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title: "Customize Review Experience"
slug: "customize-review-experience"
tags: ["Time Zone", "document settings", "review display", "customize review experience"]
updated: 2026-11-03T22:11:37Z
published: 2026-11-03T22:11:37Z
canonical: "docs.revealdata.com/customize-review-experience"
---

> ## 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.

# Customize Review Experience

The **Settings** menu option, which is available within the User menu in the upper right-hand corner of the interface, allows users to customize their individual review experience for a project.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-icon-coding.png)

There are three sections in the Settings screen: **DOCUMENTS**, **DISPLAY** and **NOTIFICATIONS**. The Settings screen contains a *Search Settings* box to quickly find an item within any of them. Click **Save** after making any change to set it.

## **Documents**

1. **Coding** - Settings affecting the Document Review screen:
  1. ***Force Explicit Save*** will require the reviewer to click the save icon at the extreme left of the Document Review toolbar to save any coding. The default unselected option will save all tag, folder, field, redaction or annotation coding by going to the Next or Previous document.
  2. ***Enforce Required Fields for Related Documents*** relates to a Tag Profile setting called *Selection Required* that enforces populating values for Tags or Fields before the reviewer can move on to another document; these are called Required Fields. This setting asks if the user would like this to be enforced across all documents that share a related value, for example, Family members.
  3. ***Auto Select Default Document Tags*** propagates tag choices set as default to related document types defined in the tag when tagging a parent document.
2. **Navigation** - Settings affecting the flow and enhancement of review navigation.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-navigation.png)
  1. ***Skip Reviewed Documents*** improves efficiency of first-level review: Where, for example, a document and several family members have been coded together, this setting will skip ahead to the next parent in the assignment folder. This feature is turned Off by default, in part because on a coding verification sampling review navigation will not occur since all documents in the set have already been reviewed for that Tag Profile.
  2. ***Include Related Documents in Review Screen*** adds a Related Documents pane in the Document Review screen where a custom relationship field is present in the current Field Profile and populated with the same value as other documents.
  3. ***Pop Out Review Window*** is a control added in Reveal 11.5 providing the choice to open the Document Viewer in a new browser tab or to open a new window, which is useful in multi-display setups.
  4. ***Show Side-by-Side Preview*** is an Early Access feature added to Reveal 2024.7 that changes the action of the Grid documents’ **View** button to open a split screen document viewer that interacts with the Grid.
3. **Views** - Sets the viewer used in the Document Review screen, how PDF pages fit in the viewer, and the order in which views are presented. Display Order lists the views available in the project; the first item is the default view, which is set to Native view (PDF). Items in bold can be modified with redactions and annotations. Text Set Display is set to Native View by default.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/image-2D5V5T6U.png)
4. **Large Documents** - Sets the size threshold and action to be taken in handing a large document during review.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-large-documents.png)
  1. ***Behavior*** *-* Select one of four options for Reveal's handling of a large document in the Document Review screen:
    1. *Ask for every document* (default)
    2. *Show text set*
    3. *Show image view*
    4. *Download native file immediately*
  2. ***Large Document HTML Size (MB)*** sets a threshold for applying the Behavior rules; the default value is 25MB.
5. **Redactions** - A single choice, ***Redactions See Through***, affords the reviewer the ability to see the content being redacted during review. Redactions are rendered opaque and underlying text is removed upon production. Default: On.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-redactions.png)
6. **Wordlists** - Settings regarding defined Wordlist highlighting and navigation in the Document Review screen.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-wordlists.png)
  1. ***Show Wordlist Highlighting*** elects the display of Wordlist entries in the Text view. The reviewer may elect which of the assigned Wordlists to turn on or off in the Document Review toolbar. Default: On.
  2. ***Hide Wordlist Hit Arrows*** turns off the display of forward and backward hit navigation arrows to declutter what may be a busy highlighting display. Default: Off (arrows will be displayed).
7. **Security** - This setting toggles whether document level security is applied to an admin-level user. It allows an admin to toggle between a secured/not secured view when testing if document level security is working as expected.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note**
> 
> This does not affect the security of documents, it only changes what documents the administrator can view.

![103 - 07 - User Settings - Doc - Security-1](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/5796933/hubfs/DOCUMENTATION/ARTICLE%20SCREENSHOTS/103%20-%2007%20-%20User%20Settings%20-%20Doc%20-%20Security-1.png?width=933&quality=high)

> [!NOTE]
> **Note**
> 
> This setting only appears when document level security is enabled for the project in Review Manager.

## **Display**

1. **Language**
  - **Language -** for the Reveal application interface may be set for any of several world languages. Additional languages are being added, with Arabic, Korean, Portuguese and Russian to appear in an upcoming release.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-language-timezone.png) Application display languages include:

1. Arabic
2. Chinese (Simplified)
3. Chinese (Traditional)
4. English (United Kingdom)
5. English (US)
6. French
7. German
8. Italian
9. Japanese
10. Korean
11. Nederlands *(Dutch)*
12. Portuguese
13. Russian
14. Spanish

- **Time Zone** - Users can now customize how time is displayed across the application by selecting their preferred time zone to provide a more localized experience. To learn more about this feature go to [*Time Zone Changes*](/reveal/docs/customize-review-experience#time-zone-changes).

1. **Grid** offers options to enhance the readability of the table and related views:
  1. ***Alternating Row Colors*** (default: Off).
  2. ***Vertical Grid Lines*** (default: Off).
  3. ***Show Thumbnail Viewer*** (default: On) displays a panel of page images to the left of the Image Viewer window to help in previewing rough content and navigating to a page. Turned On by default, this may be turned off to provide more Image Viewer space for a page, or to speed up display of larger document images.
  4. ***Row Number On*** provides optional further reference for examining the contents of the Grid by displaying a number next to each row. Default: Off.
  5. ***Grid Row Spacing*** allows customization of the density of a user’s Grid view:
    1. *Compact* packs the most data into the table.
    2. *Cozy* is the default.
    3. *Roomy* spreads material for easier viewing.
  6. ***Empty Grid Cell Display*** offers the option of displaying a document field having no value with a *Dash* or *Blank*.
2. **Dashboard** allows the user to customize the display and order of all graphical widgets on the dashboard. For any of the following items (or any that may be added to the Dashboard), check or uncheck Widget On/Off for the item to control its display, and either drag the handle at the left or enter its numerical Display Order at the right: ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-dashboard.png)
  1. Timeline
  2. Deduplication (Candy Bar)
  3. Extensions
  4. Entities
  5. Custodians
  6. Documents by Predictive Scores
  7. Senders and Recipients
  8. Domains
  9. Emotional Intelligence

## **Notifications**

1. **Email** offers a single option, to ***Suppress Email Notifications***, allowing the user to elect not to receive emails reporting the status of any of a number of Jobs that may have been submitted by the user. Many such notifications may be generated in the course of normal review.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-email.png)
2. **Document Viewer** contains one control, ***Suppress hidden content notification***. This turns off hidden content advisories in Document Viewer that may not be warranted at a certain phase of review. The Hidden Content icon will still show that there is hidden content viewable at the user’s option.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/settings-document-viewee.png)

## Time Zone Changes

The time zone setting changes the time zone selected for your project to another time zone of your choice. This will update some - but not all - times displayed in Reveal to match your chosen time zone. See [Times that Update](/reveal/docs/customize-review-experience#times-that-update) and [Times that Do Not Update](/reveal/docs/customize-review-experience#times-that-do-not-update) for a list of which time zones change with the setting.

#### Times that Update

The following areas update to match the time zone you selected in settings:

- Dates and times visible in standardizes tables, seen mostly in displaying information related to jobs or actions performed in Reveal (e.g., for Archives, shown below).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/archives-timezone-change-blurred.png)
- Dates and times in the Assignments table (shown below).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/TimeZone_AssignmentsTable_2025.10.png)
- Dates and times in the Uploads table.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/uploads-timezone-blurred.png)
- Dates and times in the Jobs screen (shown below). ASPX pages (identifiable by a ![Icon indicating an external link with an upward arrow and square outline.](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/ASPX_Icon.png) boxed arrow icon) will display a message saying that time shown have been adjusted to selected your time zone setting at the top of each table.RENT-2064520645

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/review-jobs-screen.png)
- Dates and times in the Project Admin screen, specifically in the Hit Reports page, in the Wordlists tab (shown below).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/hit-reports-results-timezone-screen-blurred.png)
- Dates and times in the Production tab, in all four pages shown below.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/prudction-screen-timezone-blurred.png)
- Dates and times in the Document History modal, in the Document Viewer.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/document-history-timezone-modal-blurred.png)

#### Times that Do Not Update

The following area do not Update, and will show the same time regardless of time zone you select in settings:

- Date/time metadata attached to the data you upload or process into Reveal.
- Date/time metadata displayed in the Review Grid, ECA Grid, and Processing Grid.
- Dates and times associated with performing a search on metadata.
  - This includes the date/time you enter in the search field, as well as the date/time results of your search.
- Dates/times in the Search History log and Saved Searches.
- The date and time displayed in the “Last Built” value for **Build Document Folders** (shown below) and **Rebuild Document Data.**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/TimeZone_LastBuild_2025.10.png)
- Date/times attached to Work Folders, like AI Calibration Sets (shown below).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/TimeZone_WorkFolders_2025.10.png)
- Usage statistics graphs (shown below).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/TimeZone_UsageStatistics_2025.10.png)
- Other dates and times displayed in Reveal that are not explicitly mentioned in the Times that Update section.

## Related

- [Customize Review](/customize-review.md)
- [Document Review Workflow](/document-review-workflow.md)
- [Hidden Content Notification](/hidden-content-notification.md)
- [Admin Views – Searches](/admin-views-searches.md)