[OJS] Import Articles unpubliched

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Hi I use the native Import/Export Plugin to mass import Articles. Now I want some Articles not to be published but still imported. I can do that with whole issue like that:

<issue identification="blub" published="true">

Can I archive this for single Articles? The only thing I found is

 $node = $articleNode->getChildByName('open_access');
 $publishedArticle->setAccessStatus($node?ARTICLE_ACCESS_OPEN:ARTICLE_ACCESS_ISSUE_DEFAULT);

(line 870 in NativeImportDom.inc.php)

so I put

<open_access>true</open_access>

in my XML file, but it does not hide the article if this tag is omitted, so I guess this tag it’s something else?

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

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Hi @paf,

What version of OJS are you using?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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newest 2.4.8 commit …

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Hi @paf,

If an article is scheduled against a published issue, by definition it’ll be published. Alternately, if you schedule an article against an unpublished issue, it’ll be unpublished. I think you’re looking for something between the two, which OJS does’t currently support.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi @Asmecher,
thank you for your help!
in an allready published issue, I can set Schedule for publication manually to To be assigned to hide a single article in this issue. Can I force this state with the Importer-XML somehow?
Best, Paf

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The importer doesn’t currently support importing an article as To-Be-Assigned (though I think that would be a valid and useful option), but you could simulate it by grouping all of these “unpublished” articles under a single unpublished Issue. They would then appear together to the Editor as scheduled in an unpublished future issue.

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Hm. Can someone explain what this state of To-Be-Assigned is, technical spoken. I can add than this feature.

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I’m pretty confident that to-be-assigned means that the article does not yet have a published_articles database entry, which is what ties it to an issue.

This is just off the top of my head and not verified in the code, however.