Submission: Batch & Send for Review
Group calculations into a submission and send them to your firm for review.
When your draft calcs are ready, you submit them to your engineering firm for review as a single batch. Submitting locks the calcs (their params freeze) and notifies the firm's reviewers. This flow is for client accounts — internal firm staff don't submit their own work this way.
Before you submit#
- Pick the engineering firm on the project. A project with no firm selected can't be submitted.
- Make sure every calc you want to include is in draft status. A calc already submitted, reviewed, or attached to another open submission can't be added.
Submit a batch#
- From the project page, choose the draft calcs to send and use the Submit for review action.
- ClearSpan groups them into one submission batch and applies the consistency checks below.
- If your firm doesn't charge for submissions, the calcs flip to submitted immediately and reviewers are notified. If the firm charges a per-submission fee, you complete a checkout first; once payment clears, the calcs move to submitted and reviewers are notified.
Use the project page's Submit for review action rather than flipping status directly — when your firm charges for submissions, that's the only path that runs the payment step.
Beam-and-post consistency#
Because a post is sized from its supporting beam, ClearSpan keeps the pair together at submission:
- A post linked to a beam must have that beam either included in the same batch or already submitted. You can't submit a post in isolation while its beam is still a draft.
- A beam with linked draft posts must include those posts in the batch — you can't submit the beam and leave its dependent posts behind.
If either rule is violated, the submission is blocked with a message telling you which calc to add.
After submitting#
Submitted calcs are read-only — to change anything, create a revision (see Revisions). Reviewers at your firm pick up the batch, then either approve each calc (→ reviewed) or reject it with a reason. If a calc is rejected, you'll be notified and can revise it — see Rejection: Handle Feedback & Revise.
If you abandoned a paid checkout#
If you closed the payment tab on a fee-based submission, the calcs stay linked to a pending batch and can't be resubmitted until it's released. Cancel the pending submission from the project page (only the original submitter can), then submit again. Re-submitting the same calcs also auto-releases your own prior abandoned batch.
For the meaning of each status the calcs pass through, see Calculation Lifecycle.