I want to delete incomplete submissions from the submission que as a journal manager. There use to be an option to delete these incomplete submissions. After upgrading to OJS 3.3.0.3, I can not find this option. Please see the screenshot.
Is this option removed in OJS 3.3.0.3 or it is a bug.
Thanks
It seems to me that this is not a nice new feature in OJS. Authors very often do not understand the article submission interface (or for other reasons) stop trying to submit and such âwidow submissionsâ constantly annoy the eyes of editors. It takes some time to complete the above three steps for each such unfinished submisson. But the main thing is that it looks extremely redundant for performing a simple (although not often required) action - deleting empty article. I donât know where to find the best place for the delete button, but now the sequence of actions looks strange.
And note⊠for example, in my case I do not have access to my server through Terminal and I cannot run tools/deleteSubmissions.php in the command line.
Deleting such incomplete submission feature is to be bring back, I think. If the Journal Editors do the above mentioned â3 stepsâ, author may get a notification that their submission has been received by journal office and so on (of course Editors can restrict some of those communications from being sent). But deleting incomplete submissions was a useful feature.
Dear @kksabu
The site administrator and journal managers can still delete incomplete submissions by using âLogin Asâ function. But it might take a little longer time since it requires to log in as the user for each submission.
Best regards,
Hi all, I am also running into trouble with this with an editor who has some incomplete submissions and is struggling with removing them (using OJS 3.3.0.6). If an option to delete incomplete submissions could be available, even for authors, that would be great.
Hi, I would like to add my support for having the option to delete incomplete submissions in 3.3 and above. We are currently running 3.1.2 and planning our 3.3 upgrade. A journal editor had uploaded some back issue content in 3.1.2 and in the process generated some incomplete submissions. Having the delete option allowed them to clear irrelevant items in their queue. In 3.3 they would have to complete the entire submission, assign themselves as editor, decline and then delete. This is a long workaround for getting rid of pesky incomplete submissions. Thanks for considering!