For city reviewers and applicants

This guide is for someone outside the firm: a reviewer at a city or township, or the applicant. A firm has invited you to one of its projects as a guest.

• It costs you nothing. Guests never pay and never need a subscription; the firm that runs the review pays.
• There is no account to create. Your invitation link is your way in.
• There is nothing to install. Circulate opens in your web browser, like any other website.

1. Open your invitation

The firm sends you a link, usually by email, from the person running the review. Keep that mail: the link is your way back in.

1. Open the link. You see Open the shared project and a Continue button. (Nothing happens until you choose it, so a mail scanner that opens links cannot use yours up.)
2. Choose Continue. The project's page opens: its revisions and its Stages.

The first time, that is all. If you later open the same link in another browser or on another computer, Circulate first checks that it is you: you see "Check your email — we sent a verification link". Open that mail and follow its link.

Links last as long as the firm chose when inviting you. If yours has run out, you see "This link has expired or was revoked"; ask the firm for a new one.

2. Open the review

1. Under Stages, choose the review stage the firm asked you to look at. The review screen opens: the drawing in the middle, the Sheets panel on the left, the Properties panel on the right and the Markups list along the bottom.
2. Choose a sheet in the Sheets panel. Use the mouse wheel to zoom.

You see every comment in the stage, the firm's and everyone else's, with its status and replies.

3. What you can do

The firm chose one of two roles for you:

• As a reviewer, you mark up the drawings with the tools on the Markup tab (Cloud, Callout, Text Box, Length and the others, named as in Bluebeam and Acrobat) and reply to comments. The reviewer's guide explains the tools.
• As a reader who replies, you read everything and reply to comments, but add no markups.

Either way you can download a sheet with its markups: open File, then Download, and choose Download with markups (markups you can still edit in Acrobat or Bluebeam) or Download flattened (for printing).

4. Reply to a comment

1. Click a markup on the drawing, or a row in the Markups list. The Properties panel shows the comment, its status and its replies.
2. Type your answer in Reply and choose Send (or press Enter). Your reply appears under the comment, with your name, and the firm sees it at once.

Circulate can tell you by email when there is something new. Choose Notifications at the top of the page and pick Right away, Daily summary at 7:30 am or Never.

5. When the review closes

When the firm closes the stage it becomes read-only, and the firm can issue its record to you by email: the review letter and the comment list attached, and a link to download everything, including the marked-up drawings, for 90 days.

If you lose your connection while reviewing, you see "Working offline — changes will sync when the connection returns." Keep the page open; your work is sent when the connection is back.