Submit comments to ISO (make national)

National Comments submission

Voter must submit the national comments to ISO in the Online Document before the ISO CD Consultation/DIS ballot closes. 

Comments to Resolve tab

Use the COMMENTS TO RESOLVE tab to easily view the comments placed in the document by clauses. The resolve comments tab is useful for accepting or rejecting multiple comments at once and also for accessing the filters and the Manage comments dashboard.

Submit (accept/mark as national) comments to ISO one by one

From the comment card, click on Manage comment, select Submit as national comment, and click on the Save decision button.

Once a comment is accepted or marked as national, it is identified as a national comment. The comment card is now in green color for quick identification that it is a national comment. In addition, it now includes the NSB's country code (instead of the national contributor's name),to help determine which country made the comment.

Submit (accept or mark national) multiple comments at once

You can also click on Select all to submit all the comments from the document at once to ISO.

Reject one comment (Not submit as national comment to ISO)

From the comment card, click on Manage comment, select Not submit as national comment, enter a motivation, click on the Save decision button.

Comments not submitted as national comments will have the label Not accepted.

To find comments that have been Not accepted and hence not submitted as national comments, click on the comment filters icon, under the filter category: Resolution(s), select the checkbox: Not submitted as national and click on the Set filters button.

Reject multiple national contributor comment(s) in one go

From the Comments to Resolve tab, select one or multiple comments, click on the Select resolution dropdown menu and select Not submit as national comment, enter a new or select an existing motivation, and click on the Resolve button.

Edit and move comment(s)

To modify a national contributor comment, click on the three dots menu on the comment card and select Edit, make the desired modifications and click on the Save button.

Similarly, to modify a "national" comment (after they have been submitted to ISO), click on the three dots in the "national" comment card, and select Edit, make the desired modifications and click on the Save button.

To move a national contributor comment within the document, click on the three dots in the comment card, and select Move. Next, select a text or place your cursor within the document, and click on place comment here.

Similarly, to move "national" comments (after they have been submitted to ISO), click on the three dots in the "national" comment card, select Move, select a text or place your cursor within the document, and click on place comment here.

Save comment as as draft resolution

It is possible to save the resolution of a national contributor comment as a draft, before actually submitting it as a national comment or before rejecting it. This process is useful, when the Voter may want to discuss or rethink the resolution before saving it. 

To do so, click on a comment card, and then click on the Manage comment button, select the resolution such as "Submit as national comment" or "Not submit as national comment" and then click on the Save as draft button. 

It is possible to find comments that have been saved as draft resolutions. To do so, click on the comment filters icon, under the filter category: Resolution(s), select the checkbox: Drafted and click on the Set filters button.

Create new comment(s) and make national

As a voter you can create a new comment and make it national directly when saving the comment. To do so, create a new comment or proposal directly in the online draft, select the Make National check box, and then click on the Save button.

Upload new comment(s) from file and make national

Voters can also choose to make national contributor comments national, while uploading the comments from a file. 

To upload "national" comments, click on Other actions, then from Comments, select Load comments from file. Next, from Upload comments section, click on the Choose a file button, and select the comments file to upload. Then from the Upload result section, select the checkbox: Submit all imported comments as national comments, and click on the Import valid rows button. Once the comments have been uploaded as "national" comments, you will see the message: Comments have been successfully uploaded. Click on this message to close the upload files window and go back to the online draft. 

You can filter comments with resolution Submitted as national and tag: imported to verify that the imported comments were indeed uploaded as "national" comment.

Discard national comments (make "un-national")

Comments already submitted as national comments can be discarded. To do so,  click on the three dots menu on the comment card and select Discard, enter a motivation or justification for discarding the comment and click on the Discard button. This national comment itself will be deleted.