[OJS 3.1.2.4] Automatically assigning a user with assistant permission to new submissions

[marc]

I arrive sooo late to this post.

@Marie-Helene just in case you still like to know (or for others like me that find this conversation useful), this is how role_id works:

Collaborative list of spam user patterns

A quite usual petition is making a DB extraction of the platform users including roles. To do this you can use Clinton’s query (see “C. To describe user activity in order to identify suspect users (for ojs 2.x)” but you will get a number instead of a role name. This number is the decimal equivalence for the different rolenames (coded in binary) and in 2.x branches would be something like: Role Name role_id Admin 1 Journal Managers 16 Editors 256 Section Editors 512 Layout Edit…

Cheers,
m.