Overview

A proposal is a set of attribute values, written by a single contributor.

If you own a product, you will be able to list its proposals, in order to approve, reject or even delete them.

List all the proposals to review

You have 2 ways to list the product proposals:

• From the dashboard, through the Proposals widget: this widget lists the last 10 submitted proposals. Each widget line is a proposal. 
  
• From the Proposals entry in Activity 
  

To quickly find products with proposals, a search bar on product label and product identifier is available. Its behaviour is the same as in the product grid.

The proposal grid also includes filter management to search on new attribute values. By default, the PIM displays the following filters: family, author, source, proposed at, and identifier.

Review the proposals

You have 4 ways to review products’ proposals:

• from the dashboard, click on the Review button in the Proposals widget
• from the notifications center, click on the proposal notification
• from the product form, click on the Proposals menu entry in the left panel
• from the Proposals entry in Activity

The two first actions and the last action take you straight to all product proposals, whereas the 3rd one will only display the current product’s proposals.

The proposals have the following properties:

• An author (aka the contributor)
• The changes made on the attributes, whatever the locale or the channel is
• A date and time sent for review
• A status

They are some filters available on each of the proposals’ grids. Do not hesitate to take advantage of them in order to filter your proposals.

You can review the proposals and its changes according to your permissions on attributes groups and locales:

• You can view only the changes you have the view permissions on
• You can review (approve or reject) only the changes you have the edit permissions on

Statuses of the proposals

A proposal can have several statuses, according to your rights on attribute groups and locales:

Review actions on proposals

A product manager can review all the proposals (approve or reject a proposal) or can partially review a proposal (approve or reject a change or somes changes) according to his permissions. These actions are also available as mass actions to be even more efficient.

He can also delete proposals.

Approve a proposal

Approving a proposal will validate the proposed values. When a proposal is validated, the values are added to the product, and the PIM creates a new product version. Finally, the proposal is deleted from the list of the product proposals.

To approve a proposal:

1. Go to the products’ proposals list, in the Activity menu for example
2. Drag your mouse over a proposal having the status Waiting for approval or Can be partially reviewed. The proposal will be greyed out and the Approve all button will appear 
   
3. Click on the Approve all button
4. A window appears displaying a comment text box, you can leave a note for the contributor
5. Click on Send to validate the proposal (with or without a comment). The popin window is closed, a green flash message appears on your screen and a notification is sent to the contributor.

Only the changes on values with edit rights are approved, added to the product and deleted from the proposal.

If you have the permissions to approve all the changes (status Waiting for approval), the proposal is fully deleted. Otherwise the proposal is kept with the not approved changes and the status is updated from Can be partially reviewed to Can’t be reviewed. Another product manager will have to review these changes.

Reject a proposal

Rejecting a proposal will refuse the suggested values (with edit rights) and it enables the contributor to change the proposed values or even delete the proposal.

To reject a proposal:

1. Go to the products’ proposals list, in the Activity menu for example
2. Drag your mouse over the proposal having the statuses Waiting for approval or Can be partially reviewed. The proposal will be greyed out and the Reject all button will be displayed 
   
3. Click on the Reject all button
4. A window appears displaying a comment text box, you can leave a note for the contributor
5. Click on Send to reject the proposal (with or without a comment). The popin window is closed, a green flash message appears on your screen and a notification is sent to the contributor.

Only the changes on values with edit rights are rejected, added to the contributor’s draft and deleted from the proposal. 
If you have the permissions to review all the changes, the proposal is moved to the In progress status. Otherwise the proposal is kept with the not yet rejected changes and its status is moved to Can’t be reviewed. Another product manager will have to review these changes.

Approve a change

You can approve each change of the proposal one by one, according to your permissions. When a change is approved, the value is added to the product, which creates a new product version. The approved change is deleted from the proposal.

To approve a change:

1. Go to the products’ proposals list, in the Activity menu for example
2. For the proposals with the Waiting for approval or can be partially reviewed status, if you have edit rights on values changed, a checkmark green button is displayed 
   
3. Click on the button to approve the change
4. You can add an optional comment for the contributor about your approval
5. Click on Send to approve the change. A notification is sent to the contributor

A confirmation message appears. The approved value is added to the product and deleted from the proposal.

If there is no more change to review, the proposal is deleted. Otherwise the proposal is kept with the not reviewed changes.

Reject a change

Your can reject each change of a proposal one by one, according to your permissions. When a change is rejected, the value is added in the contributor’s draft. The rejected change is deleted from the proposal.

To reject a change:

1. Go to the products’ proposals list, in the Activity menu for example
2. For the proposals with the status waiting for approval or can be partially reviewed, if you have edit rights on the changes on values, a cross red button is displayed
3. Click on the button to reject the change
4. You can add an optional comment for the contributor about your rejection
5. Click on Send to reject the proposal. A notification is sent to the contributor

A confirmation message appears. The rejected value is not added to the product. But it is added to the contributor’s draft and deleted from the proposal.

If there is no more change to review, the proposal is deleted. Otherwise, the proposal is kept with the not reviewed changes.

Delete a proposal

Only proposals having the In progress status can be deleted by the product manager, according to his permissions, in the product form in the Proposals menu entry.

Deleting a proposal updates the list of current proposals in order to make the contributor’s work easier.

Deleting a proposal also deletes all suggested new values: the contributor will not be able to find her/his changes anymore on the relevant product.

To delete a proposal:

1. Open the product and click on the Proposals menu entry
2. When mousing over the proposal’s line with the In progress status, the Remove button will be displayed
3. Click on the Remove button
4. You can add an optional comment for the contributor about your deletion
5. Click on Send to delete the proposal. A notification is sent to the contributor

The deleted values are not added to the product and the proposal is deleted.

Mass review proposals

When you have a lot of proposals to review, you can see them all in the proposals grid accessible from Activity > Proposals.

To mass review the products’ proposals:

1. Tick the proposals you want to approve or reject in the proposals grid
2. Click on the Approve all selected or Reject all selected button in the toolbar that is displayed at the bottom of the grid
3. Add an optional comment for the contributor
4. Click on Send to approve/reject the proposals. A notification is sent to the contributor
5. The action is performed as a back-end task. The report page is displayed so you can follow the execution of the action.

View the contributors’ drafts

You can view the inputs coming from the contributors in order to know what they have already enriched:

1. Go to a product form on which you are owner
2. Click on the ... button then choose the Compare/Translate option in the dropdown
3. By default, the product’s values of the working copy are displayed. However, you can change this using the following dropdown menu, choose XX's draft, XX being the name of the contributor you want to see the draft values
4. The values in the XX contributor's draft are displayed