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Tracking your web page drafts
After you send a web page draft for review, you can track it to see what the reviewer does with the draft.
Note: The draft review process only applies to web page drafts. It is not applicable to blog entry drafts.
To track your drafts:
1 Click the Draft Console link in the Pages panel.
Note: The Draft Console is not available if you don't have a website connection that has an administrator assigned.
The Draft Console displays links to all the drafts you have sent and all the drafts you're editing or reviewing. Each
sent draft also has status information.
Contribute removes published and deleted drafts from the Draft Console every 30 days. If you would like to manually
remove outdated drafts, press Control+Shift while selecting View > Refresh Drafts.
2 If you would like to view a draft, select the draft title.
The draft appears in Contribute; you can click the Draft Console link to return to the Draft Console.
To update your view at any time, do one of the following:
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• Click the Refresh drafts icon
• Click the Refresh button in the Draft Console.
• Select View > Refresh Drafts.
When you finish viewing the Draft Console or the draft you selected, select the browser or another draft in the
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Pages panel.
Reviewing a web page draft
When someone sends you a web page draft to review, the draft appears in your Pages panel in Contribute. You can
manually refresh the Pages panel to check for drafts to review.
When you review a web page draft, depending on your user role, you can edit the draft, publish it, send it for review,
or delete it. You can also view all the comments that previous senders have attached to the draft.
Note: The draft review process only applies to web page drafts. It is not applicable to blog entry drafts.
To manually retrieve drafts that are sent to you for review, do one of the following:
• Click the Refresh Drafts icon
• Select View > Refresh Drafts.
If any drafts have been sent to you for review, they appear in the Pages panel.
To review a draft:
1 Select a draft in the Pages panel to review.
The draft appears in the Contribute window for you to review; the draft status pane at the bottom of the window
contains information about the draft.
Note: If the draft status pane is not expanded, click the expander arrow at the bottom right of the Contribute window to
display the pane.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click the Publish button in the toolbar to make the draft live on your website.
at the bottom of the Pages panel.
at the bottom of the Pages panel.
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