Email Notification for new registered Reviewers

Software Support
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I have a Journal Manager that is switching to double bind reviews and will expand her database of reviewers. She would like to be notified every time a new subscriber adds him/herself as a reviewer.

Is there a way to configure an outgoing email for each new subscriber? Is there a way to add BCC to the outgoing email welcome message for newly registered reviewers?

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Hi @jamiefowlie,

There’s no way to do this without modifying OJS, but it wouldn’t be a large modification; if you have some PHP expertise, I could suggest where to start.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,

Yes I’m extremely comfortable working in PHP. Any headstart on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Jamie

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Hi @jamiefowlie,

User registration is implemented in classes/user/form/RegistrationForm.inc.php. In particular, have a look at the execute function. Look for the $allowedRoles variable – that section is responsible for assigning roles (e.g. the ROLE_ID_REVIEWER constant) to users per their selected roles.

To send an email, look at the example a little further down:

$mail = new MailTemplate('USER_VALIDATE');
...etc...

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team