---
title: "Reviewer Notes"
slug: "reviewer-notes"
tags: ["bulk", "coding", "notes", "review notes", "reviewer notes", "searching"]
updated: 2025-07-11T17:54:29Z
published: 2025-07-11T17:54:29Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.revealdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reviewer Notes

Review contains a special field **Review Notes** where reviewers can enter their notes or comments. These notes are commonly entered in the Notes pane of the Document Review screen.

This field is created with the Project by default. ![51 - 01 - Reviewer Notes Field-1](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/5796933/hubfs/DOCUMENTATION/ARTICLE%20SCREENSHOTS/51%20-%2001%20-%20Reviewer%20Notes%20Field-1.png?width=1309&quality=high)

## **Coding**

This field can be edited while **coding documents** or through **bulk tagging**.

1. Review Coding

In **Document Review** the **Notes** pane allows reviewers to enter searchable comments ([***see below***](/docs/reviewer-notes#Searching)) about the document under review.

![51 - 02 - Enter Reviewer Note](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/5796933/hubfs/51%20-%2002%20-%20Enter%20Reviewer%20Note.png?width=551&quality=high)
2. Bulk Tagging

Using Reveal's searching and filtering tools, documents may be grouped as tags or folders, or bulk coded by adding text to Notes or other updatable fields. See [***Bulk Tagging Documents***](/reveal/docs/bulk-tag-documents)******for further discussion.

![51 - 03 - Reviewer Notes Bulk add-1](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5796933/DOCUMENTATION/ARTICLE%20SCREENSHOTS/51%20-%2003%20-%20Reviewer%20Notes%20Bulk%20add-1.png)
  1. In the **Grid** data visualization screen, click **Update** on the Grid toolbar.
  2. Select the data to **Act On**, either all documents in the current result set or individually selected documents in the Grid.
  3. Under **Action to Take**, select ***Include Notes***:
    1. Set ***Add*** as the **Action**.
    2. Enter the text to be added in the **Notes** box.
  4. Click **Submit** when done.

## Searching

Review Notes are searchable, increasing their utility beyond commenting on a specific document. This is done using the **+Add Condition** feature under **Advanced Search**.

![51 - 04 - Reviewer Notes Advanced search](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5796933/DOCUMENTATION/ARTICLE%20SCREENSHOTS/51%20-%2004%20-%20Reviewer%20Notes%20Advanced%20search.png)

1. You may start with a keyword search in the Search Bar, but that is not required.
2. Click Advanced Search **[...]** at the right of the Search Bar.
3. Click **+Add Condition**.
4. The simplest way to navigate to the **Review Notes** field in the Fields listing is to filter on all or part of the field name. In the above example I have entered ***not*****to filter a short list from which I can select ***Review Notes****.*
5. In the pop-up window enter the operator and, where relevant, the keyword or filter text to use. The options are: ![51 - 05 - Reviewer Notes field search popup](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5796933/DOCUMENTATION/ARTICLE%20SCREENSHOTS/51%20-%2005%20-%20Reviewer%20Notes%20field%20search%20popup.png)
  1. ***Is Like:***Add keyword or an example string.
  2. ***Is:*** A link prompts to select exact values and opens a picklist for selection.
  3. ***Has:***Retrieves only documents that have a value in this field, and creates a ***<Fieldname> Is not empty***search, here ***Review Notes Is not empty***.

## Related

- [Reveal 11.3 Release Notes](/reveal-113-release-notes.md)
- [Reveal 2024.2 Release Notes](/reveal-20242-release-notes.md)
- [Reveal 11.11 Release Notes](/reveal-1111-release-notes.md)
- [Admin Views – Searches](/admin-views-searches.md)
- [Hidden Content Notification](/hidden-content-notification.md)