All the Active Contract Authoring requests will appear under the New Authoring Requests sub-menu. You can assign the Contract Authoring request to you. The Active Requests can be accessed under the Contract Authoring Main Menu from the left-side navigation pane.
The user interface is shown here.
You can View the Authoring Request and also assign the request to you. All the “Assigned to Me” requests will then be available under Active Authoring Requests submenu.
The “Assign To” option allows the user to assign the contract to another user, which there makes the former as a read only user.