Hi,
After upgrading to OJS3 I noticed that the submission notes no longer support file attachments. Basically all files exist in note
folder under each submission, but the files are not accessible in OJS.
I did some digging around and the note files are also present in the submission_files
table and they seem to have file_stage
“3” set for them. However, in the notes
table there is no mention about files anymore like there used to be in OJS2.
So, is there a plan to make those notes files accessible again? If not, should they be visible at least in the submission library section? Now all journals that have used notes to save article related data in files won’t be able to access the files anymore.
A simple solution would be to add a link to all notes with a file attached during the upgrade process ($$$call$$$/api/file/file-api/download-file?fileId=X&submissionId=Y
) and you could just instruct the journals to use the submission library to similar purposes later.
Or alternatively you could move the notes files straight to the submission library during the upgrade to OJS3 and then create the links to the old notes.
EDIT: I noticed that the contents of submission library is visible for the author, so that is not an option if a journal wants to save files containing information not meant for the author. And if I understand lines 30-32 in InformationCenterHandler.inc.php
correctly authors also have access to submission notes now? So where would you add those kinds of files in OJS3?
The same issue mentioned also here:
(just a side note, why are submission library files under a separate contexts
folder?)