Be in agreement with the NetX Review and Approval tool

One of the many things people use NetX for is approving assets. Drafts of designs, images from a photography session, and even external submissions from content creators outside the organization often need to be  discussed and vetted.

We kept hearing the current tools available on the market were far more complicated than our customers needed. Or, more commonly, our customers were just managing the workflow through email, which was time-consuming and clunky.

We listened to our customers and boiled down their needs into a Review and Approval tool within the NetX application.

The NetX Review and Approval tool, which lets users annotate, leave comments, and ultimately approve, reject, or send the asset back with a “needs-work” status is a quick, streamlined way to gather everyone’s feedback and track all of your projects in one place.

How the Review and Approval tool works

This new NetX feature allows users to review, annotate, and approve image assets within the NetX application. It’s an efficient and easy-to-use tool with a straightforward feature set, and the same intuitive interface customers have come to expect from a NetX tool.

Create a review project to:

• Get feedback from the team on a set of images from a recent photoshoot
• Collaborate with a designer on a flyer for an upcoming event
• Send out a batch of assets to suggest archiving or replacement
• Get approval or feedback from a client on a design

Once you’ve created a review project, you can view individual assets in the annotations editor, which allows you to highlight, pin, and comment on elements of the image. Need a typo fixed, the color corrected, or to replace an image? The Review and Approval tool lets you quickly point out the changes you wish to make.

Other users can then add their own comments or reply to yours, giving you a convenient discussion thread. Best of all, everything happens in real time with no reloading required. You’ll see everyone’s feedback in comments as quickly as they’re making them, and email notifications will keep members of the project in the loop.

(Want to learn more? Get into the nitty-gritty of the Review and Approval tool’s features in the NetX Knowledge Base.)

What’s next for Review and Approval?

While creating the new tool we talked to people from ad agencies, museum personnel, archivists, librarians, and retail creative operations. We demoed live prototypes with potential and existing customers during the design process, and it has helped us to refine the tool at every step along the way.

It’s been interesting to see all the ways NetX customers are using this new tool, and we’re already hard at work taking the feedback we’ve received as we build out the next round of features. There are a few big things we’re shooting for in the next iterations:

• support for other types of assets (including PDF, InDesign, and video)
• the ability to compare assets between iterations
• features for collaborating with external users

If you’d like to see a demo of the Review and Approval tool, lets us know! Or for existing customers, send us your thoughts in the NetX Ideas Portal.