manual activation of pay-per-view

[nevermind182004]

Hello,

Is there a way to manually activate access of individual users to specific articles? Like what happens in pay-per-view purchases; the user only views that articles he paid for. How about a manual setup for this? Like in individual and institutional subscriptions, users can pay online for the subscription but the admin in the back-end can also manually set up subscription (without online payment). For single article purchases, the only "trigger" for the system to allow access is the online payment.

We want to assign specific users to specific articles only. How can we do this manually?

Thank you!
Rye

[michael]

Hi Rye,

This is not currently possible in OJS. Only the non-manual payment methods may be used to purchase individual articles.

We have, however, flagged it as a potential enhancement for a future release. You can find the bug report here. Please feel free to cc yourself and/or add any additional details to the description.

If you have direct access to your OJS database, you could manually add the necessary records. In effect, you would need to add a new row to the completed_payments table for each user/article that you wanted to grant access to. Please see classes/payment/ojs/OJSCompletedPaymentDAO.inc.php for more details, in particular the insertCompletedPayment and hasPaidPerViewArticle methods.

Cheers,
Michael

[nevermind182004]

Hi Michael,

So after we follow your advice, we can assign specific articles to specific users. Can we set the access to expire after some period? And by the way, for pay-per-view is it right that there is no expiry for online access to purchased articles?

Thanks,
Ryan

[michael]

Hi Ryan,

Yes, that's correct. It's an article purchase without expiry.

The old pay-per-view method name is a misnomer and will be replaced in the next OJS release.

Cheers,
Michael