Ordering in OCS Presentations not working

Freyni · February 19, 2016, 9:25am

The ordering arrows on the Presentations list under Submissions do not work on OCS. I assume you click once and the presentation moves one up or down, but they just randomly move the presentations. Please advise? Thanks!

asmecher · February 22, 2016, 4:15pm

Hi @Freyni,

What version of OCS are you using?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Freyni · February 23, 2016, 8:45am

Hi Alec. I’m using Open Conference Systems 2.3.6.0. Thanks! Freyni

Freyni · February 25, 2016, 8:35am

Hi Alec, do you have any possible solutions for me? Thanks, Freyni

asmecher · February 25, 2016, 6:12pm

Hi @Freyni,

Please be patient; we’re a small team and can’t always get to your posting within a day or two.

Try applying the patch linked here:

github.com/pkp/pkp-lib

Accepted presentations list sorting is unhelpful for reordering

opened 06:10PM - 25 Feb 16 UTC

closed 06:12PM - 25 Feb 16 UTC

asmecher

See http://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ordering-in-ocs-presentations-not-working/8567/2 f…or details. The published presentations list is displayed by track, ordered by presentation sequence. The director's list of accepted presentations permits ordering, but does not display in the same ordering, making the ordering tools seem random. We need to support sorting options within the "accepted" list, but make the ordering tool useful, so suggest making the "by track" sorting secondarily sort by publication sequence. That way the up/down arrows can be used under the "by track" sorting to behave as expected. Need additionally to have the sort options stick across reorders. Not a perfect solution but workable.

Once applied, you’ll be able to click the “Track” column to sort by track. Thereafter the ordering arrows should work as expected. There’s a bit more detail on this in the linked issue.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Freyni · February 26, 2016, 8:34am

Thank you!! Will try to do this and let you know. I’ll be patient from now on

Freyni · March 2, 2016, 8:32am

Hi Alec - just a update that the patch worked, thank you!

mendesrocha · August 8, 2016, 12:55am

hi!

I am also dealing with ordering issues in the accepted submissions paper list in director’s page. The conference director wants papers to be sorted by author’s last name. So, we tried doing this by, firstly, sorting papers by a single track and secondly, clicking in “Author”'s link placed in head of the column and then, papers get ordered by author’s last name. However, this change does not affect the Presentation and Author’s page (schedConf/presentations) available for readers.

Is there anyway to automatically order paper by author’s last name in each track? Since, doing this by clicking on the up/down arrows would be too time-consuming. There are 310 accepted papers in the conference.

I implemented the patch mentioned in this post (github issue #1193) but did not worked for that.

Is it too tricky to implement the drag-and-drop tool for this table? As seen elsewhere in the OxS environment?

asmecher · October 28, 2016, 6:29pm

Hi @mendesrocha,

Apologies for the delay in responding. We’re determining what to do about OCS – please consider filling out this survey – but for the moment it’s not getting a lot of attention. (My preference would be for us to determine what OCS provides that’s not already met by other parts of the free software ecosystem – hence the survey – and if they’re sufficient, to consider tackling an OJS 3.0-style rewrite, but that’ll have major resourcing implications.)

Meanwhile, perhaps the best way to easily do what you want is to work with the database directly. You can probably accomplish the sorting you want with a single UPDATE query. The seq column of each table determines sequencing of papers, tracks, etc.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

mendesrocha · December 7, 2016, 8:12pm

Hi @asmecher ,

I’ve shared the survey with the heads of a couple of scientific association im Brazil that depend on OCS. They are looking forward to OCS resume its development.