Sending work out
A client or a freelancer outside the library gets one file that opens in their browser. Their notes come back as a file, and ReviewDeck puts them on the right review.
Send outside the library #
A copy of the review in one .rdeck file, with everything the reviewer needs to watch it and leave notes.
- Open the review, click Export and choose Send outside the library… To send several reviews in one file, select them in the library and click Export there.
- Check Your name, so the reviewer knows who to send it back to.
- If the video has more than one copy, tick the ones to include under Video quality & size. The reviewer's player picks the best one for their device.
- Click Send and save the file.
- Click Copy to copy the covering note it gives you.
- Attach the .rdeck file to a message to your reviewer, in your chat app or email.
- Write a line of your own, paste the covering note under it and send it.
Include my notes sends your notes on this version as context, so the reviewer sees what's already been said. Other people's notes stay out unless you tick them in. With a Team or Studio licence, For (optional) keeps who each send went to. Colleagues who already have the library don't need a copy: Copy link points them at the review.
Under More options, Web page (experimental) makes a page that opens in a desktop browser with no portal, for one reviewer on a computer. It is one file up to the size set in Settings, under Video & sending (200 MB to start), and a .zip above it. It doesn't work on phones or carry 3D, and it takes a password only when it holds one review.
What your reviewer sees #
Nobody needs an account or the app. The file opens in the browser, phones included, and nothing uploads. A reviewer with the free ReviewDeck app can open it there instead.
- They save the .rdeck file from your message, to their Downloads for example.
- They open it. In a browser they go to portal.reviewdeck.app, on a phone or a computer, and drop the file on the page or choose it with the button. With the free ReviewDeck app they double-click the file.
- They watch, leave notes and draw, as in your app. In the browser they type their name first.
- When they're done they click Send feedback (Return feedback in the app) and save the file it makes, marking it Approve or Request changes on the way if they like.
- They attach that file to a reply and send it back to you.
In the browser, Download the file saves it; on a phone, Share… sends it straight into a chat or an email. Copy as text gives the notes as text to paste, with the drawings as a block at the end while Include drawings stays ticked. The browser doesn't offer it for a file that holds several reviews. The free app is at reviewdeck.app, and the page for reviewers is reviewdeck.app/open.
Bring their notes back #
Their notes land on the review they belong to, in their own colour, marked as from outside the library.
- Save the feedback file from their reply, to your Downloads for example.
- Click Import feedback in the library's header.
- Choose that file under From a file. ReviewDeck files every note, drawings included, on the right review and version, and says how many. If they pasted their notes as text, use Paste text instead.
A reviewer's approval or request for changes sets the review's status as it comes in. Bringing the same file in twice adds nothing twice.
Passwords #
A password on a send is real encryption, AES-256-GCM, not a hidden gate.
- Set it
- Type it under Password (optional) in the Send window.
- Share it
- Send it to the reviewer by a different route from the file: a message, a call.
- Lost it
- It can't be recovered, by you or anyone. Send a new copy.
The reviewer types the password when the file opens. A Web page send with a password leaves your notes out, because a web page can't keep them behind the password.
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