Submissions & review desk

Submissions (/admin/abstracts) is the triage desk for everything the CFP brings in: filter, review, decide, and notify — all from one table.

The table

Each row shows Status, Code, Title, Tracks, Format, Speakers, Rating, Reviews, Source, Submitted, Notified. The Rating and Reviews columns roll up scores from Evaluation, so you can sort by how reviewers actually scored things.

Submission statuses are: draft, pending, maybe, accepted, declined, withdrawn. Status chips across the top — Pending, Maybe, Accepted, Declined, Withdrawn, Drafts — act as one-click filters, alongside a "Search abstracts…" box and Track / Format / Tag filters bound to the event library.

Making decisions

Open a submission and choose accept or decline. The decision dialog does more than flip a status: it composes a decision email preview addressed to the submitter, with an editable feedback section prefilled from up to three reviewer comments. Edit freely before sending. The confirm buttons are explicit: Accept and send / Decline and send.

Accepting a submission graduates it: a session is created and appears on the Sessions desk, and speaker onboarding tasks are assigned. The Notified column tracks whether the decision email actually went out.

Bulk actions and export

Select multiple rows to Accept, Decline, or Export selection in one go. Bulk decisions show a toast with Undo so a mis-click is recoverable.

Export CSV exports the current filtered view — statuses, library fields, speakers, ratings — for spreadsheets or hand-off to other tools. Decided rows stay in results and exports; deciding never hides data.

Where submissions come from

The Source column distinguishes CFP submissions from ones added by admins directly. Withdrawn submissions keep their history but drop out of the default working set.

A typical week of triage