Inactive sections appearing on front-end Submissions page OJS 3.5

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Describe the issue or problem
Inactive sections appearing on front-end Submissions page

What application are you using?
OJS 3.5 with the Pragma theme

Describe the issue
Inactive journal sections are still appearing on the front-end Submissions page (/about/submissions), even when:

  • The section is set as inactive
  • Submissions are disabled for the section
  • There is no section policy text entered

Each inactive section appears with a link to the submission dashboard, but clicking through correctly shows no option to submit under those sections there.

To reproduce

  1. In Settings > Journal > Sections, set a section as inactive and disable submissions
  2. Ensure no section policy text is entered for that section
  3. Visit the front-end Submissions page (/about/submissions)
  4. Inactive sections are visible with links to the submission dashboard

Expected behaviour
Inactive sections should not appear on the front-end Submissions page.

Additional information
This appears to be a regression of issue #10941 ([OJS] Section policies are shown for inactive sections on Submissions page (3.3) · Issue #10941 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub), which was fixed in OJS 3.3.0-22. In the original bug, inactive sections appeared only if they had section policy text. In OJS 3.5 they appear even with no section policy text entered.

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Took me a bit to check this one. This appears to be specific to the Pragma Theme (and most likely other themes). The Pragma template isn’t accounting for the hidden sections. I created a ticket for it here : [Reader View] | Journal section set inactive - About/Submissions page, after setting a journal section to be inactive it is still appearing on some themes · Issue #12542 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

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Hi @djjo, are you seeing this behaviour when logged in as a user with higher permissions, such as an admin or journal manager? Can you confirm the behaviour also happens when you are logged out completely?

5

Hi Kaitlyn, it happens logged in as an admin. And no, when I’m logged out the disabled sections aren’t displayed. Sorry this isn’t really an issue. Thank you for investigating.

Deborah