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  Overview From the dashboard, clicking on a status will lead you to the list of articles matching the status: From this list, you can reach any article just by clicking on the reference. Articles with red statuses have their due date exceeded: Cus...

Depending on your workflow needs, your journal can use very specific labels for decisions. Some decisions will be related to scientific corrections, others may be related to copyediting or language corrections. In Nestor those labels are called "recommendation...

Creating an e-mail template is straightforward, just click here: You will be prompted with the template creation form, where you first must select an event. It is very important to select the correct event, as the system will use your template only when t...

All templates linked to your journal are stored in the templates configuration: Existing templates are sorted: First, by recipient. Each family of recipient gets a thumbnail, where all templates are stored for this family: ...

In Nestor, all users are considered potential authors or referees. Consequently, author and referee profiles are unique. For a given journal: when submitting a paper, all users will share the configuration of the author profile when reviewing a paper, all ...

Contrary to the author and referee profile, editor profiles are not unique. It is very common for a journal to configure several profiles, with different sets of rights. The reason is that editor profiles are used by people with different tasks as regards arti...

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Important e-mails are sometimes lost in the crowd and overlooked by editors. This is especially true for e-mails outside of the workflow, dealing with particular cases etc. Notifications are here to prevent this! Nestor tracks e-mails tagged as "important" a...

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 ...

Writing in progress...    ↁ_ↁ Any enquiries? please contact us:  support@nestor-edp.org Modifying date formats {{ "now"|date("m/d/Y") }} Test variables   {% if article.articleType.code == 'LETTER' %}letter{% else %}paper{% endif %} {% if articleEnti...

Nestor uses a programming language to generate text in messages. You can harness this and use branching conditions in your templates: https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/tags/index.html. The configuration is a bit technical, but will result in: modulable texts...

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Custom fields are a way to categorize articles in any way besides standard categorizations. They can be quite simple (text, date etc.), or they can be used to create special options related to your journal. For a specific article, custom fields are available ...

The advanced search is available through two buttons in your interface: Criteria, operators and groups The advanced search allows you to look for articles by combining several criteria with AND and OR operators. To add a criteria, click on the (+) icon:...

Flags are symbols displayed on articles, to help editors to identify important information. They are visible both in articles pages and in articles lists. Flags on the article page Flags in article lists In article pages, flags are displayed in th...

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The quick actions toolbar is located in the upper part of the article page. It contains quick shortcuts to manage the article. Note that available actions will depend on:  the article status your own editor profile (see rights) For instance if the ar...

To grant an editor access to someone, you must first access the user page. Just click on someone's name in an article or in search results: In the user account page, you may simply assign the editor profile here:

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A brief explanation of statuses In your author dashboard, the workflow has been divided into functional steps (who is working on the articles). Your to-do list focuses on articles expecting an action from you. To-do list Back to author Arti...