This seems to be a rather strange problem. One article has somehow got stuck in a way that the editor/section editor can neither accept nor reject the article. It has gone through the review process. Despite the wording of the error message, a section editor has been assigned to the article. But the dropdown menu for accepting/rejecting the paper is greyed out and unclickable. Below the drop down menu, it says:
"Before a decision can be recorded, a submission must be assigned to a Section Editor. The Review Version becomes, by default, the Editor Version."
This obviously does not make sense in this case.
I remember it happened once before and thinking that we might have messed up something, we resubmited the article and started over. However, as it happend again, this smells like a bug to me, although I don't know what triggers it.
Any idea why/how this could happen?
Editor can not accept/reject a paper
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Editor can not accept/reject a paper
by shubhash » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:11 pm
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by shubhash » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:55 am
Ok, I found the problem and reported it as bug.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2372
In short, if a copyedit version of the article has been uploaded, it not possible to accept/reject the article.
Because it happened and needed to be fixed, I simply deleted the relevant entries from the tables "article_files", "copyed_assignments", and changed "copyedit_file_id" field in "article" table. After that it was possible to accept the article. I don't know all the side-effects of doing this though. Please let me know if more changes are needed.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2372
In short, if a copyedit version of the article has been uploaded, it not possible to accept/reject the article.
Because it happened and needed to be fixed, I simply deleted the relevant entries from the tables "article_files", "copyed_assignments", and changed "copyedit_file_id" field in "article" table. After that it was possible to accept the article. I don't know all the side-effects of doing this though. Please let me know if more changes are needed.
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by John » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:39 am
Shubhash
I have tried to duplicate the bug by skipping the Editor Decision with a submission and then going to Copyediting, where I uploaded the file to step 1 of copyediting, and the Editor Decision remained active, as it should (even after a decision has been recorded, as editors change their minds.)
Am I missing a step in this?
I have tried to duplicate the bug by skipping the Editor Decision with a submission and then going to Copyediting, where I uploaded the file to step 1 of copyediting, and the Editor Decision remained active, as it should (even after a decision has been recorded, as editors change their minds.)
Am I missing a step in this?
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by asmecher » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:33 am
Hi Shubhash and John,
This behavior was changed between OJS 2.1.0-1 and the current release, OJS 2.1.1. Prior to OJS 2.1.1, it was not possible to record or change the decision after a submission was sent to copyediting; with the current release, you should be able to record additional decisions.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team
This behavior was changed between OJS 2.1.0-1 and the current release, OJS 2.1.1. Prior to OJS 2.1.1, it was not possible to record or change the decision after a submission was sent to copyediting; with the current release, you should be able to record additional decisions.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
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