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ReleaseSignoff

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How to use ReleaseSignoff

This page walks through everything a signed-in user needs: signing in, reviewing your own features, checking overall status, and (for admins) importing a release. Everything described here reflects the app as it actually behaves today.

New reviewer

Start with My Review. It is the fastest way to find and confirm your own features.

Admin

Jump straight to Admin for importing releases, testing workbooks, and managing aliases.

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Signing in

No password to remember. A one-time link does the whole job.

Enter your email on the sign-in screen and click Send sign-in link. A magic link arrives in your inbox within a minute or two; click it and you're in. There's no password to set or remember, and no separate signup step.

Member of more than one organization? Most people are only in one, but if you administer or review for several, you'll see a Which organization? picker every time you load the app fresh. Pick one from the dropdown and click Continue. This is the normal post-sign-in flow, not an error or a login gate.
“Your email isn't set up on any organization yet” means nobody has added you to the roster. ReleaseSignoff doesn't support self-signup: ask your admin to add you, then try the sign-in link again.
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Overview tab

Your landing page every time you sign in.

Overview shows the current release's label, its live status, and a running feature count at the top, followed by a quick-nav grid and a short set of stats for the release as a whole.

My Review
Confirm or flag your rows
All Features
Search all rows
Testing
Track scenario execution
PM Dashboard
Completion by owner
Release Admin
Import workbooks, manage aliases

This release at a glance

Below the quick-nav, a stats row totals up the release: total features, functional areas, owners on the roster, features reviewed so far, and features still unassigned. It updates live as reviews come in, so there's nothing to refresh.

The five quick-nav tiles are always visible to everyone, including Release Admin. If your account isn't an admin, clicking it just shows a message explaining that admin access is required, rather than being hidden entirely.
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My Review: the fastest way to do your part

Not a separate screen. A shortcut into All Features, pre-filtered to you.

Clicking My Review takes you into the All Features table with the Owner filter automatically pinned to your name, then scrolls the page down to your first not-yet-reviewed row so you land on it right away.

The row itself stays collapsed when you arrive; click its chevron to expand it and reveal the review controls. That's a deliberate one extra click, not a bug: it keeps the description and flags out of the way until you actually want them.

You only see your rows. You can review features in your own functional area(s) only. If you can't edit someone else's row, that's by design, not a permissions error. Anyone else's row shows their review status read-only when you expand it.
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All Features: the full table, with real filtering

Everyone's features in one grid, searchable and filterable.

Type into the search box to filter by title or functional area as you type. Every column header with a filter icon (Category, Functional Area, Impact/Effort, Owner, Training) opens a checkbox popover; the Owner filter's list includes an Unassigned entry alongside real owner names so you can isolate unassigned rows in one click. Click a column label itself to sort by it.

Active filters show up as removable chips above the table, each with its own × and a Clear all to reset everything at once.

Clicking All Features in the nav always resets to the full, unfiltered table, even right after using My Review. You never have to manually clear a stale filter left over from a previous visit.

Row detail

Click a row's chevron to expand it: full description, plus four status flags (Training/Testing Impact, Effort, End User Training, Super User Training recommendation). If it's your row, the review controls appear inline: a two-way toggle (Accurate as-is / Needs a change), an optional comment box, and Save.

Export

The export button in the toolbar downloads a CSV of exactly what's currently visible in the table, so it respects your active search text and filters. Filter down to your area first if you only want your own rows in the file.

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PM Dashboard: status at a glance

Useful for anyone, essential for the person running the release.

A stat row up top totals features assigned and unassigned, the percentage reviewed, and how many reviews were flagged Needs a change. An alert card below calls out any functional area with no assigned owner at all, since those need attention before the review can be considered complete.

Underneath, owner-by-owner progress cards show how far each person has gotten through their own assigned features.

Unassigned functional areas also surface as a small red badge on the Admin icon in the app's nav rail, so a gap is visible even before you open the dashboard.
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Testing tab: the second review type

Scenario execution, separate from feature-accuracy review.

Testing tracks execution of regression and integration test scenarios sourced from Workday's separate Testing Workbook. It is a different kind of review from All Features: All Features asks “is this description accurate,” Testing asks “did this scenario pass.” A release can need both, and they're tracked independently.

Each scenario row expands the same way rows do in All Features, but instead of a two-state toggle it uses four states, plus a notes field:

StatusMeaning
Not startedNobody has run this scenario yet.
PassedRan clean, no issues found.
Issues to resolveRan, but something needs follow-up.
BlockedCouldn't be run at all.

The toolbar lets you filter by type (Regression / Integration) and by status, and search by scenario or functional area, mirroring the All Features toolbar.

A scenario only shows up on this tab if its functional area is currently in scope for the release. Admins control that per release in the Admin tab (see below); it doesn't remove the scenario from the catalog, it just excludes it from this release's Testing list.
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Admin tab

Admins only. If you're a reviewer, this section doesn't apply to you.

If your account isn't an admin on the organization, the Admin tab shows a short message saying so and stops there. Everything below is for organization admins.

Importing a release

Upload the two Workday-provided workbooks: the heat map workbook and the owner roster workbook. Both are parsed entirely in your browser; only the extracted data is sent to the server. Give the release a label (e.g. 2026R2) and click Import. It's safe to re-run an import for the same release label; it updates the release in place rather than creating a duplicate.

Importing a testing workbook

Upload the separate Feature Release Testing Workbook the same way. The scenario catalog is org-wide and carries over release to release; import the matching release's heat map first so the testing import can attach to it by label.

Testing Scope

Toggle a functional area in or out of the current release's Testing tab without deleting its scenario catalog. This mirrors the in-scope decision the workbook's own Dashboard tab makes per release.

Managing functional area aliases

When Workday's heat map and the owner roster spell the same functional area slightly differently (for example, “Common Financial Management” vs. “Common Finance Management”), add the heat map's variant here as an alias for the roster's version. Future imports resolve it to the right owner automatically.

An alias or owner edit only affects the next import. It does not retroactively reassign features already imported under the old spelling.
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Switching organizations, signing out

Two controls, both in the header.

If you belong to more than one organization, the Which organization? picker shown right after sign-in is how you choose which one to work in for that session; reload the app and pick a different one to switch. There's no separate in-app org switcher beyond that picker today.

Sign out using the sign-out icon in the app's header, next to your name.