On OJS 3 deleting submissions is a direct step?

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I noticed that deleting a submission on OJS 3 is as easy as ever, 2 clicks right in front of you. This makes me wonder if accidental deletions might happen considering we have 20 journals with a few dozen editors…

Is there a setting to make it a little less obvious?

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Hi @luizborges,

There’s discussion of the delete button being too prominent here: Deleting from submission list is too prominent and rarely used · Issue #2615 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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This is going on since 2017 and there was no step forward in any direction? Any reason why this hasn’t been done?

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Hi @luizborges,

We simply haven’t been able to prioritize it yet. Reports from users that accidental deletions are happening in practice would help (but code contributions etc. would be better – we’re a small team working to balance a lot of priorities).

Thanks,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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I will study how to implement that, but I’m not intimate with the codebase. I assume there is a way to check if a submission is Archived and based on that show one button or another. The archival/deletion are probably direct methods, right? Or is that an intricate process?