How to use the Camera Ready Revision step for accepted papers

Venues created with the Conference Review Workflow include a Camera Ready Revision step by default. When it activates, OpenReview creates a camera-ready revision form for each submission with an accepted decision, and only that submission's authors can use it.

To make changes to the default settings:

1. Go to your venue's Workflow Timeline and find the Camera Ready Revision step.

2. Make sure the decision options that mean acceptance are set correctly. In the Decision step, click Edit next to Decision Options and check the Accept Decision Options. The default decision options are "Accept" and "Reject", and "Accept" is the only accept option. A submission is treated as accepted only if its decision is one of the accept options.

3. In the Camera Ready Revision step, click Edit next to Dates and set the dates:

   • Activation Date: when the revision form opens to authors of accepted papers.

   • Due Date: when camera-ready revisions are due.

   • Expiration Date: when the revision form closes.

4. Click Submit.

5. (Optional) To change the fields on the camera-ready form, click Edit next to Form Fields. By default, the form contains the fields from the default submission form, without the email_sharing and data_release fields. See Customizing Forms for how to edit form fields.

The Camera Ready Revision step, as Program Chairs see it.

Post the decisions in the Decision step before the camera-ready Activation Date. The camera-ready form is created per submission, only for submissions that already have an accepted decision when the step runs. The step runs on the Activation Date and again each time you edit it, so if a decision is posted or changed later, click Edit next to Dates and submit the form again.

When an author submits a camera-ready revision, the changes are applied directly to the submission, so the submission always shows the latest version. To retrieve camera-ready submissions programmatically, see How to get all notes for submissions, reviews, rebuttals, etc.