Decisions
Review the proposals submitted to your container and accept, request revision, or reject them from the Decisions tab of the Multi-Program Chair Console. Accepting automatically creates the sub-program.
Purpose
The Decisions tab is where you act on the proposals submitted to your Multi-Programs program (Workshops, Tutorials, Special Sessions…). Authors send them with the Submit button on your program's card in the Submission Portal (public and signed-in); the proposal form is the Proposal type you set up in the program's Submission step. For each proposal you can Accept, Request revision, or Reject. Accepting creates the sub-program under your program, makes the proposer its chair, marks the proposal accepted, and emails the proposer.
The tab lists every submission to your Multi-Programs program except drafts. A Multi-Programs program takes only proposals, so each one is a proposal here, including any sent before the proposal form existed.
When you use it
- To work through proposals waiting on a decision (they're sorted to the top).
- To approve a proposal and stand up its sub-program in one step.
- To send a proposal back for revision, optionally with a deadline.
- To reject a proposal with a reason.
Walkthrough
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Open the Multi-Program Chair Console, select your container, and open the Decisions tab. The header shows how many proposals are awaiting a decision and the total.
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Find the proposal in the table. Proposer and submitted date are shown, with pending proposals listed first. Click Review on an actionable row to open the decision dialog.
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Read the proposal title, proposer, and abstract, then choose a decision: Accept, Request revision, or Reject.
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If you chose Accept, confirm the note that a sub-program will be created under your program with the proposer as chair. If you chose Request revision, optionally set a revision deadline.
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Add a message to the proposer (optional for an accept; recommended for a revision or rejection), then confirm. A toast confirms the result and the proposer is notified by email.
Tips
Accepting isn't just a status change: it creates the sub-program and links it back to the proposal:
- Name: the proposal's title; acronym: the Proposed acronym the proposer entered (generated from the title for older proposals).
- Dates: only your Multi-Program's event dates (start and end). Its deadlines are for proposals, so the new chair sets the sub-program's own submission deadline.
- Submission setup: copies of the program's Sub-program starting categories (Edit Program, from the conference's Predefined Categories), or a default Full Paper / Short Paper setup when none are set; the new chair adjusts them.
- Status: Running (listed in the Submission Portal with its own Submit) when it passes the checks to run; otherwise Draft, with a warning saying what is missing.
- Chair: the proposer.
You can edit the new sub-program afterward from the Programs tab.
The Submissions tab lists everything but has no Accept button of its own. Decide here, or click View on the row to open the submission page and use its Decision box.
The same decision is available in the Decision box on a proposal's submission page (open it from the Submissions tab). Accepting twice never creates a second sub-program, and once a proposal is accepted its decision can't be changed while its sub-program exists; delete or close the sub-program first.
The Decisions tab requires the Basic Decisions feature (available from the Light tier and up). On a tier without it, the tab shows a locked message instead of the proposals table.
This tab decides proposals submitted to the container. Paper-level accept/reject inside a sub-program stays with that sub-program's PC chair, not here.