Deleting Sections

[philipl]

Posted this on the technical section, but no answer, so moved it over here. Hope this is correct location for query.

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I have been using journal sections for authors to submit articles for special editions. This was discussed here before:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2766

I am not sure which version I am using (system was set up by our technical people in 2009).

I was about to delete a few old sections e.g. dealing with a special edition on Nano-technology, but a message came up saying that I would have to "re-publish any articles in this section". Not sure what that means - will it affect the already published issues? According to the posting above, it shouldn't, but the warning message suggests otherwise.

Journal is at http://ejlt.org

Philip

[philipl]

Is anyone there?

[springday]

Hi Philip,

as just another OJS user I don't know the answer to your question either, but I'm here at least. Sorry, that doesn't help you, I know. However, as you said you don't know which version you're using: That's very easy to find out. Log-in as administrator, and then click "System information". That will tell you which version you are using. (Sure, that only works if you are the administrator of your OJS site...)

Best wishes, and hope somebody will step in here and be able to answer your main question,
Kai

[philipl]

Kai,

Thanks for the reply. I thought I might have been posting to a long defunct location ....

I'm the journal manager (only journal on the system) so can't log in as system administrator. Not sure if that info is required. Hopefully someone will be along to tell me soon.

Philip

[jmacgreg]

Hi Philip,

To add to Kai's excellent advice, you can also find out your OJS version by looking at the HTML page source. So checking the HTML source to your home page I can see that you are running OJS 2.2.3 (which is an older, but very stable, version).

Regarding your question: what will happen when you delete that section is that any articles that were previously published to that section, in *all* published issues, will be unpublished. This is because the section they originally belonged to has been deleted, and there is no reasonable way for the system to know where to put them otherwise. Once unpublished, they should simply return to your editors' Editing queue, and can be republished from there, to any issue/section you would like.

Cheers,
James

[philipl]

Thanks - I understand now.

It sounds as though I shouldn't have used sections for what I wanted to do.

Is there - for future special issues - a way that I can set up the system so that authors notify us that they want to be considered for a special edition rather than just a normal issues.

Philip

[jmacgreg]

Hi Philip,

There isn't any way to do this currently, unfortunately. However this was very recently requested elsewhere (see viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9231&p=35812#p35812), and I think it makes for a good feature request. Added here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7979. Please feel free to CC yourself to that report for future updates.

Cheers,
James