Reviews waiting on a document
Work that needs your decision waits in a list above the document’s first block until you open it.
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Where do reviews wait?
Open the document. Above the first block, N reviews pending lists everything that needs your decision, one row per item.
A run in several languages adds one row per language.
When nothing is waiting, the list is gone.
What can be waiting, and how do I open it?
Each row names what left it. The numbers match the figure below.
| Row | What left it | Button |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Paused, then a workflow’s name and its findings | A workflow that stopped halfway to wait for you | Review |
| 2. A workflow’s name and its findings | A workflow or a custom find that flagged blocks | Review |
| 3. New glossary — N suggestions | A glossary you built from the document and closed before adding its terms | Continue |
| 4. A style guide’s name, then generated, not applied | A style guide you generated and closed without saving | Review |
Review on the first two rows opens the review screen, where each item is a card you decide. See Review screen.
Continue reopens the glossary review where you left it. Review on a style guide reopens its draft.
How do I check changes a run already made?
Under the list, one row per run shows the changes it made to text you already had, for example Smart Proofread · 2 changed.
A row appears after Smart Proofread, Vision Proofread, a workflow’s proofread or rewrite step, Regenerate, and edits Literess applies while Allow All is on. Translating an empty block for the first time adds no row, since there is nothing to compare.
The new text is already in the document, so checking it is optional. The review never opens on its own.
Review opens the changes on the review screen: the previous text beside the new one, with Keep or Revert to previous for each block. A change a proofread made shows the note it was made for. See Review screen.
× clears the row and leaves the text as it is. When several runs changed text, the list shows the latest one, and 1 more shows the rest.
The Reviews panel and the editor’s Workflows tab list the same rows under Changes you can check. A finished run’s message and Literess’s card offer Review changes too.
Can I stop in the middle of a review?
Yes. Back to editor leaves the review screen at any time.
What you did is kept, on any device: the suggestions you asked for, the options you picked, your edits and your skips.
The row shows how far you got, for example 1 of 2 done, and stays in the list until you finish.
What does Paused mean?
A Paused row belongs to a workflow that stopped halfway to wait for your decisions.
Its remaining steps run only when you finish the review and press Apply & continue, and they work only on the findings you kept.
You pay for the steps that already ran. The remaining steps are paid for only if you continue.
How do I remove a review without deciding it?
Find at the top of the list opens the Reviews panel. The × on a review dismisses it.
Dismissing only takes the row off the list. The findings stay on their blocks as comments, and changes a run already made stay in the document.
Dismissing a paused review also cancels the workflow’s remaining steps. Transept asks you to confirm first.
How do I ask Transept to find something specific?
In the Reviews panel, type what to look for in the What should we look for? box (2 in the figure below), in plain words: for example, “inconsistent names for the lighthouse keeper”. The editor’s Workflows tab has the same box, and it is always there; the Reviews panel opens only while reviews are waiting.
Transept proposes a find (3): how it reports what it finds, which model it uses, and the most it can cost.
Run starts it. Expand opens it in the workflow builder so you can change it first. Both buttons are marked 4.
What it finds arrives in the list as a new review.
Does a find read the comments already on a block?
Yes. A find that flags blocks or suggests fixes reads each block’s comments, open and resolved, before it raises anything.
It won’t add a second flag where one exists, and it won’t raise again what a reviewer already settled.
You can steer it with a comment. Write “this phrasing is intentional” on a block, and the next find takes it into account.
To leave comments out, turn on Ignore open comments in the Find blocks step of the workflow builder.
Why did a review leave the list?
A review leaves the list when you finish it or dismiss it. A review with no findings leaves as soon as you open it.
Can I decide a finding without opening the review?
Yes. Each finding is also a comment on its block: open it in the Comments panel and apply or dismiss its suggested fix there, and the review counts it as decided. See Comments & real-time editing.
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