adding new admin to the journal

[remzigulsun]

Hello,
I looged in my account and deleted the editors and now I can't do anything as the administrator of the journal. When I login with my username and password I am seen just as a user not as the administrator. I can't make any changes to the journal. How can I manage the journal as the administrator again? If somebody can help me with this I will be glad.

P.S: This forum is great. I get very useful guidance through this forum. I thank to all those who take their time to respond.


Remzi Gulsun
The URL of the journal
http://www.mersinydyo.gen.tr/ojs

[asmecher]

Hi Remzi,

The user who performs all the administration tasks for a journal is the Journal Manager; I suspect you've un-enrolled yourself from this role.

To grant yourself this role again, you'll have to go into the database and execute the following statements:

• Determine your user ID:

  Code: Select all

  SELECT user_id FROM users WHERE userename = 'myUsername';

• Determine your journal's ID:

  Code: Select all

  SELECT journal_id FROM journals WHERE path = 'myJournalPath';

• Insert a new role with the above values:

  Code: Select all

  INSERT INTO roles (journal_id, user_id, role_id) VALUES (journal_id_here, user_id_here, 16);

The next release of OJS will allow Site Administrators to access Journal Management functions; accessing the database directly won't be required.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[remzigulsun]

Hello,
I reinstalled the script and solved the admin problem. Yet because it is an old version of the ojs script and it is likely to create problems I want to use the latest version. The script I uploaded is not the latest one. It is OJS 1.1.10 (.tar.gz). Previously I had uploaded and set up the latest version (OJS 2.0.2-1 (.tar.gz) twice but had error messages on my screen. The problem is: I upload the latest version of the script but when it comes to setting up I see that it is not the latest version. The unzipped folder's name is also OJS 2.0.2-1 (.tar.gz) but the content is not the latest version. I don't want to upload the latest version again until I am sure that it is really the latest version. Can you check the content of the latest version published on your website?

Thanks in advance.

Remzi Gülsün

[asmecher]

Hi Remzi,

Could you provide more specific information to the team at pkp-support@sfu.ca?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team