# How-To Guides

- [Modifying Venue Homepages](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/modifying-venue-homepages.md)
- [How to customize your venue homepage](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/modifying-venue-homepages/how-to-customize-your-venue-homepage.md)
- [How to modify the homepage layout to show decision tabs](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/modifying-venue-homepages/how-to-modify-the-homepage-layout-to-show-decision-tabs.md)
- [Managing Groups](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/managing-groups.md)
- [How to Recruit and Remind Recruited Reviewers](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/managing-groups/how-to-recruit-and-remind-recruited-reviewers.md)
- [How to have multiple Reviewer or Area Chair groups](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/managing-groups/how-to-have-multiple-reviewer-or-area-chair-groups.md)
- [How to Add and Remove Members from a Group](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/managing-groups/how-to-add-members-to-a-group.md)
- [Publication Chairs](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/managing-groups/publication-chairs.md)
- [How to Copy Members from One Group to Another](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/managing-groups/copying-members-from-one-group-to-another.md)
- [Workflow](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow.md)
- [How to create, change, and delete notes](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-create-change-and-delete-notes.md)
- [How to test your venue workflow](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-test-your-venue-workflow.md)
- [How to support different tracks for a venue](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-have-different-tracks-or-types-of-submissions-for-a-single-venue.md)
- [How to Make Submissions Available Before the Submission Deadline](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-make-submissions-available-before-the-submission-deadline.md)
- [How to Change the Expiration Date of the Submission Invitation](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-change-the-expiration-date-of-the-submission-invitation.md)
- [How to begin the Review Stage while Submissions are Open](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-begin-the-review-stage-while-submissions-are-open.md)
- [How to Change Who can Access Submissions After the Deadline](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-change-who-can-access-submissions-after-the-deadline.md)
- [How to Enable Commenting on Submissions](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-enable-commenting-on-submissions.md)
- [How to Set a Custom Deadline for Withdrawals](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-set-a-custom-deadline-for-withdrawals.md)
- [How to Enable an Ethics Review Stage](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-enable-an-ethics-review-stage.md)
- [How to Hide Submission Fields from Reviewers](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-hide-submission-fields-from-reviewers.md)
- [How to modify the Review, Meta Review, and Decision Forms](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-modify-the-review-meta-review-and-decision-forms.md)
- [How to release reviews](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-release-reviews.md)
- [How to Enable the Rebuttal Period](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-enable-the-rebuttal-period.md)
- [How to Undo a Paper Withdrawal](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-undo-a-paper-withdrawal.md)
- [How to enable Camera Ready Revision Upload for accepted papers](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-enable-camera-ready-revision-upload-for-accepted-papers.md)
- [How to make papers public after decisions are made](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-make-papers-public-after-decisions-are-made.md)
- [How to enable bidding for Senior Area Chair Assignment](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-enable-bidding-for-senior-area-chair-assignment.md)
- [How to release the identities of authors of accepted papers only](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-release-the-identities-of-authors-of-accepted-papers-only.md)
- [How to enable the Review Revision Stage](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-enable-the-review-revision-stage.md)
- [How to remove the Abstract Registration Deadline](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/how-to-remove-the-abstract-registration-deadline.md)
- [Using the CustomStage](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/using-the-customstage.md)
- [IEEE's eCF  Integration for Camera-Ready Submissions](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/workflow/ieees-ecf-integration-for-camera-ready-submissions.md)
- [Paper Matching and Assignment](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment.md)
- [How to Compute Conflicts Between Users](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-compute-conflicts-between-users.md)
- [How to Post a Custom Conflict](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-post-a-custom-conflict.md)
- [How to create your own Conflict Policy](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-create-your-own-conflict-policy.md)
- [How to Bid on Submissions](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-bid-on-submissions.md)
- [How to add/remove bids programmatically](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-add-remove-bids-programmatically.md)
- [How to do manual assignments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-manual-assignments.md)
- [How to do automatic assignments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-automatic-assignments.md)
- [How to setup paper matching by calculating affinity scores and conflicts](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-automatic-assignments/how-to-setup-paper-matching-by-calculating-affinity-scores-and-conflicts.md)
- [How to run a paper matching](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-automatic-assignments/how-to-run-a-paper-matching.md)
- [How to modify the proposed assignments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-automatic-assignments/how-to-modify-the-proposed-assignments.md)
- [How to deploy the proposed assignments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-automatic-assignments/how-to-deploy-the-proposed-assignments.md)
- [How to modify assignments after deployment](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-do-automatic-assignments/how-to-make-manual-assignments-with-the-edge-browser-after-deployment.md)
- [How to enable Reviewer Reassignment for Area Chairs](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-enable-reviewer-reassignment-for-area-chairs.md)
- [How to Sync Manual and Automatic Assignments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-sync-manual-and-automatic-assignments.md)
- [How to Compute Affinity Scores Manually](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-compute-affinity-scores.md): This page is for manually computing affinity scores using Python to call our Expertise API.
- [How to Upload Edges in Bulk](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-upload-edges-in-bulk.md)
- [How to Undo Deployed Assignments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-undo-deployed-assignments.md)
- [How to Modify Reviewer Assignments as an Area Chair](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-modify-reviewer-assignments-as-an-area-chair.md)
- [How to Get all Assignments for a User](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-get-all-assignments-for-a-user.md)
- [How to Update Custom Max Papers for Reviewers or ACs](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-update-a-reviewers-custom-max-papers.md)
- [How to Make Assignments using Subject Areas](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-make-assignments-using-subject-areas.md)
- [Computing Affinity Scores and Conflicts for large venues](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/computing-affinity-scores-and-conflicts-for-large-venues.md)
- [How to upload assignments with Python](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-upload-assignments-with-python.md)
- [How to Run Multiple Matchings](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-run-multiple-matchings.md)
- [How to transfer conflicts between AC pairs or triplets](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/paper-matching-and-assignment/how-to-transfer-conflicts-between-ac-pairs-or-triplets.md)
- [Communication](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication.md)
- [How to send messages through the UI](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-send-messages-through-the-ui.md)
- [How to customize emails sent through OpenReview](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-customize-emails-sent-through-openreview.md)
- [How to send messages with the python client](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-send-messages-with-the-python-client.md)
- [How to Send Decision Notifications Using the UI](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-send-decision-notifications-using-the-ui.md)
- [How to view messages sent through OpenReview](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-view-messages-sent-through-openreview.md)
- [How to email the authors of accepted submissions](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-email-the-authors-of-accepted-papers.md)
- [How to get email addresses](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/communication/how-to-get-email-addresses.md)
- [Submissions, comments, reviews, and decisions](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions.md)
- [How to add formatting to reviews or comments](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/how-to-add-formatting-to-reviews-or-comments.md)
- [How to submit a Review Revision](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/how-to-submit-a-review-revision.md)
- [How to add formulas or use mathematical notation](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/how-to-add-formulas-or-use-mathematical-notation.md)
- [How to edit a submission after the deadline - Authors](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/how-to-edit-a-submission-after-the-deadline-authors.md)
- [How to upload paper decisions in bulk](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/how-to-upload-paper-decisions-in-bulk.md)
- [How to hide/reveal fields](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/how-to-hide-reveal-fields.md)
- [Update camera-ready PDFs after the deadline expires](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/submissions-comments-reviews-and-decisions/update-camera-ready-pdfs-after-the-deadline-expires.md)
- [Data Retrieval and Modification](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification.md)
- [How to get edges for Conflicts, Assignments, Custom Max Papers, and more](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-get-edges-for-conflicts-assignments-custom-max-papers-and-more.md)
- [How to check the API version of a venue](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-check-the-api-version-of-a-venue.md)
- [How to create a custom submission export](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-loop-through-accepted-papers-and-print-the-authors-and-their-affiliations.md)
- [How to Get Profiles and Their Relations](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-get-profiles-and-their-relations.md)
- [How to Get All the Reviews that I have written and their Corresponding Submissions](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-get-all-the-reviews-that-i-have-written-and-their-corresponding-submissions.md)
- [How to Export All Reviews into a CSV](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-export-all-reviews-into-a-csv.md)
- [How to Retrieve Data for ACM Proceedings](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-retrieve-data-for-acm-proceedings.md)
- [How to Get Reviewer Ratings](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-get-reviewer-ratings.md)
- [How to Get all Notes (for submissions, reviews, rebuttals, etc)](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/how-to-get-all-notes-for-submissions-reviews-rebuttals-etc.md)
- [Data Retrieval for API 1 Venues](https://docs.openreview.net/how-to-guides/data-retrieval-and-modification/data-retrieval-for-api-1-venues.md)


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