The following steps demonstrate the actual use of annotation. In our role playing here, the user "MICK" was the editor who made a mistake. User "DON", the reviewer, detected this, added an annotation and rejected MICK's work.

We are now back at MICK's Workbench session. The next steps explain how the annotation can help him to correct his work.

Annotation notification received in the inbox

Step 1

Start a new Workbench session and log on with the user ID "MICK".

Step 2

Click on the "Inbox" pane on the bottom of the Workbench. If required, refresh the message list by clicking on the "Refresh" button on the far right of the pane.

Step 3

The inbox probably contains messages about the task transition but ignore these for now. Just double click on the message about the annotation.

The associated content object will be preselected in the tree, and you can read the annotation in the bottom pane of the Workbench.

Reading annotations

By default, you see the annotation of all contributors. Use the drop-down list in the top bar of the "Tasks" pane to see the annotations of one specific person.

You can remove your own annotations at any time. If you are the assigned performer of the current task, you can also remove annotations added by other people.