OpenReview
  • Overview
    • OpenReview Documentation
  • Reports
    • Conferences
      • OpenReview NeurIPS 2021 Summary Report
      • OpenReview ECCV 2020 Summary Report
  • Getting Started
    • Frequently Asked Questions
      • I accidentally withdrew a submission, what do I do?
      • How do I add a Program Chair to my venue?
      • When will I be able to withdraw my submission?
      • I want to delete my withdrawn or desk-rejected paper, what do I do?
      • An author of a submission cannot access their own paper, what is the problem?
      • What should I do if I find a vulnerability in OpenReview?
      • How can I report a bug or request a feature?
      • What is the difference between due date (duedate) and expiration date (expdate)?
      • Will Reviewers be notified of their Assignments?
      • What is the max file size for uploads?
      • Why are the "rating" and "confidence" fields in my PC Console wrong?
      • What should I do if my question is not answered here?
      • My Profile is "Limited". What does that mean?
      • What field types are supported in the forms?
      • How do I recruit reviewers?
      • How do I obtain a letter of proof for my services as a reviewer?
      • How do I complete my tasks?
      • Can I automatically transfer my Expertise Selection to another venue?
      • Why does it take two weeks to moderate my profile?
      • What do the different 'status' values mean in the message logs?
      • I am an Independent Researcher, how do I sign up?
      • How do I locate the date a submission is made public?
      • I am a reviewer but I can't access my assigned submissions, what do I do?
      • Reviewers for my venue cannot see their assigned submissions, what should I do?
      • I am a reviewer and I don't have papers for Expertise Selection, what do I do?
      • How do I upload a publication with a license that is not listed?
      • I didn't receive a password reset email, what do I do?
      • How do I add/change an author of my submission after the deadline?
      • How do I find a venue id?
      • Why can't I update my DBLP link?
    • Using the API
      • Installing and Instantiating the Python client
      • Groups
    • Hosting a venue on OpenReview
      • Creating your Venue Instance
      • Navigating your Venue Pages
      • Customizing your submission form
      • Enabling Supplementary Material Upload
      • Changing your submission deadline
      • Enabling an Abstract Registration Deadline
    • Creating an OpenReview Profile
      • Signing up for OpenReview
      • Resending an activation link
      • Expediting Profile Activation
      • Add or remove a name from your profile
      • Add or remove an email address from your profile
      • Finding your profile ID
      • Entering Institutional Data
      • Importing papers from DBLP
      • Manually adding a publication to your profile
      • Finding and adding a Semantic Scholar URL to your profile
      • Finding and adding your ACL Anthology URL to your profile
      • Merging Profiles
    • Customizing Forms
    • Using the New Forum Page
    • Live Chat on the Forum Page
  • Workflows
    • Example Workflow
    • ARR Commitment Venues
    • Exercises for workflow chairs
      • Prerequisites
      • Exercise: Posting LLM generated reviews
  • How-To Guides
    • Modifying Venue Homepages
      • How to customize your venue homepage
      • How to modify the homepage layout to show decision tabs
    • Managing Groups
      • How to Recruit and Remind Recruited Reviewers
      • How to have multiple Reviewer or Area Chair groups
      • How to Add and Remove Members from a Group
      • Publication Chairs
      • How to Copy Members from One Group to Another
    • Workflow
      • How to Programmatically Post Support Request Form
      • How to test your venue workflow
      • How to Post a Test Submission
      • How to support different tracks for a venue
      • How to Make Submissions Available Before the Submission Deadline
      • How to Change the Expiration Date of the Submission Invitation
      • Desk Reject Submissions that are Missing PDFs
      • How to begin the Review Stage while Submissions are Open
      • How to Change Who can Access Submissions After the Deadline
      • How to Enable Commenting on Submissions
      • How to Set a Custom Deadline for Withdrawals
      • How to Enable an Ethics Review Stage
      • How to Hide Submission Fields from Reviewers
      • How to modify the Review, Meta Review, and Decision Forms
      • How to release reviews
      • How to Enable the Rebuttal Period
      • How to Undo a Paper Withdrawal
      • How to enable Camera Ready Revision Upload for accepted papers
      • How to make papers public after decisions are made
      • How to enable bidding for Senior Area Chair Assignment
      • How to release the identities of authors of accepted papers only
      • How to enable the Review Revision Stage
    • Paper Matching and Assignment
      • How to Compute Conflicts Between Users
      • How to Post a Custom Conflict
      • How to create your own Conflict Policy
      • How to Bid on Submissions
      • How to add/remove bids programmatically
      • How to do manual assignments
      • How to do automatic assignments
        • How to setup paper matching by calculating affinity scores and conflicts
        • How to run a paper matching
        • How to modify the proposed assignments
        • How to deploy the proposed assignments
        • How to modify assignments after deployment
      • How to enable Reviewer Reassignment for Area Chairs
      • How to Sync Manual and Automatic Assignments
      • How to Compute Affinity Scores
      • How to Undo Deployed Assignments
      • How to Modify Reviewer Assignments as an Area Chair
      • How to Get all Assignments for a User
      • How to Update Custom Max Papers for Reviewers or ACs
      • How to Make Assignments using Subject Areas
    • Communication
      • How to send messages through the UI
      • How to customize emails sent through OpenReview
      • How to send messages with the python client
      • How to Send Decision Notifications Using the UI
      • How to view messages sent through OpenReview
      • How to email the authors of accepted submissions
      • How to get email adresses
    • Submissions, comments, reviews, and decisions
      • How to add formatting to reviews or comments
      • How to submit a Review Revision
      • How to add formulas or use mathematical notation
      • How to edit a submission after the deadline - Authors
      • How to upload paper decisions in bulk
      • How to hide/reveal fields
      • Update camera-ready PDFs after the deadline expires
    • Data Retrieval and Modification
      • How to check the API version of a venue
      • How to view Camera-Ready Revisions
      • How to Export all Submission Attachments
      • How to get custom submission and author export
      • How to add/remove fields from a submission
      • How to manually change the readers of a note
      • How to post/delete an Official Review using Python
      • How to Get Profiles and Their Relations
      • How to Get All the Reviews that I have written and their Corresponding Submissions
      • How to Get All Registration Notes
      • How to Get All Submissions
      • How to Get All Reviews
      • How to Export All Reviews into a CSV
      • How to get all Rebuttals
      • How to Get All Official Comments
      • How to Get All MetaReviews
      • How to Get All Decisions
      • How to Get All Venues
      • How to Retrieve Data for ACM Proceedings
      • How to Get Reviewer Ratings
  • Reference
    • API V1
      • OpenAPI definition
      • Entities
        • Edge
          • Fields
        • Note
          • Fields
        • Invitation
    • API V2
      • OpenAPI definition
      • Entities
        • Edge
          • Fields
        • Group
          • Fields
        • Note
          • Fields
        • Invitation
          • Types and Structure
          • Fields
          • Specifiers
          • Dollar Sign Notation
        • Edit
          • Fields
          • Inference
    • Stages
      • Revision
      • Registration Stage
      • Bid Stage
      • Review Stage
      • Rebuttal Stage
      • Meta Review Stage
      • Decision Stage
      • Comment Stage
      • Submission Revision Stage
      • Post Submission Stage
      • Post Decision Stage
      • Ethics Review Stage
    • Default Forms
      • Default Submission Form
      • Default Registration Form
      • Default Comment Form
      • Default Review Form
      • Default Rebuttal Form
      • Default Meta Review Form
      • Default Decision Form
      • Default Decision Notification
      • Default Ethics Review Form
    • OpenReview TeX
      • Common Issues with LaTeX Code Display
      • OpenReview TeX support
    • Mental Model on Blind Submissions and Revisions
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  1. Getting Started

Using the New Forum Page

Learn about the differences and new features of the forum page.

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OpenReview is releasing a major update of the forum page for venues using the new API (v2). While the interface will look familiar, it should be faster, more flexible, and offer new ways to quickly find the content you are looking for.

Anatomy of a Forum Reply

Here is an example of a typical forum comment:

Every post on the new forum page contains the following information:

  1. Title: title may be provided by the author of the post or it may be a generic title. Clicking the link icon next to the title copies a direct link to this post to your clipboard.

  2. Reply Type: represents the type of forum reply, and comes from the name of the invitation that was used to create the post.

  3. Signature: shows the identity of the user who posted the reply. If the reply comes from a group and you have permission to see the members of the group, their identities will be shown in parenthesis next to the signature.

  4. Creation Date: shows when the reply was posted and when it was last modified

  5. Readers: shows who this post is visible to

  6. Revisions Link: see a list of all edits made (for more see "Editing Posted Content" below)

  7. Edit & Delete: allows you to modify or hide the reply (for more see "Editing Posted Content" below)

  8. Content: shows the complete content of the forum reply

  9. Collapse Toggles: allows you to show more or less of the content of the note. The top button will collapse everything down to a single line displaying just basic information, the middle button will only show the first 5-10 lines of content, and the bottom button will display the entire contents of the note.

  10. Reply Buttons: show all the available options for replying to this post. Clicking one of the buttons will open a form that allows you to submit your reply.

Sorting and Filtering Replies

The new forum page provides advanced controls for sorting and filtering replies such as comments, reviews, private responses, and PC decisions. The new controls look something like this:

  1. Invitation Filter: show only replies of a certain type. Can select multiple invitations (types) to show replies matching any of those invitations.

  2. Author Filter: show only replies signed by the selected user or group. Can select multiple authors to show all replies that include any one of the selections as a signature.

  3. Keyword Filter: show all replies that match the phrase. Matches can come from the content of the reply, the title, or the invitation.

  4. Sort Control: change the order of replies shown to either most recent first or oldest first

  5. Layout Control: change the level of nesting of the replies. The three options are Linear, Threaded, and Nested

  6. Collapse Control: change how much of all the replies is shown. By default the entire contents of the reply is visible, this corresponds to the three lines. Selecting the middle button (two lines) will only show the first 5-10 lines of content, and selecting the left button (one line) will condense the replies down to a single line displaying just basic information.

  7. Link Button: copy a URL to your clipboard that includes all the currently selected filter and sort options. This is useful for sharing specific views of a forum page with other people or bookmarking for later.

  8. Readers Filter: show all the replies that have the selected users or groups listed as a reader. Clicking a button twice will turn the button red – this means that only the replies that DO NOT include that group as a reader will be shown.

  9. Preset Views: venues can configure sets of filters and layout options that are displayed as tabs above the filter form. Clicking on a given tab will switch the current filters over to those settings.

Forum Layout Options

As mentioned in the section above there are currently three layout modes available for forum pages. These are:

  • Linear: all replies are shown at the same level of nesting (no indentation). This is useful to quickly see a chronological feed of all forum replies. If a given post is a reply to another reply (not a general reply to the submission note) the title of that reply will be shown in gray above the title. Clicking on this gray title will scroll the page to that reply.

  • Threaded: one level of nesting is shown. This layout is useful to group conversations into overarching topics.

  • Nested: two levels of nesting are shown. This is useful for breaking larger conversations down into sub threads.

Editing Posted Content

If you are logged into OpenReview and have permission to modify the content of a submission or a forum reply (aka a Note) you will see a dropdown button labeled Edit to the right of the title. Clicking this button will display a list of all the available ways to modify the note (aka edit Invitations). For a submission note this might include options to revise the submission or withdraw the submission, and for a reply it might include the option to edit the content of the reply.

You can see a list of all the edits of a given note by clicking on the Revisions link below the title.

Providing Feedback

We hope that you find the new functionality useful. If there is anything you would like to see changed or added please send an email to with the subject "New Forum Page Feedback".

info@openreview.net
An annotated example of a forum comment
An annotated screenshot of the filter controls on a new forum page