1. A method for generating an assent indication in a document approval and review function for collaborative document editing, the method comprising: loading into a memory of a computer a document for editing in a document editor; determining, by the processor of the computer, a set of authors for the document; modifying a file name of the document by the processor of the computer, by appending an identity of each author in the determined set author to the file name of the document; and, responsive to one of the authors in the determined set of authors assenting to a publication of the document, changing a visual appearance in the modified file name of an identity of the assenting author by removing the identity of the assenting author from the modified file name of the document resulting in leaving the identity of each author in the determined set of authors that has yet to assent to the publication of the document in the modified file name of the document.