Sending a project for approval

A project has a status: Draft, In review, Changes requested or Approved. You change it by sending the project to someone — a client, a colleague — who looks at the screens, pins comments on them, and approves the project or asks for changes. They need no account on your instance.

Open it with Approval in the project toolbar.

Sending#

Why it works this way

What the client sees is frozen: editing the project afterwards changes nothing on their page. An approval is about something precise, and "they approved the version I sent on the 3rd" is a sentence you can still check a year later — the version is in the Versions panel like any other.

What the client sees#

The link opens a page with the project's screens and nothing else of Mocky:

• The screens work like a site: buttons, the links you drew between screens, forms.
• Pin a remark, then a click on the screen, drops a numbered pin there, and the comment written next is attached to it. The screen works again right after. A comment written without a pin is about the whole screen; General remarks takes comments about the whole project.
• Approve or Ask for changes, at the top. Asking for changes requires saying what should change. Once the project is approved, Approve turns grey and reads Approved; asking for changes stays possible.

The client signs with a name they type. Nothing checks that name: the link is the authority, so send it only to the people who should answer.

Why it works this way

The page never receives a screen's prompt, its design record or your private notes: only what is needed to draw it. A brief is often the confidential part of a project.

Reading the answers#

The status shows on the project's card, beside its name in the header, and on the Approval button with the number of new answers.

Comments (N) opens the same board the client sees — same screens, same pins. You can reply to a comment and mark it done (Mark as done).

The four statuses#

Send the new version saves the current state and creates a new link; the previous one stays readable but takes no more comments. Back to draft closes the current link the same way. Revoke the link makes it stop working at once.

The client may change their mind while the link is open: every decision is kept, in order.

Limits#

Deleting an account revokes its links.