Hello!
as a result of other tests we made, we understand that from OJS 3.2 onward, the automatic assignation of DOIs could be stopped by the requirement of connecting an article to an issue (see image below).
No server call, for DOI creation, is made during the submission, and when an issue is tied to the article (with Schedule for publication procedure) is probably too late (in previous OJS versions DOI was already created, and DOI plugin seems unchanged).
We can’t understand if this is a new logic or if it is a bug, maybe related to the versioning changes introduced in 3.2. If is a new logic, can someone (@bozana? @asmecher?) explain it?
There’s no reason to manually check the DOI creation/assignation, and is not clear why DOIs are still automatically created for issues (see [OJS.3.2.1-2] DOIs are not assigned automatically to submissions before scheduling to a future issue) but not for articles …
We used OJS testdrive to check the situation in OJS current version, and it looks like nothing has changed from 3.2
Thanks,
Best regards