The Decision Stage creates decision invitations for Program Chairs. Use of the Decision Stage will overwrite any changes made to the Decision Invitations through the Invitation Editor. It will also overwrite any customized readership settings that were not made through the venue request form.
When to Use it
The Decision Stage should not be run until after the submission deadline, except in the case of public, single blind venues. They can begin the Decision Stage before the submission deadline if they first run 'Post Submission Stage' to create paper groups.
Decision Start Date
When Decision Invitations open for Program Chairs, in GMT.
Optional
Defaults to now
Decision Deadline
When decisions will close for Program Chairs, in GMT.
Required
Decision Options
Decision types. Expects comma-separated list
Optional
Defaults to "Accept (Oral)", "Accept (Poster)", "Reject"
Make Decisions Public
If yes, sets the readers of existing and future decisions to 'everyone'.
Required
Will not work if submissions are not public
Release Decisions to Authors
If yes, sets the readers of existing and future decisions to include paper authors.
Required
Will not work if 'Make Decisions Public' is selected while submissions are not public
Release Decisions to Reviewers
Sets the visibility of existing and future Decisions.
Required
Release Decisions to Area Chairs
Sets the visibility of existing and future Decisions.
Required
Additional Decision Form Options
Adds or overwrites fields to the Decision Form. Expects valid JSON surrounded by a single pair of curly braces {}. Read more about the accepted field types here.
Allows for bulk upload of decisions. Expects a csv containing the paper_number, decision, and comment for one paper per line. Does not expect a header/column names. The comment column is optional.
