Delegating your response to comment circulations

By delegating your response, you assign an alternate user to comment on a circulation. You may delegate your response to individual documents or to an entire circulation. To delegate your response, you must belong to a role that has the Delegate option enabled.

To delegate your response to all documents in a comment circulation:

1. If you received a reminder email message, click the here hyperlink. The Circulations view is opened in your web browser with the circulations that require your response listed.

   OR

   Open the Circulations view as described in Understanding the Circulations view. Click the Inbox folder and click Circulations that require my actions. The circulations that require your response are listed.

2. In the row for the circulation that you want to delegate, on the Actions menu, click Delegate. A page showing the delegation options appears.
3. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
4. Click Delegate circulation. The Circulations view reappears. The circulation no longer appears when the Circulations that require my actions filter is active but still appears when the Open circulations filter is active. For each document in the circulation, the text Deleg. is added as your comment.

Comment delegation options

Option	Description
Delegate to	To add user names: Click Add users. The Find users page opens in a new browser window. Type text in at least one of the fields and click Find users. Wildcard characters are supported. Names are found using the OR operator. When the search has completed, a list of the users that match your search appears. Select the checkbox in the left column of each user that you want to accept. Repeat step 3 for each user that you want to find. When you are finished selecting users, click Close. The Find users page closes and the names of the users that you selected appear in the option field. To remove a user: Select the user name and click Remove users.
Options	Select Send email message to send a delegation message to the users listed in Delegate to.
Subject	The subject of the delegation message.
Message	The body of the delegation message.

To delegate your response to an individual document in a comment circulation:

1. If you received a reminder email message, click the here hyperlink. The Circulations view is opened in your web browser with the circulations that require your response listed.

   OR

   Open the Circulations view as described in Understanding the Circulations view. Click the Inbox folder and click Circulations that require my actions. The circulations that require your response are listed.

2. Expand the circulation to which you want to respond. The documents within the circulation appear. Documents that require your comment include a Comment hyperlink in the Actions column. Documents that you may delegate include a Delegate hyperlink in the Actions column.
3. Click Delegate for the document that you want to delegate. A page showing the delegation options appears.
4. Select or type options using the descriptions in the preceding table.
5. Click Delegate circulation. The Circulations view reappears. For the document that you delegated, the text Deleg. is added as your comment.