How To Resubmit a Document After Making Changes

When you have revised a document, resubmit it and Valify treats the new file as a revision of the original rather than as an unrelated upload.

Steps

1. Open the original document's report from your document list.
2. Select Resubmit with changes, at the bottom of the report.
3. Upload the revised file. Keep the same document — resubmission is for a new version of the same RAMS, not for a different one.
4. The scan runs as normal, and the new report opens when it finishes.

The revision comparison

At the top of the new report you get the previous version's finding counts alongside the current ones — critical, needs attention and minor, side by side — so you can see at a glance whether the revision actually moved them. This is more useful than it sounds: it is common for a revision to close three critical findings and introduce a fourth, usually because a section was rewritten and a cross-reference elsewhere was not updated. The counts show the net change; reading the new report tells you which findings they were.

Both versions stay in your document list. Keeping superseded versions is good practice for the reasons set out in how often a RAMS should be reviewed and updated — after an incident, the question is what the document said at the time.

Does a resubmission use a scan?

Yes. Each scan is a full review, and a revision is a new document to read. If you are working through several rounds of revisions, what happens when your monthly scans run out covers the options.

When to resubmit

Once, after you have addressed everything you intend to address. Resubmitting after each individual edit burns the allowance and tells you less than one pass over a properly revised document. The exception is a substantial rewrite of a section, which is worth checking on its own before you go further.