# Reopen a participation

Once an employee has finished their feedback, they can no longer edit or add to it. Sometimes you need to reopen a finished participation so that person can adjust their feedback after the fact.

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Reopening a participation does not send an invitation email. If you want to notify the person, you can [send the invitation again manually](/en/c/feedbacks/invite-participants-by-email).

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## Who can reopen participations?

* **HR admins** can reopen participations in any feedback process.
* **Supervisors** can reopen participations when the setting "Supervisor can manage participants" is enabled in the [feedback process's options](/en/c/feedbacks/configure-review-options). A supervisor can then reopen the participations of the employees assigned to them.

## Prerequisites

The reopen function is only available when all of these conditions are met:

* At least one participation in the review group is finished.
* The review group is not [sealed](/en/c/feedbacks/sealing).
* No sealing process is running for the review group.
* The feedback process is not anonymous.

## Reopen a participation

1. [Open the participant list of the feedback process](/en/c/feedbacks/participant-list) (the Invitations tab).
2. Click the dropdown arrow at the right edge of the row for the review group you want.
3. Hover over the "Re-open participations" menu item. A submenu opens listing the participants whose participation is finished.
4. Click the name of the person whose participation you want to reopen.
5. Confirm with "Re-open participation" in the dialog.

The participation is now open for editing again. The person can rework and submit their feedback.

## What happens after reopening?

* The existing answers are kept. The person doesn't have to fill in the questionnaire from scratch.
* The questionnaire starts again on the first page. The person can step through every page and make targeted changes.
* The participation must be submitted again on the last page of the questionnaire before it counts as finished.

## Related functions

There are two other ways to edit finished feedbacks after the fact:

* [Subsequent changes](/en/c/feedbacks/subsequent-changes): lets feedback givers reopen their own finished participation themselves. This option has to be enabled in the feedback process's settings.
* [Edit answers](/en/c/feedbacks/edit-answers): lets HR admins and executive management edit a participation's answers directly, without the participant having to do anything.