User is having articles auto assign to their dashboard

I have a user who has a few roles in their journal, however they have noticed that some articles will auto assign to them and some don’t. I looked in the logs and didn’t see anything out of place. Does anyone have any insight?

What application are you using?
OJS 3.3.0.14

Hi @sjackson,

A likely possible explanation is that they are assigned as a section editor, which is causing them to automatically be assigned to receive articles from that section: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/3.3/en/journal-setup#edit-a-section ? Could you check that this is/is not the case?

-Roger
PKP Team

Hello RC,

The user doesn’t have section editor as a role. She has journal editor,production editor, and copy editor.

Hi @sjackson,

If you go to the section for which the articles are submitted to in Journal - Settings - (and then Edit the particular section) - do you see them listed there? They may be still listed there despite not having an explicit role of section editor assigned.

-Roger
PKP Team

Hi Roger,

Checking that section I don’t see their name as one to assign.

Hi @sjackson,

Thanks for clarifying. I’m out of ideas as to what to suggest here, but I’ll see one of our other team members can weigh in when they have the opportunity.

-Roger
PKP Team

Hi @sjackson,

In OJS 3.3.0-x and prior, if there was ever only a single user assigned to a journal role like Copyeditor, Proofreader, etc., they were automatically assigned. When there are 2 or more users in a role, that behavior will not happen.

This behaviour has been removed starting with OJS 3.4.0.

See for details: If you create a new role with JM permissions, they are automatically assigned to all new submissions · Issue #7103 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hello Alec,

There are multiple users with those roles and in this particular journal at least 9 JMs. This user does have a few more roles than the other JMs so that could be why OJS is auto assigning.

Thanks

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