How to remove Updated On Date besides the Published Date

[Mohamed_Abdelrazek]

Describe the issue or problem
When I published the article, an updated date occurred along with the published date as the following screenshot:

In the dashboard, the article has two versions; one of them is the published version and the other one is unpublished. Please see the following screen:

The issue date looks as follows:

I need to remove the “Updated On” date. Can anyone help to resolve this issue?

What application are you using?
OJS 3.4.0.8

[rcgillis]

Hi @Mohamed_Abdelrazek,

The easiest way to do this might be through using a custom stylesheet, where you identify the element that hosts the “updated on” element and set it to display: none;, it will still be there but not show up on your site.

-Roger
PKP Team

[Mohamed_Abdelrazek]

Hi @rcgillis,

Thank you for your response. Are there any published guidelines on how to do this?

[rcgillis]

Hi @Mohamed_Abdelrazek,

Yes - not editing this field particularly, but making small CSS modifications, to display/remove particular visual elements: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/designing-your-journal/en/creating-stylesheet

-Roger

[Mohamed_Abdelrazek]

Hi @rcgillis
Sorry for bothering you, but is there any other methods to delete the version from the database specially that it is not a correct version and was mistakenly created. It has no useful data at all. I need to just remove it.
As you can see in the screenshots, the publication date is the same of the updated on date.
I hope there will be other simple solutions rather than creating a new css stylesheet.

[Mohamed_Abdelrazek]

Hi @rcgillis,
The developer tools show the elements as follows:

Could you please guide me more on how the custom style sheet should include?
I would highly appreciate your assistance.
Thanks,
Mohamed

[rcgillis]

Hi @Mohamed_Abdelrazek,

Are you able to provide a link to your site so I can have a closer look?

-Roger
PKP Team

[Mohamed_Abdelrazek]

Thanks @rcgillis
I have fixed the issue. For documentation purposes, I would like to explain what happened and
what I have done to fix it:

In my case, a second version was created mistakenly, I do not know by whom, and the second version was the one that includes the publication details. So, when I published it, the system understood it as an updated version, not the original published version.

So, I had to delete the publication details from the second version and I moved all the publication details to the first version of the article.

Along with this, I have uploaded the CSS style sheet as per your advice.

By doing this, the article has a proper publication date without an update date.

I hope there will be more authority to journals’ admins on the versions of the article in the next release of OJS.

Thank you so much for your concern.

Best regards,

Mohamed