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

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

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

The PublishedArticle has a getDatePublished() method:

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

Thanks so much for your quick response @ctgraham!

I’ve passed that on to our IT Team.

All the best,

Scott