How do I clear the app review queue?
Review apps is a queue with a live counter in the sidebar. Here is what one pass through it looks like, and why it fills up again.
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Every application and website somebody opens while clocked in creates a row in Review apps, one row per application per team. Until a person rates the row, its minutes are recorded as neutral. The queue is the set of rows nobody has rated yet.
The number in the sidebar
The Review apps item carries the number of unrated rows. It is an organization total that no filter changes, and it is not drawn at all when the queue is empty, so a number there always means there is work waiting. It is the same number as on the Unreviewed tab, and it moves the moment you rate a row.
One pass through the queue
- Go to Tracking, then Review apps. The Unreviewed tab is the queue.
- Owners and co-owners can pick a team first. A rating belongs to one team, so working team by team keeps the decisions consistent.
- Work down the page. Every row carries three buttons: Productive, Neutral, Unproductive.
- The row leaves the list the moment you press one, both tab numbers move and the table stays where it was. Nothing reloads under your hands.
- When the last row of the last page goes, the screen steps back a page by itself.
If the server refuses a change, the row comes back where it was and a message says so. A rating is never applied halfway.
Searching instead of scrolling
The search box matches the name and the address of the application, which is the shortest way to a row you already know about. The Reviewed tab carries one more box, Productivity, that narrows to the labels you pick. The Unreviewed tab does not have it, because an unrated row has no label to match.
The AI suggestion column is a starting point, not a decision. It says Pending until the application has been analysed, and no report ever reads it.
Changing your mind
A rated row stays on the Reviewed tab and keeps its three buttons. Changing a label also rewrites the productivity stored on that row's past activity records, so the productivity report changes for earlier days too.
Why the queue fills up again
A row is created the first time an application or a site is seen for a team. New tools, new sites and new teams all produce new rows, so the list is meant to be visited regularly rather than finished once.
Rating an application does not block it and does not stop it being tracked. The label only decides how its minutes are counted.
Who may rate: owners and co-owners always; managers only while Managers can see app reviews and Managers can change app reviews are on, and only for the rows of their own team. What the three labels mean and where the result shows up is in deciding which apps count as productive.
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