You must assign decisions before taking these steps. Check out this article for more details.
The video below walks through this process in detail.
Publishing Decisions
Warning! Publishing decisions makes them visible on an authors dashboard. Do not publish decisions until you are ready for authors to see them.
Publishing a decision will not send an email to authors.
You can publish decisions individually by clicking on Publish this Decision.
You can publish some, but not all, submissions using a bulk action.
You can publish all decisions by clicking the Publish Decisions button.
Notifying authors:
You can notify authors after publishing at least 1 decision.
Step 1: Locate the Submissions Notification of Decisions card on your dashboard and click the Notify Accepted Authors button.
Step 2: You will now be in the Communication hub. You can apply filters if you need to notify authors by format; or if you need to notify certain author types only. Click Next to continue.
Step 3: Add in a good subject line and edit the email, if necessary. Scroll down to see more options.
You can now add an attachment, modify the signature name and change the Reply To email to ensure responses go to the right place. click Next to continue.
Step 4: Review the email. Click Back to make changes, if needed. You can send yourself a test message to see the email in your inbox. When ready, click Next.
Step 5: Send the email.
Step 6: Return to the dashboard and repeat this process until the Notify buttons have disappeared.
The notify buttons will return if:
- you change a decision on a submission
- you accept/reject a new submission
You can repeat this process from step 1 to notify authors, as needed.
