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title: "Understanding the Action needed badge"
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updated: 2025-04-16T23:07:05Z
published: 2025-04-16T23:07:05Z
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# Understanding the Action needed badge

Easily identify submittals that require your response with the **Action needed** badge.

**What is the Action needed badge?**

- The **Action needed** badge appears on submittals that require your response.
- It helps you quickly locate pending submittals that need attention.

**Responding to submittals with the Action needed badge**

1. On the *Submittals* list, locate a submittal marked with the **Action needed** badge.
2. Select anywhere on the submittal row to open the *Submittal Details* screen.
3. Review the submittal and take the necessary action (e.g., approve, reject, or provide a response).
4. Once you respond, the **Action needed** badge is removed, and the system sends an email notification to the relevant stakeholders with your response.

**The badge does not display:**

- If a submittal no longer requires action.
- If the submittal's due date has passed.

![Screen capture of the Submittals list with the Action needed badge in the Collaboration Portal.](https://cdn.document360.io/5942a8d7-f3b1-4919-bdfa-d477d8498fe3/Images/Documentation/submittalslist.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-01T11%3A18%3A27Z&se=2026-11-01T12%3A18%3A27Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=pKAW749KkQlCtIYY6Zz7kv82Q9Fjy1hXWIiNDiBBg%2Fc%3D)