> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://learn.nextedy.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Review Management

> Nextedy RISKSHEET provides built-in review workflows that capture, track, and resolve feedback directly within the risk analysis grid.

export const LastReviewed = ({date}) => {
  if (!date) return null;
  const formatted = new Date(`${date}T00:00:00Z`).toLocaleDateString("en-US", {
    year: "numeric",
    month: "long",
    day: "numeric",
    timeZone: "UTC"
  });
  return <p className="mt-10 text-sm text-gray-400 dark:text-zinc-500 not-prose">
      Last reviewed on {formatted}
    </p>;
};

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/none-17b4493f/yWl5nA2D0IzEnZC1/risksheet/diagrams/guides/reviews/index/diagram-1.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=yWl5nA2D0IzEnZC1&q=85&s=8962ee4d5339156f19f4ca9debca7119" alt="diagram" style={{ maxWidth: "620px", width: "100%" }} width="620" height="320" data-path="risksheet/diagrams/guides/reviews/index/diagram-1.svg" />
</Frame>

<Columns cols={3}>
  <Card title="Set Up Review Process" icon="file" href="/risksheet/guides/reviews/setup-review-process">
    Configure review infrastructure, pick a strategy, and define reviewer roles and permissions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Configure Comment-Based Reviews" icon="file" href="/risksheet/guides/reviews/comment-based-reviews">
    Enable inline commenting on risk items for lightweight, iterative feedback during analysis drafts.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Configure Approval-Based Reviews" icon="file" href="/risksheet/guides/reviews/approval-based-reviews">
    Capture per-reviewer sign-off as approval-tagged comments to support ISO 26262, ISO 14971, and other standards.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Configure Work Item-Based Reviews" icon="file" href="/risksheet/guides/reviews/workitem-based-reviews">
    Create review tasks as Polarion work items with lifecycle tracking, assignees, and dashboard reporting.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Manage Cross-Project Reviews" icon="file" href="/risksheet/guides/reviews/cross-project-reviews">
    Coordinate reviews when risks, requirements, or tasks span multiple Polarion projects.
  </Card>
</Columns>

<Tip title="Choosing a Review Strategy">
  Start with **comment-based reviews** for informal feedback during early analysis. Use **approval-based reviews** for per-reviewer sign-off aligned with ISO 26262, ISO 14971, or IEC 61508. Use **work item-based reviews** when review tasks must appear in Polarion dashboards and sprint plans. The three strategies are mutually exclusive -- you configure exactly one per sheet.
</Tip>

<Warning title="Approval Review Limitation">
  Risksheet approval review creates approval-tagged comments but does **not** trigger Polarion's formal approval state transitions (draft -> reviewed -> approved). Approval evidence is captured as structured comments on risk items; the surrounding Polarion document workflow remains under your project's standard rules. Plan compliance evidence accordingly.
</Warning>

## Staged Risk Assessment with Saved Views

Reviews pair with **saved views** to support a staged assessment workflow: identification -> classification -> mitigation -> residual assessment -> final review. Each stage exposes a different subset of grid columns so reviewers focus only on the fields relevant to that step -- severity, occurrence, and detection during classification, then residual ratings and audit fields during final review. Define one saved view per stage in your sheet configuration and route each review round to the matching view.

<Note title="Related Configuration">
  Review process setup depends on Polarion document workflows and user permissions. See [Configure Permissions](/risksheet/guides/administration/permissions) for role-based access control and [Set Up Review Process](/risksheet/guides/reviews/setup-review-process) for the initial configuration steps.
</Note>

<LastReviewed date="2026-06-24" />