How to reset a submission to the unassigned queue?

ramon · May 10, 2016, 5:37pm

Hello all,

There’s probably something I’m missing, but I need to restore a couple of articles that went directly to the Editing stage to the unassigned stage.

Is that possible through OJS or only clearing database records?

asmecher · May 10, 2016, 6:26pm

Hi @ramon,

On the submission’s Summary page, try removing all Editor/Section Editor assignments.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

ramon · May 10, 2016, 7:00pm

Hello @asmecher,

The submission was already accepted.
Removing the editors has no effect.

Another team member, as Editor, made the submission and claims that both submissions (only 2 of over 20 that she performed) went directly into Editing without anyone doing anything.

This is one article’s status on the DB:
status = 1
submission_progress = 0
current_round = 1
fast_tracked= 0

asmecher · May 10, 2016, 8:55pm

Hi @ramon,

What version of OJS are you running?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

ramon · May 10, 2016, 9:18pm

Hi @asmcher,

sorry for the lack of info:

OJS version 2.4.8.0

asmecher · May 11, 2016, 4:56pm

Hi @ramon,

See this code for the fetch of the unassigned submissions list:

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-2_4_8-0/classes/submission/editor/EditorSubmissionDAO.inc.php#L395..L405


	 * @param $editorId int
	 * @param $searchField int Symbolic SUBMISSION_FIELD_... identifier
	 * @param $searchMatch string "is" or "contains" or "startsWith"
	 * @param $search String to look in $searchField for
	 * @param $dateField int Symbolic SUBMISSION_FIELD_DATE_... identifier
	 * @param $dateFrom String date to search from
	 * @param $dateTo String date to search to
	 * @param $rangeInfo object
	 * @return array EditorSubmission
	 */
	function &getEditorSubmissionsUnassigned($journalId, $sectionId, $editorId, $searchField = null, $searchMatch = null, $search = null, $dateField = null, $dateFrom = null, $dateTo = null, $rangeInfo = null, $sortBy = null, $sortDirection = SORT_DIRECTION_ASC) {
		$result =& $this->_getUnfilteredEditorSubmissions(
			$journalId, $sectionId, $editorId,
			$searchField, $searchMatch, $search,
			$dateField, $dateFrom, $dateTo,
			'a.status = ' . STATUS_QUEUED . ' AND ea.edit_id IS NULL',
			$rangeInfo, $sortBy, $sortDirection
		);
		$returner = new DAOResultFactory($result, $this, '_returnEditorSubmissionFromRow');
		return $returner;
	}

It stipulates that submissions should be queued (STATUS = 1), and that no editor assignments should exist. Otherwise it follows the normal conventions for other queue fetches.

The behavior you describe (the submission jumping directly to editing) sounds strange, too. Is it possible that these went in using QuickSubmit rather than the normal submission process? Are there any modifications to the system?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

ramon · May 11, 2016, 6:31pm

Hello @asmecher,

This is pretty much a stock 2.4.8 install.
No customizations were made to that kind of code, only embellishments on header.tpl, css template, and a few block plugins.

It was weird too, that only those 2 were sent to editing directly.

I believe that an unintentional click on that Quick submit button happened in this case. Since there’s no record of that on the system, that I know of… I just know that an editor with author profile took the decision.