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When an organization admin starts an access review, Ravenna assigns each person’s access to a reviewer, usually the person’s manager or the application’s owner. If you’re assigned access to review, you approve or deny it from Reviews in the sidebar.
Reviews appears in your sidebar while you have access assigned to you in an in-progress or completed review.

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Find your reviews

Open Reviews in the sidebar. The list shows each review with access assigned to you, its status, your progress, its applications, and its due date. Click a review to open it. You see the applications that have access assigned to you, with your progress on each.

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Approve or deny access

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Open an application

In the review, click an application. You see each person whose access to it is assigned to you, with their access level and decision status.
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Find the people you need

Search by name or email, or switch between All, Approved, and Denied.
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Decide

Click Approve if the person still needs the access, or Deny if they don’t. Add an optional note explaining your decision, then confirm.
Decisions save as you go, so you can stop and come back at any time while the review is in progress. Each decision is final once you confirm it. When you deny access, an admin is asked to act on it. They revoke the access, keep it with a reason, or remove it in your identity provider.

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See a person’s access history

Click a person on an application’s page to open the Access detail side panel. It shows their email, access level, and the current status of their entitlement, with a Timeline of that access, newest first:
  • This review, and whether it’s waiting for a decision.
  • Decisions and follow-ups from this and earlier access reviews, with who made them and any note.
  • The Ravenna access request behind it: requested, approved or rejected, provisioned, and revoked.
  • For access held through your identity provider, the group it was found in during directory sync.
If the row is assigned to you and still undecided, Approve and Deny sit at the bottom of the panel. Reviewers see the notes on their own decisions, and admins see every note.

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Decide in bulk

While the review is in progress, you can decide on many people at once:
  • On an application: select the people you want to decide on, then choose Approve or Deny.
  • On the review: select applications where you still have undecided access, then choose Approve all or Deny all. The decision applies to every undecided person assigned to you in those applications.
Each bulk decision takes the same optional note as a single one.
Learn more about how admins run access reviews

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After the review ends

Once an admin ends the review, it shows as Completed. You can still open it to see your decisions, and decisions are closed.
Last modified on November 13, 2026