Documentation for Crucible 2.8.x. Documentation for other versions is available too.

As the moderator, you can choose to summarize a review at any time.

(info) Normally, we recommend that you wait for all reviewers to complete their reviews.
The reviews that the reviewers have completed will be in your 'To Summarize' menu on the Dashboard.

To summarize a review,

  • Click the 'Summarize' button at the right of the screen.
  • Optionally enter a summary of the review.
  • If you have no further comments to add, click the 'Close Review' button; otherwise, click 'Continue Without Closing'.


Screenshot: 'Summarize' button




The above review is not yet complete

We can see that Geoff Crain has still not finished reviewing, because there is no green tick next to his name.

On clicking 'Summarize', the moderator may be prompted to confirm the action if there are incomplete reviews or draft comments in the review.

The requests for confirmation are warnings only

The review can still be summarized and closed.

Once the review is in the 'Summarize' state, the moderator can optionally add a review summary, i.e. describe the outcomes/tasks/etc.

Screenshot: Summarize Review

Screenshot: Review Closed

The summary is sent to all participants and displayed at the top of the closed review.

  • The moderator is the only participant who can add comments in 'Summarize' state. This gives the moderator the responsibility of the 'last word'.
  • Reviews in the 'Summarize' state can be closed.
  • Reviews in the 'Summarize' or 'Closed' state can be re-opened. Re-opening changes the review's state back to 'Under Review', allowing all participants to add comments.

Re-opening a review is not the recommended way to 're-review'. You should create a new review with the reworked changes and link it to its parent review (create a hyperlink back to the original review in the new Review's Objectives field).

Note that you need the 'Summarize', 'Close' or 'Re-Open' permission to summarize, close or re-open a review.


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