Reviews accidently rejected

[nomeknight]

Hi,

I had to send different emails to participants whose papers were (a) rejected or (b) accepted as Poster presentations (rather than those accepted as Papers). I composed an email for the Poster presentation acceptances in the same box as the Reject one (erasing the original 'Rejected' email) and thus effectively rejected all of the accepted poster presentations. While they received emails that their posters have been accepted, they will find their abstracts inaccessible on the website as they're labelled 'rejected' on the coordinating site. Is there any way of turning all of these into Accepted papers now? In the "Review submissions" section, they are listed under 'rejected papers' and when I enter each paper, it tells me that the Conference director's decision is that it has been rejected. As a director, should I not be able to get into the system somehow to reverse this decision? If not, is there any other way of having these abstracts reachable by the authors and others on the website?
Website: http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/adm ... .php?cf=14.


Thanks very much,

Naomi

[asmecher]

Hi Naomi,

When viewing the review, you can see the paper's ID at the end of the URL. To change the reject decision into an accept, execute the following MySQL query:

Code: Select all

UPDATE papers SET accepted='true' WHERE id = (put the ID here);

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[nomeknight]

Hi,

Thanks again- I'm not sure how to execute a MySQL query though. Could you please instruct me? After that I'm sure I'll catch on!

Cheers,

Naomi

[asmecher]

Hi Naomi,

It depends on your server; if you're running your own machine, or if you have SSH access to your server, you should be able to run the "mysql" program directly from the command line. Many shared hosts offer a service called MySQLAdmin via the server's control panel that you can use. Do you know if MySQLAdmin is available on your host?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team