[OJS-3.4.0-4] Incomplete submission display on top of unassigned and active tabs

[shantanusingh]

OJS-3.4.0-4
PHP-8.1

We have an upgrade from OJS-3.3.0-14 to OJS-3.4.0-4.

If the author leaves Incomplete Submission it will be displayed at the top of the Unassigned and Active tab. Because of this issue, unassigned tabs display some pendency and are not cleared.
Editors complain about having difficulty filtering articles from the list.

[shantanusingh]

Does anyone have any information about this ?

[shantanusingh]

Hi @asmecher @rcgillis @jonasraoni

Any ideas about this problem? This is making it problematic and inconvenient for editors to process the articles in the Unassigned and All Active tabs.

[asmecher]

@shantanusingh, you might want to follow this issue:

Tools to clean old incomplete submissions

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[shantanusingh]

Hi @asmecher Thanks for your reply.

What I mean to say is that in OJS-3.3 Incomplete submissions did not appear in the Unassigned tab, and all Incomplete submissions were shortlisted in Active tabs, and finally completed submissions were displayed on the top. But in OJS-3.4 Incomplete submissions are not shortlisted and appear in both the Unassigned and Active tabs.

[shantanusingh]

Hi @asmecher you can see the Unassigned tab, it is full of Incomplete submissions. I hope that Incomplete submissions should not be shown in the Unassigned tab.

[shantanusingh]

Hi @asmecher @Vitaliy

We are currently using OJS 3.4.0-8 and are trying to clean up our active log by removing incomplete submissions that are more than two years old.

However, when we attempt to open an incomplete submission by entering the article ID in the URL of a completed submission, we receive the following error message:

“Workflow access to incomplete submissions is restricted.”

Could you please suggest the best approach to remove or clean up these incomplete submissions in bulk?

[asmecher]

Hi @shantanusingh,

I would suggest using the tools/deleteSubmissions.php command-line tool. There will be a web-based tool for deleting incomplete submissions starting with 3.5.0.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[abadan]

You may want to try using this plugin:
https://github.com/lepidus/deleteIncompleteSubmissions

[shantanusingh]

Hi @asmecher Thank You for your reply.

I have tried as suggested, but nothing happened. The incomplete articles are still present in the system even after running the tools/deleteSubmissions.php command-line tool.

I have tried the plugin suggested by @abadan, and it is working. I was able to successfully clear the incomplete articles.

Thank you @abadan

[asmecher]

Hi @shantanusingh,

The correct usage for that tool would be (to delete two submissions by ID):

php tools/deleteSubmissions.php 125628 156253

Reagrds,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[shantanusingh]

Thanks @asmecher, Able to delete as suggested .