Where would we draw article publication date from to show that date automatically in an open issue TOC?

ScottAbbott · July 14, 2016, 5:39am

Hi,

In OJS, where would we draw article publication date data from to show that date automatically in an open issue Table of Contents?

We will be running open issues that will be published in, say, January but have articles added up to June then closed (then a new open issue covering July-December). We want to add articles to each issue as they are ready to speed up the publishing process for each article but also want to identify in the Table of Contents when each individual article is actually published.

We have looked at the User Home > Editor > Archives > Article Editing and gone to see “Date Published” but weren’t sure if this date came from Issue Data or from separate article specific data.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Scott

ctgraham · July 14, 2016, 11:54am

Assuming 2.4.x and a PublishedArticle object, as is the case with $article here:

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/templates/issue/issue.tpl#L14


* Copyright (c) 2013-2019 Simon Fraser University
* Copyright (c) 2003-2019 John Willinsky
* Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
*
* Issue
*
*}
{foreach name=sections from=$publishedArticles item=section key=sectionId}
{if $section.title}<h4 class="tocSectionTitle">{$section.title|escape}</h4>{/if}

{foreach from=$section.articles item=article}
	{assign var=articlePath value=$article->getBestArticleId($currentJournal)}
	{assign var=articleId value=$article->getId()}

	{if $article->getLocalizedFileName() && $article->getLocalizedShowCoverPage() && !$article->getHideCoverPageToc($locale)}
		{assign var=showCoverPage value=true}
	{else}
		{assign var=showCoverPage value=false}
	{/if}

	{if $article->getLocalizedAbstract() == ""}

The PublishedArticle has a getDatePublished() method:

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/classes/article/PublishedArticle.inc.php#L84


	 * @param $sectionId int
	 */
	function setSectionId($sectionId) {
		return $this->setData('sectionId', $sectionId);
	}

	/**
	 * Get date published.
	 * @return date
	 */
	function getDatePublished() {
		return $this->getData('datePublished');
	}

	/**
	 * Set date published.
	 * @param $datePublished date
	 */

	function setDatePublished($datePublished) {
		return $this->SetData('datePublished', $datePublished);

This corresponds to the article’s metadata regarding publication (as opposed to the Issue’s publication date).

ScottAbbott · July 14, 2016, 11:02pm

Thanks so much for your quick response @ctgraham!

I’ve passed that on to our IT Team.

All the best,

Scott