Adding an existing field to Director's "unassigned" tab

[r2d2]

Hi Alec,

I have been trying add an existing field (affiliation) to the UNASSIGNED tab of the director's page. The idea is that the chair wants to see user afiliations beforehand. I have figured out to make appropriate changes in the following files:

/templates/director/submissionsInReview.tpl

/classes/paper/paper.inc.php

/classes/paper/paperDAO.inc.php

Is there any other file(s) I need to edit? The affiliation data is correctly displayed if I manually enter data in to the 'affiliate' column in the table 'papers' (I have added that column already). However, the 'affiliate' column does not draw data from the original 'affiliate' column in the 'users' table. Any help or direction will be appreciated.

Regards,
Jason

[r2d2]

Any help or direction on this?

Regards,

Jason

[mcrider]

Hi Jason,

The director's unassigned papers page is populated by the getDirectorSubmissionsUnassigned function in classes/director/submission/DirectorSubmissionDAO.inc.php, not PaperDAO. Also, the template that displays that page is templates/director/submissionsUnassigned.tpl. You should be able to do this without needing to modify anything but the template file; The Submission class that populates the page has a function called 'getAuthors()', which you can iterate through and call $author->getAffiliation() on to get the affiliation. So in the submissionsUnassigned.tpl file, within the {iterate from=submissions item=submission} block, you would add a {foreach from=$submission->getAuthors() item=$author} and within that block, call $author->getAffiliation(). You'd also have to wrap that call in a table column and also add a heading to the table (in the HTML above the {iterate} block.

Cheers,
Matt

[r2d2]

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your reply. I tried what you have recommended, but got a fatal Smarty error:

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in director/submissionsUnassigned.tpl line 37]: syntax error: 'foreach: item' must be a variable name (literal string) (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1165) in C:\...\lib\smarty\Smarty.class.php on line 1095

Below is the piece of code I inserted in \templates\director\submissionsUnassigned.tpl (those between the last <td></td>):

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{iterate from=submissions item=submission}
  <tr valign="top">
    <td>{$submission->getPaperId()}</td>
    <td>{$submission->getDateSubmitted()|date_format:$dateFormatTrunc}</td>
    <td>{$submission->getTrackAbbrev()|escape}</td>
    <td>{$submission->getPresenterString(true)|truncate:40:"..."|escape}</td>
    <td><a href="{url op="submission" path=$submission->getPaperId()}" class="action">{$submission->getPaperTitle()|strip_unsafe_html|truncate:60:"..."}</a></td>
    <td>
      {foreach from=$submission->getAuthors() item=$author}
        $author->getAffiliation()
      {/foreach}
    </td>
  </tr>


Jason

[mcrider]

Hi Jason,

Take a look at templates/submission/metadata/metadata.tpl for an example that iterates through the submission authors. In particular, you have to make sure that any variables/php code you call in a template are wrapped in {} brackets. In the metadata template, it uses

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{$author->getAffiliation()|escape|nl2br|default:"—"}

...which should work for you.

Cheers,
Matt

[r2d2]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your patience with me

I have changed the code as you suggested as follows:

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<td>
 {foreach from=$submission->getAuthors() item=author}
    {$author->getAffiliation()|escape|nl2br|default:"&mdash;"}
 {/foreach}
</td>


Now, I receive the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getauthors() in C:\...\cache\t_compile\%%95^95F^95FFC06A%%submissionsInReview.tpl.php on line 62

Any suggestion?

Jason

[mcrider]

Hi Jason,

Oops, i forgot you were using OCS. Try changing getAuthors to getPresenters.

Cheers,
Matt

[r2d2]

Thanks, Matt. It works now like a charm.

Jason