Please note: These features are only available in ConfTool Pro and if you have the "Track-Chair-Module" installed.

Some conferences consist of several tracks, allow different submission types, have sub-conferences or pre-conference workshops. If these tracks have their own submission and review process supervised by independent chairs, these chairs shall usually only have access to the submissions, reviews and members of their own track.

The track-chair-module of ConfTool Pro allows you to assign chairs and/or reviewers to such tracks, limiting the scope of these persons. To use this feature, you fist have to enable it. Please go to the page "Settings" => "Main Setup".

Here you can find the following options:

If you enable "Assign Chairs to Tracks" you may limit the access of certain Chairs to the contributions of one or several tracks. In fact you then have to assign each chair to at least one track, otherwise he won't have access to any submission or review. Users with the role Conference Chair still have access to all submissions and reviews.

If each chair has his own Program Committee you also need to enable "Assign Reviewers and PC Members to Tracks". This allows to assign Reviewers and PC Members to one or several tracks -- in fact each of these person now has to be assigned to at least one track.  Chairs will only have access to the details of the reviewers of their own track, other persons are not visible to them and cannot be considered for the review process.

If each track has different topics, too, you will also need to enable "Assign Topics to Tracks". However, many events this is not required.

After you have enabled one or several of the features, new options appear in the menu "Settings" of ConfTool Pro:

These pages are used to assign chairs and reviewers to the "Submission Types and Conference Tracks" you have created for your event.

Example: Assign Chairs to Tracks: