Allow negative values in review reminder day settings

Feature Requests
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In Workflow settings editors can give the number of days that needs to pass before the system will send an automatic reminder. We’ve had a request to enable the system to send a reminder before the due date. This could happen by allowing negative numbers (-3) in the setting field and the system would then take this into account.

I have not tested, but do not think this is possible at the moment pkp-lib/ReviewReminder.inc.php at main · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

Would this in general be an acceptable change in OJS?

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Hi @ajnyga this request is filed at [OJS/OMP] Ability to send review reminders prior to due date · Issue #5885 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub. I don’t think negative numbers are very intuitive, and I’d worry about additional confusion because we use a “truthy” check to evaluate the value (ie - 0 = don’t send a reminder, not send a reminder 0 days after due date), so I’d be hesitant to rush this in in that format.

I definitely think this is a common request, though.

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