> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.gowindmill.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Select reviewees

> Select and filter the employees who will take part in a review cycle.

## Select reviewees

A new cycle starts with no employees selected. The employee picker shows active workspace members who can take part in the cycle.

Search for people, select them one at a time, or select everyone in the current filter results. Use **All**, **Selected**, and **Not selected** to check your list. Every cycle needs at least one reviewee.

## Filter the employee list

* **Name or email:** Find a specific employee.
* **Group or job title:** Find employees with matching company data.
* **Manager:** Find people who report to a specific manager, people in that manager's reporting line, or people with or without a manager.
* **Relationship:** Find your direct reports, indirect reports, manager, or skip-level manager when available.
* **Start date:** Find employees who started within a date range, on or after a date, or on or before a date.
* **Tenure:** Find employees in ranges from less than three months to more than 10 years.

You cannot use **Start date** and **Tenure** at the same time. **Group** is the only group-based filter. There are no separate Department, Team, Tag, Location, leave, contractor, or worker-type filters.

## Saved participant data

Filters only change the people shown in the picker. When you use bulk selection, Windmill saves the people who match at that time. It does not add new employees who match the same filters later.

Reviewees and reviewers must be active workspace members when you create the cycle. After you select the reviewees, use **Review assignments** to choose which review stages apply to each person.

## Check the selection

The **Review & create** step shows each stage and its participants before you create the cycle. A missing manager appears as **No manager**.

Windmill stops you from creating the cycle when a manager review has no manager or when a participant is inactive or archived. Select **Copy All Assignments** to copy the stage assignments to your clipboard.