Here you get to the tutorial for monitoring. In the Window New Documents (below Monitoring) you find the documents which are to be distributed. Those documents are not yet distributed. Monitoring means in this context monitoring of a circular. You see the following data:

• Name of the monitoring
• Comment on the list
• Date of creation
• Number of Documents of the monitoring

In the tool menu e the following commands are located (below you find more detailed explanations):

Create circular

You get to the document display. In the right window you see the document data and in the left window you can choose the users and groups (and descriptors) to whom the documents should be delegated. (Above the field Additional to your recipients are displayed. Recipients can be added or deleted in the menu Users-> Recipients.) You can delegate each document to a different user or group. If you label a document with a descriptor, you can search this document by the descriptor. Additionally you can distribute this documents to a user group by the descriptors. For that you need the additionally role attribute user_distributor_dist. Ask the administrator for this. Edit all documents in the list and then click on Create circular. In the next view you enter the name of circular and the deadline for circular. You can enter the deadline as number of days or as date. Beneath this you see the documents to be distributed in a list. The right column displays the recipients. There you also see, if a descriptor is chosen as recipient. Finally click on the button Create circular. The documents will now be distributed and shown at the welcome page of the users.

Save new

With this command you can change the name and the recipient / owner of the monitoring.

Delegate all documents

You distribute all documents of this monitoring to a distributor, viewer or group. You don't need to view all the documents. Just enter patent department, distributor / recipient and deadline. Clicking on Save generates the circular with the entered data.