Making Changes to a Critique After Submitting

IMPORTANT: This topic is for Online Critiques only, which is a pilot of new functionality available to a limited subset of reviewers at this time.

After you submit a critique, you can still go back and make changes to it as long as the meeting is still in the Submit or Edit phases.

NOTE: The scientific review officer (SRO) or extramural support assistant (ESA) has the ability to open and edit a critique. Until the SRO/ESA submits the critique, it is locked to the reviewer. This might happen if there is a compelling reason the reviewer is not able to submit the critique. If you enter your critique and the Edit button is disabled and you see a message such as the following, contact your SRO for help accessing the critique: WARNING: This critique has been locked by [SRO NAME]. Please contact your SRO for assistance. After the SRO/ESA submits, you can view/edit/resubmit if allowed by the meeting phase.

To change your responses on the critique:

Go to the List of Applications or List of My Assigned Applications screen.
Click the submit or update link in the Action column again.
The submitted critique opens, which has the SUBMITTED indicator next to the PI name.
Click the Edit button.

The critique becomes editable, the SUBMITTED indicator changes to UNSUBMITTED DRAFT, and you can start editing it. Keep in mind that you are now editing a draft copy, and the submitted version remains in the system.

To submit your new changes, you must click Resubmit after editing, which replaces the submitted version with the new version you just changed.

If you are not ready to resubmit, you can simply save and exit, and two versions now co-exist: the originally submitted version, and the draft copy that you edited but have not yet submitted.

Remember to submit the draft copy later if you want it to become your official submitted version. After you submit the draft copy, it becomes the submitted version, and there is only one copy (the submitted version) saved in the system.