Attaching rules to templates



In Nestor, critical actions will trigger a message and update the article status / dates when necessary. There are also cases when sending an e-mail should trigger an update of the article data, such as the section, or typically, a custom field.

E-mail rules: a case study

Let us consider this case, where a journal has a special procedure to highlight good papers on the journal website. For this purpose, the editorial office keeps track of the procedure, by using an article custom field:

We want the above field to be set automatically to "proposal sent" when sending this message :

Resulting automatically in:

To do so, the Editorial Office can configure an update rule in the template configuration:

After saving the configuration, each time this e-mail is sent, the "Highlight paper" value of the article will be set to "highlight proposed".