Workflow Action: Assign to a Review Group

Use the Assign to a Review Group action to automatically assign matching submissions to one or more review groups when the workflow runs.

Setting up the action

Under Then (required), select Assign to a Review Group, then configure the following:

Existing group membership

Choose what should happen to a submission's current review group assignments:

• Keep existing groups — adds the submission to the selected groups while keeping its current group assignments.
• Replace existing groups — removes the submission from its current groups and assigns it only to the selected groups.

Which groups to assign

Choose which review groups matching submissions should be assigned to:

• All review groups — assigns matching submissions to every review group in the program.
• Select groups — assigns matching submissions to specific review groups you choose from a list.

To add or delete review groups themselves (rather than assign submissions to them), go to Review → Review Groups.

Load balancing across groups

Turn on Load balance across these groups if you want matching submissions distributed across the selected groups instead of added to every one of them.

When load balancing is on, set Review groups assigned per submission, the most review groups any one submission should end up with. Submissions are spread evenly across the selected groups based on this limit. For example, 9 matching submissions across 3 groups with a limit of 1 gives each group 3 submissions.