Describe the issue or problem
I’have only 1 active review form but on the “Add Reviewer” dialog the section editor has still the option to select from two review form.
I don’t want to give the option to select the “None / Free Form Review”.
I can set my own form as default but that is not enough. I want to achieve that the section editor can’t able select a different form than what I set as default or just remove this selection from the dialog at all - as I generates confusion and question from the section editors.
Steps I took leading up to the issue
When there is a new submission in Review status and the section click on “Add Reviewer” button, on the “Add Reviewer” dialog, after selection a reviewer, there is an option to select “Review Form”. I don’t need that option.
I was referring to “Review Form” selection so the subject is wrong sorry - but an additional question would be how to remove or disable the “Review Type” selecton on “Add Reviewer” dialog as I don’t want to allow the Section editors to use other than the default
Unfortunately I can’t disable / hide the ‘None / Free Form Review’ from the Review Form - and I would like to avoid that the section editors chooses the wrong one.
I am having the same issue with the “None/Free Form Review” item. Despite what @rgillis has said in this query as well as a similar query in 2021, there is no way to deselect this choice in the “Workflow Settings”/“Review”/“Review forms” which only displays and allows selection of the editable forms, as @Zsombor as illustrated.
Since this choice is at the top of the pulldown menu, it can and has been selected instead of our mandatory questionnaire. I can’t seem to find where this is set in the code itself so am helpless to remove it myself. Can anyone give me any guidance on this, please?
Yes - you’re right, so far as I can tell, there’s not an easy way to exclude the “None/Free Form Review” item. I also just tested this in version 3.4 and it doesn’t appear to have gone away. I don’t think this is editable and would require a modification of the core code to not include it - however, messing with the core code could have unintended consequences, but I could see if our developers could recommend how to go about it, if it’s something you’re comfortable doing?
Thank you for your instant response! Actually, I’m comfortable with modifying the code, if the developers can tell me what to modify. I searched the code and couldn’t find anywhere that it was mentioned. I even looked at the “en” locale file, thinking that I could simply rename the option to something like “Do not use” but that language bit wasn’t there. Quite a mystery!
If you’d like to disable the “free-form” review form, so it can’t be selected by the editor when assigning a review, edit lib/pkp/templates/controllers/grid/users/reviewer/form/reviewerFormFooter.tpl and find the line:
The modification would render the built-in review form (which is used by most journals) unavailable, so no, we wouldn’t make the change to the software officially.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
