Author missing from the copyediting stage

[Claudia2]

Good day
I am trying to figure out why the author is missing from the copyediting discussion stage? Only the editor and copyeditor show as participants when trying to start a discussion?
In another journal with the same settings, the author appears as a participant. We are following the same steps.
Can anyone advise what the problem could be?
thanks in advance

[rcgillis]

Hi @Claudia2,

Can you please indicate which version of OJS you are using (e.g. 3.3.0-13)?

Thanks,

Roger
PKP Team

[Claudia2]

Hi Roger
It’s version 3.3.0.13.
thanks.

[rcgillis]

Hi @Claudia2,

And, have you added the author to the participants along with the copyeditor and editor? I don’t know that this is done automatically (unless you’ve had a different experience?) Our documentation gives a bit more of an overview of this stage in case this is helpful: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/en/editorial-workflow#copyediting

-Roger
PKP Team

[Claudia2]

Hi Roger
I’ve compared the steps i follow on two different journal sites - the one shows the author as a participant automatically; the other doesn’t and also does not offer to add them in the drop down list as per below.

Thanks.

[rcgillis]

Hi @Claudia2

Hmmm… did you check the roles settings? If you go to Users & Roles and check to see if the author role has the checkbox selected for “Copyediting”? And after you’ve edited the settings, you could try again to see if that worked…

-Roger
PKP Team

[Claudia2]

This seems to have been the problem, thank you for that guidance!