When making a submission, a creator will require an account to do this. They will be prompted to create an account or sign in to their existing Dapple account. The Creator account will contain a list of their previous submissions to different organisations and show the different statuses of each of these submissions.
Notifications
A creator currently does not receive any notifications when a status is changed however they will be able to see the current status of their submission by logging into their account.
Creator Dashboard
The Creator dashboard contains a list of submissions to all Organisations, the status of those submissions, any messages and the option to recall a submission.
Submission Statuses
When customising the Stages of a project, you can also set what the creator sees for each stage you set their submission. For example you might have listed their submission to be shortlisted however you might want this to show to the creator that this submission is merely "In Progress". Another example might be if you are reviewing submissions for a contest but want to inform all creators at the same time of the decisions. You might have an initial "Rejected" internal stage but this still reads "In progress" to the creator. Then, when all entries are in, you can send a bulk message to all creators at the same time.
How to setup
To customise what the Creator sees:
1) Head to your Team Settings > Projects
2) Select the Project you want to customise
3) Select Stages
Underneath the Stage name you will see the message "Displayed to creator as xyz"
4) Select the Edit option and add the name you would like the creator to see when their submission is moved to this stage.
Please note. The Draft status is a creator-only status. This represents any submissions that have been started but not finished. Creators will be able to open these submissions and continue editing a submission they have previously started. It will remain in draft until it is submitted.