OJS: How to publish article online prior to publication of issue

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I am using it on 3.1.1.2 so it should work. If not, let me know. You should definitely upgrade to the latest version of OJS.

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Many thanks, @ajnyga! Duly noted.

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Hello, I upgraded installations of OJS to 3.1.1.4 and I think that you shoul dupgrade your plugin too.
Some editorial boards asked me to checkit so I think that there is a need for your plugin.

Thanks on your work and effort

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Greetings, @ajnyga,

I’ve upgraded to 3.1.1-4, then downloaded and added the “Forthcoming articles plugin for OJS 3.1.0.1” from GitHub - ajnyga/forthcoming: OJS3 plugin for showing forthcoming articles. It is now enabled in the list of plugins, but when I click on the blue “Schedule for Publication” button and select the upcoming issue, there is no “Show as forthcoming” checkbox.

Could you consider upgrading this plugin to the latest version? Million thanks in advance!

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Do you see any errors in the error log?

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I have this in php_error_log:

[29-Nov-2018 17:45:23 ] PHP Warning: Declaration of ForthcomingPlugin::register($category, $path) should be compatible with LazyLoadPlugin::register($category, $path, $mainContextId = NULL) in C:\xampp\htdocs\journal\plugins\generic\forthcoming\ForthcomingPlugin.inc.php on line 165

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Interestingly, while I can swear I did enable this plugin at the journal level, when I double-checked today, it was not selected. I enabled it and now I have a nice “Show as forthcoming” check box on the bottom of “Schedule for publication” pages.

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Dear @ajnyga, I put a checkmark in “Show as forthcoming” for a test article and selected our next issue in the “Schedule for publication” dropdown, but I don’t know where to find this article on our site. The readme says:

All articles with this selection will be shown in SITE/JOURNALNAME/forthcoming/,

but when I try to open it I have:

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

Error 404

Should a “forthcoming” folder be created under the DocumentRoot directory with index.php or index.html in it?

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Hi,

Depending on you OJS settings the url could be something like
http://site.com/index.php/journalname/forthcoming or
http://site.com/journalname/forthcoming

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A quick question on using this plugin @ajnyga will this cause any problem in OAI-MPH feed.
I mean Forthcoming” issue is visible in the OAI-PMH feed?

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Hi,

You can check to make sure, but the articles that show under forthcoming should not be visible in OAI-PMH. They will become visible once the issue they are assigned to is published. After that they should not show up in the forthcoming page.

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@ajnyga Hi, I am using forthcoming plugin just want to ask a question about order of articles in forthcoming issue.
1- currently, I have noticed that articles displayed in order of submission id. Is it possible to order the article by their publication date?
Thanks

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The plugin uses getBySetting https://github.com/pkp/ojs/blob/master/classes/article/ArticleDAO.inc.php#L66 to get the forthcoming articles and that is ordered by submissionId.

You could probably try ordering the array here forthcoming/ForthcomingHandler.inc.php at master · ajnyga/forthcoming · GitHub with these http://php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php

I would start by checking what the array looks like on row 63 with error_log(print_r($forthcoming, true));

This is all based on a quick look at the plugin, not 100% sure you can order the array there.

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Thanks for your continued support.

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@ajnyga
I am using Forthcoming plugin and I want to add some text in the forthcoming issue section by default it is showing only the world “Forthcoming”.
I want to add a small description like " Articles published online under the Forthcoming model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source" under the heading of Forthcoming as well.
Can you please guide me where, and which file I should add this text?

Sorry for my little knowledge of playing with the codes.
Thanks in advance

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With the Forthcoming plug-in (GitHub - ajnyga/forthcoming: OJS3 plugin for showing forthcoming articles) is there any issue with the DOIs (e.g., they are changed when the issue is completed) or is everything smooth?

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Hi @ajnyga I installed preprints plugin in OJS 3.2.0.3, but I can see an option to activate the function in the schedule section.

Some help

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Hello all,

I thought that this plugin would allow us to add approved articles into any issue available, as OJS 2 allowed us!
It was so much easier to publish an article before!
Once the article was approved, all we had to do is schedule it for publication, we didn’t have to wait for all the editing process to be concluded.
This way, ahead of print articles were available fast!
Now, besides this difficulty, we have to go through tree screens to upload a file
 not the best interface improvements in my opinion, especially because the file upload process has added very little improvement, just a lot more clicks


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Hello,

The main challenge is displaying the current issue alone, without recent (online first) content, similar to how commercial journals handle an “Online First” section. A simple solution, which I’ve implemented for my journal, is to add a “Recent Publications” tab on the main page, alongside “About” and “Current Issues.” This allows recent articles, ordered by date, to replace the need for an “Online First” plugin or a temporary issue.