Creating Initial Review for Project
The Initial Review option allows conducting a complete review of a project. This may be useful for a project being integrated in Review Assistant for the first time.
To create an initial review:
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Click the Code Review Board button on the Review Assistant toolbar.
![toolbar](/images/review-assistant/RA-toolbar.png)
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Click the down-arrow icon next to the Create Review button and select Create Initial Review from the drop-down list.
![Initial review menu](/images/review-assistant/initial_review_menu.png)
Note:
In case the All Projects filter is selected in the Active Project list box, the Review Creating dialog box will
appear prompting to select a project for the review.
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Click Add Files.
![Add files](/images/review-assistant/add_files.png)
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The Select files to review dialog window will appear with a tree-view control. Select the necessary files and click OK.
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To edit the list of selected files, click Edit Files in the Changes section of the review.
![Edit files](/images/review-assistant/edit_files.png)
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Enter the review data.
- The review tittle.
- Authors. By default, the author is a person who have created a review. You can manually add one or more authors from the drop-down list by clicking Add Author. To delete an author, click the delete icon Delete_User that pops up next to the field, when the mouse pointer is hovered over the field.
- Moderator. Assign the review Moderator. You can select an existing user(s) from the drop-down menu.
- Reviewers. You can add one or more reviewers by clicking Add Reviewer. To delete a reviewer, click the delete icon Delete_User that pops up next to the field, when the mouse pointer is hovered over the field.
- Watchers. These are team members that can monitor a review process. Watchers receive all review notifications and can see the review in My Review filter as if they were review participants. They can join a review any time if they want to add comments to a code.
- Comments. Add a description to the review. The description text will be transformed into a comment. The author of the comment will be a person who have created the review. This is not necessarily a code author.
![Create initial review](/images/review-assistant/create_initial_review.png)
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Click Create to complete the review creation process.
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After the review is created, you can add revisions to the review. You can add only the revisions that were
committed after the creation of the review.
![Add revision](/images/review-assistant/initial_review_add_revision.png)