Empty discussions

Describe the issue or problem
Hello everyone, we are facing a recurring situation:

Someone opens a discussion and don’t go ahead with it probably closing the browser tab without canceling or completing the new discussion.

A new register is created in the queries table, so that an empty discussion is shown, causing some confusion.

Why is a new register created in the queries table before the discussion is saved? Do you intend to change this behavior in the future?

Steps I took leading up to the issue
For example:

  1. Someone add a discussion in any step of the workflow
  2. This person closes the browser tab without concluding or canceling the discussion
  3. An empty discussion (2 lines) is shown

What application are you using?
OJS 3.4.0.1

Hi @liviagouvea,

These are caused by an intentional work-around to our old UI toolkit; in certain circumstances (such as this modal) it’s necessary to have an ID to attach to nested content to. This reqiurement (and the risk of creating empty entries) will go away soon, probably with the additions we’re making to the discussions toolset for OJS/OMP/OPS 3.6.0.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Great! Thanks for the reply, @asmecher !

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