Complete and assign milestones and tasks

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Milestones and tasks panel

You can view milestones and tasks for your review in a panel on the RevMan dashboard. The Milestones and tasks panel show the steps from review creation to publication.


For Cochrane reviews, there are separate milestones and tasks for:

  • Protocols
  • Reviews/updates
  • Evidence surveillance (assess the evidence before deciding to begin an update)
  • Amendments

See Cochrane project templates for additional information.

Progress status of milestones and tasks

Expand the panel to view milestones and tasks with due dates and assigned authors.

Tasks are colour coded:

  • blue = open
  • yellow = due (in the next two weeks)
  • red = overdue
  • green = complete

Each colour is also associated with an icon that shows the milestones and task status.

Use the icons on the right-hand side of each task to:

  • View task instructions (if available)
  • Edit task
    • Adjust task due date
    • Assign task to yourself or another author
  • Mark task as complete
  • Delete task 
    • Please check with your Unit Lead before deleting a task
  • Move task up or down within the milestone

Task instructions

Organizational administrators can add a URL to each task in a project template that links to the task instructions. Authors can view task instructions by clicking on the corresponding information icon (info) in the Milestones and tasks panel in RevMan.

Add instruction URLs

Log in to RevMan portfolio management with your organizational administrator role and go to the Project templates section in the left-hand menu. Select the template for which you wish to add instructions URLs.

For each task, click on the three-dot menu and select Edit task. Add or edit the URL that links to the task instructions in the dedicated field. Click on the green Check icon ((tick)) to save.

It is not mandatory to add an instruction link, and you can do it for all or just some of the tasks.

View task instructions

Instructions URLs are a useful tool for providing authors with easy access to task-related guidance. Once URLs have been added to the project template tasks, authors can access the instructions by clicking on the Information icon that is next to each task name in the Milestones and tasks panel in RevMan. This will open a new tab to the instructions page for that task.