Integrating custom processes before and after a review stage completes

The Review, Commenting, and Approval building block provides extensions points to invoke other processes. For example, before the stage for a review completes, the reviewed document is watermarked with the ID of the review for internal tracking purposes.(See User story for extending review template functionality in Managed Review & Approval Solution Accelerator 9.5 Solution Guide .)

The building block provides optional extension points to invoke processes that occur before, and after a review stage completes. The extensions points are called prereview and postreview processes (informally called pre-hook and post-hook processes, respectively). (See About prereview and postreview processes .)

Prereview: Processes are invoked before a stage begins.
Postreview: Custom Processes are invoked immediately after a review stage completes.

You can create custom processes to perform additional pre-processing or post-processing. For example, you can send additional email notifications, add a watermark to the review PDF document, or add extra support documents. (See Creating a custom prereview process to add a watermark to the review document using Workbench .)

After you create and deploy your custom in a LiveCycle application, you can configure your review template to use the custom process before or after a stage completes. (See Configuring the review template to use a prereview process .)

There are a number of considerations to ensure that custom processes you create integrate well with review stages. (See Prereview and postreview process development considerations .)