Can "Submissions" on the ABOUT page be removed or modified?

[cbel12]

In a multiple journal installation, some journals will be accepting online submissions but others will not.

For those journals that will not accept online submission, registration as an author has been disabled in Setup 4.1 and the Information For Authors has been modified in Setup 5.7 to remove links to login and registration. However, unless I'm missing it in the documentation or previous posts to the support fora, I can't find any way to get rid of or modify the "Submissions" section of the page linked from "ABOUT" in the nav bar for these journals. Without some way to modify this authors can (1) click on the "GO TO LOGIN" link but will not find an "Author" role enabling them to submit or (2) click on the "GO TO REGISTRATION" link and either not be able to register at all or not be able to register as an Author. This is bound to cause frustration.

Have I missed something? Can this area of the "ABOUT" page be eliminated or modified? If the answer is no, this is an enhancement request I'd make so this area is either configurable or is changed automatically based on choices made in Setup.

Thanks,
Jeff Belliston

[jmacgreg]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks -- I've reported this as a bug (http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/post_bug.cgi); please feel free to CC yourself to that report for future updates.

Cheers,
James

[cbel12]

Thanks James.

[jmacgreg]

Hi Jeff,

Please note that the correct link to that bug report is http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4198.

Cheers,
James

[Roelf]

Hi,

I was wondering whether the bug reported by C. Jeffrey Belliston about Online subsmissions has already been resolved?

I am currently using version 2.3.4.0.

Regards,

Roelf barkhuis

[jmacgreg]

Hi Roelf,

Unfortunately, that request hasn't been completed yet. Please feel free to CC yourself to that report for future updates.

Cheers,
James

[Almadl]

I wanted to say that we have "solved" the issue via CSS,
with:

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div#onlineSubmissions {
    display: none;
}

See for example:
http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/about/ ... ubmissions

Andrea

[geirrosset]

This was to be my next post as well. Where is the css file for each journal located? Or could this be done for all journals? None of our journals accept online submissions.

Regards
Geir R
Oslo
Norway

[JasonNugent]

Hi Geir,

The styles/ subdirectory contains a number of CSS files that are loaded for your entire OJS installation. If you're looking to make a change that affects all of your journals, I could suggest the one called "common.css".

Regards,
Jason

[geirrosset]

OK. Thanks. That did not do quite what I thought it would do. The link to submit articles online is still visible on the "About" page and on the sub page "Manuscript", except it doesn't do anything. This is just as bad because it makes it look like the site just doesn't work. How can I hide the link?

Geir

[JasonNugent]

Hi everyone,

I just had a look at the CSS and what you probably want is:

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div#aboutSubmissions {
    display: none;
}


Which will hide the entire div element (and all of its sub elements, which is the list of links)

Regards,

Jason