Tool: e-mail rules

In Nestor, critical actions will trigger a message and update the article status / dates when necessary.

But this it is sometimes not sufficient: there are 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:

When sending this message to the author, we want the field above to be set automatically to "Proposal sent":

Resulting in the article data:

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

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