Note: Review artifacts are automatically published after you change the status of the review.

Reviewers and approvers can no longer comment on the review contents after the review is closed. Approvers can no longer approve or disapprove the review contents.

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