Initiating Shared or Online PDF Review & Commenting from ES

Does anyone know if it is possible to initiate a Shared or Online Review / Commenting process from LiveCycle ES ?
I have a process where at a mid point the 'doucment' (e.g. a form) needs to be sent to 10-20 different people to get their input before the process is finalised.
I know how to convert the form to a Flat PDF and ARE it with Commenting Enabled and eMail it etc - but not how to initiate a Shared / Online review.
It's easy to do from Acrobat 8 manually but I can't see any 'Review/Comment' type facility in ES.
Thanks - Stuart

Hi
We have a component which allows voting.
See:
http://avoka.dnsalias.com/confluence/display/Public/Group+Voting+in+LiveCycle
For more details.
It supports arbitrary numbers of voters, and has several different ways of "counting the votes".
You can download a free trial here:
http://www.avoka.com/apps/checkcookie?qpac=y&qpac_code=avokaESComponents&location=%2Fapps% 2Fqpacdownload
Howard
http://www.avoka.com

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