Approver.com makes it easy to share your documents with anyone online in a secure way. But sometimes it’s difficult to know when a page you’re looking at online is accessible only to you, to your colleagues or to anyone on the web. (This is a usability problem that exists on a lot of web sites, we’ve found.)
You can always check on the review status of a document on the document review page. But we’ve had a few inquiries from users about ways to make it even more obvious that a document is accessible only to its author. Today we added a feature that does just that — we call it the Private Flag. The Private Flag is a grey box that appears at the top of the document review page:
The box appears only to the document author, and lets you know that the document is private — only viewable by you, the document author. If you invite someone to review the document, the Private Flag goes away to denote that the document is no longer private (but of course you can uninvite a reviewer at any time to make the document private again).
The easiest way to see how the Private Flag works is to create a document in the browser. You’ll see the Private Flag from the moment you create the document, and it’ll stay active until you invite someone to review that document.
Our hope is that this will give Approver.com users more control and information about their documents, making the site easier to use and understand at the same time.
