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3.60 - Action bar, simplified workflow actions

3 August 2022


- Behold the shiny quick actions bar: on the article page, critical actions and mails are now conveniently gathered at the top. Available actions are sorted by user, and will be relevant to your profile's rights and to the article status.

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- Several minor improvements on the article page:
    - the upper module has been compressed to save screen space
    - the style of pop-up windows has been uniformized
    - decision and mail history modules have received a long overdue makeover

 

- The sending of an e-mail is no longer mandatory to trigger critical actions such as:
    - editor assignments
    - referee invitations
    - proposals and decisions
This simplifies technical support, by allowing you to correct the article workflow unbeknownst to other users.

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- Article type switch and lock: as for custom fields in v3.30, the article type may now be updated automatically when sending an e-mail, by creating a rule in the mail template configuration. 
Furthermore, authors may now been prevented from modifying the article type on revisions. These two changes allow a tighter editorial control on the type of an article.