Product text requires input from multiple teams, from design to content to legal. Ditto makes collaboration second-nature, and this guide will walk you through how to manage copy statuses, assign text to stakeholders, and notify teammates when you need their input, all in Ditto.

Statuses

Statuses are your team’s way to track progress of a text item in Ditto, and keep relevant team members in the loop. Using statuses allows writers and other collaborators to work on the right text items, signal to reviewers when it's time to chime in, and lets developers know when text is ready for production.

Set a status

1. Select a text item to open the details panel
2. Click the Status dropdown menu and choose one of the four status options
   • ⚪ None
   • 🔴 Work in Progress
   • 🟡 Ready for Review
   • 🟢 Final

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By default, a copy’s status is assigned as ⚪ None when first imported into Ditto

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When a status is updated, the text changes color in the web app to reflect its new status.

Status changes are tracked in the Activity log, so you can see who made the update. Anyone with editor and commenter permissions can update statuses.

Statuses in Figma’s layer name

When you assign a status to a text item, Ditto adds a status emoji to the layer name in Figma. Designers can see the status of all text at a glance, even if they don’t have a seat in Ditto.

These status indicators are on by default. To turn it off:

1. Click the three-dot menu in the top right of the Figma plugin
2. Go to Settings and toggle Status indicator

Variant statuses

Each text variant can have its own status. For example, if the base text is Final, a Japanese language variant can still be set as Work in Progress.