Section editor is assigned automatically in OJS 3.0.2

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Hi,

if there is only one section editor, s/he ist assigned to a new submission automatically even if s/he is not assigned to the section the submission is assigned to.

Is this a bug or is it done on purpose? Automatically assigning managers and editors seems to be okay, but as section editors have restricted access, I would not expect such an automatic assignement.

best,
Carola

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Hi @carola,

Yes, that’s expected behavior. If you’d rather not have this occur, I’d suggest removing the section editor from the section’s list (but otherwise leaving them enrolled as a section editor). Alternately, add another section editor to the list; the single user situation is treated as a special case.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi @asmecher,

the one section editor there is is not assigned to any section. Still she is automatically assigned to any article submitted to section “Articles”.

best,
Carola

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Yes, that is the intended behaviour. I was wondering about the very same thing a few months back and was sure that it is a bug: [OJS] OJS 3.0: Section editor gets assigned to all submissions · Issue #1962 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

My solution was to assign a section editor role to the editor as well.

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Hi @carola,

Ah, my mistake – it looks like you’re right. I’ve filed this at Prevent section editor auto-assignments outside section assignments · Issue #2313 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub – please watch for a patch to appear there, and if you’re able, give it a try after code review and let me know whether it resolves the issue for you.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team