4.00 - Author and referee dashboards, mail template filters
6 December 2022
Major updates
- Referee interface
At long last, referees now have access to their completed reports.
- Mail configuration: user events can now trigger automatic messages in parallel.
At the moment, the feature is limited to editor assignment:
- the EIC assigns and contact an editor to handle an article
- in parallel, the author receives an automatic warning, so that he knows the article is being handled.
We intend to generalize this feature to other events.
For example, acceptance/rejection could trigger automatic thank you mails to referees.
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas by replying to this message.
- Mail configuration: filter available messages according to editor profile.
Nestor was designed so that editors have only access to mail templates relevant to their profile rights.
However, we realized access to a template is sometimes linked to the profile, not to any right in particular.
This is particularly relevant for templates with no direct impact on workflow, such as free letters.
For this reason, some events now offer the possibility to restrict access of the template according to the profile.
- Performance optimization
Page loading times have been improved in the whole system.
This will be felt especially when your dashboard is heavily crowded, or if your journal has a lot of articles.
Minor updates
- Pending submissions
Pending submissions are now accessible via advanced search. They will appear with a "pending" reference. Those submissions are being edited by the author, be careful when you access them!
- Inactive editors rights
As of 4.00, inactive editors will not benefit from administration rights attached to their profile. They will keep the benefit of article-related rights.
This is useful when an EIC steps down, but needs to finish working on his last articles.
- Mail configuration: HTML deeplinks
We have prepared new variables to insert in mail templates.
When used, these variables will generate a *clickable* article link to the recipient of the message. This will save a few copy/pastes.
