How to close a shared review

Hi:
I opened a shared review but did not give it a deadline. Now all the comments are in, and I want to close the review, making sure no one can enter anymore comments. How would I do that? Can I use Tracker to close the review? Exactly how?
Thanks
Mt. Ever

You can add a deadline to the review from Tracker and set it to current date and time. This way it will set the review to "Ended" state and no reviewers can add more comments.
Go to Tracker, select this review, on right hand side you should see an option "Add deadline". Click on this link and in the dialog thats shown now, select 'Review Deadline' and set it to current time. Click Ok on all open dialogs. This will set the new deadline. Now when you or any reviewer does a check for new comments/publish comments, the yellow colored Document Message Bar in your review will reflect the new deadline.
Hope this helps.
-Amboo

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