Set issue publication date in advance of publication

jhatherill
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:27:05 +0000
Feature Requests

When creating a Future Issue, you can set the Identification metadata for issue (Vol, No, Year, Title) but you cannot set the publication date.
This causes a small issue for editors/assistants who are uploading archives of back issues. Currently, they can set the Identification metadata, but then they have to publish the issue and edit it after to set the correct Publication Date. It’s a small workaround, but still annoying.

Describe the solution you’d like
Request to modify the Create Issue input form to include the Date Published field that the editor could select prior to publication which would reduce the need to edit the Issue Publication Date after publication. This is a feature already available for articles where you can set the publication date under the Issue tab.

Who is asking for this feature?
Journal editors and assistants moving archives onto OJS would have a better user experience.

Additional information
OJS 3.3.

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