OMP: Adding a contributor without an e-mail address?

I am trying to publish a book that is a translation of work by Georges Clemenceau. To the best of my knowledge, M. Clemenceau does not have a valid e-mail address. I can’t seem to figure out a way to add him as the author of the book.

(This is in the latest working version of OMP.)

More generally, it would be nice for an author’s agent to be able to add the author as a contributor, without necessarily turning them into an OMP user account.

I’ll add that I did manage to fake this by just reusing my e-mail address for the original author and for the translator; OMP did not seem to complain about the redundant e-mail addresses.

Now, however, I’m faced with the problem of taking the administrator account off of the list of authors. The “In Browse Lists” box is checked, and cannot be unchecked. It does not seem a valid assumption that the uploader of a book is a contributor.

Hi @crism,

Currently email addresses are required; eventually we’ll relax that requirement, but for the moment, the best approach is to either use an editorial address or a no-reply address.

Note that author records and user records are different; if you edit the metadata for the submission (e.g. where the title and abstract are listed), you’re editing author records, not user records. It shouldn’t be necessary to have a 1:1 correspondence between the two.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Thanks, @asmecher. I did get the other authors added, using my own e-mail address; thanks for clarifying that that doesn’t create new users.

Now, how do I detach the admin user (who just uploaded the thing) as an author?

Hi @crism,

When you say you want to detach the admin user, do you mean that you don’t want them listed in the metadata as an author of the submission, or that you don’t want them to be the point of contact for workflow activity?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

@asmecher, I want to unlist the admin as an author. It’s fine for that account to still be the point of contact. However, I can’t get “In Browse Lists” to uncheck for them.

In fact, now that I play with it a bit more, I can’t edit the existing contributors in any way. If I’d made a typo in someone’s name, I don’t see a way to fix it (other than, I suppose, to edit the database directly). I can’t uncheck “In Browse Lists” for anyone, nor change them at all.

Hi @crism,

Hmm, that sounds unusual. Do you see anything in your server’s error log? If you’re running Firebug, do you see an error message in the server response when you try to save the change?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

There’s nothing in the error log, nor is there anything to save…

In the Catalog Entry pop-up, on the Monograph tab, in the List of Contributors section, there are three contributors listed. They all have “In Browse Lists” checked; admin, the last, has “Primary Contact” checked. I can click on Order and rearrange them; I can click on Add Contributor to add a new one.

However, the cursor does not change, nor can I usefully click, on any part of a contributor listing.

This is looking more like a bug, and less like a question… I’ll poke deeper at it.

Hi @crism,

Is this on the master branch, or the OMP 1.1.1 release?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Yes, this is on HEAD, updated today (though the problem was noticed last week).

Well, for starters, the use of id="isChecked" on multiple different div elements is probably not helping with selectors.

And div href="#" isn’t a good idea, either. I’ll try cleaning this stuff up and see if it helps.

Hi @crism,

I recall seeing a problem with the chapters grid where actions weren’t being displayed. Let me know how far you get, and I’ll take over from there.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Sure… filed as [OMP] Can’t edit contributors to a book · Issue #1106 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub.