Hi, a day ago one of our journals started having a problem with the reviewer list that appears when you start the “Add Reviewer” process. The list is empty.
No PHP errors are generated and the HTTP response seems fine.
I can see the reviewers fine in the users & roles page.
The issue is only happening to a single journal in our 20+ journal site. That leads me to believe it might be something related to reviewer data. Reviewing interests, perhaps? Tried to look into it but still haven’t found anything out of the ordinary(maybe a users reviewer interest is too large? Strange characters?).
The first thing I’d check is to see if there’s an entry in your user_groups table with context_id of that problematic journal and role_id of 4096, which is the reviewer role. If there is, make a note of the user_group_id and then check the user_user_groups table to see if any users are in it. That relation would indicate that there are users enrolled in that particular journal with the reviewer role. If there are, then maybe open those users up in the edit user interface and see if there are reviewer interests.
Yes, i can edit them just fine. Tried removing and adding back the reviewer role to see if anything changed, but no luck. I also found no problems entering current/archived reviews when “Logging as” any reviewer.
Did some more fiddling and found what i think is the source of the problem.
Went to the roles settings, unmarked reviewer’s role in the review column and remarked it.
Strange, sure. But happily, it is fixed.
Thanks again for the attention and help @jnugent.
Side question: What is the goal of having the reviewer role being able to be disabled like this?
