Hi-

First, thank you for creating this module, which is more flexible than OJS and will allow us to do more customization.

I have installed EJournal to create a new creative writing journal at www.as.miami.edu/mangrove. I'm working on the administration to set it up, and am very confused by a few things. We will use EJournal for everything-- the author will submit work for consideration through Drupal, and first, the work will be reviewed by two or three readers. If approved, the work will be considered by one or two editors, and, if approved by the editor(s), finally reviewed by the editor-in-chief and published. Here are my questions so far:

1. taxonomy and roles-- We will separate the journal into genres, such as poetry and fiction. So I have created these taxonomies for the author to submit under the appropriate genre. Is there any way to make sure only the Poetry Readers get sent notification of new work in the Poetry genre? I don't really care if they have access to the fiction and other genres, but it would be easier if they didn't. Is it better to create different Content types and Roles and create it this way?

2. permissions- What's the difference between "ejournal editor" and "ejournal1 editor" in terms of permissions or workflows?

3. workflow- Do I need to add the "workflow module" or is there a way to control workflow through ejournal?

4. E-mail- I've looked at other support tickets and forum topics, and there seems to be a way to control who gets e-mail...but I can't find this in the Administration section. Where is it?

I'm sure I will have a few more questions as I keep working...in case it helps, I have created an "author" username with the same password and an "editor" username with the same password to test out the roles as I have set them.

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romca commented

Hi,

first of all, thanks for your comment on OJS - this is how I perceive the role of the ejournal module and I am glad to see that more people (just recently ;-) see Drupal as an kind-of-a replacement for OJS. I fully share this view. If you happen to have some spare time to document which modules/functionality you are using together with ejournal, it could help them to go the same road.

now to your questions:

1. taxonomy and roles-- We will separate the journal into genres, such as poetry and fiction. So I have created these taxonomies for the author to submit under the appropriate genre. Is there any way to make sure only the Poetry Readers get sent notification of new work in the Poetry genre? I don't really care if they have access to the fiction and other genres, but it would be easier if they didn't. Is it better to create different Content types and Roles and create it this way?

-- currently you can set one e-mail address per journal. I would not be very surprised if Drupal already had some module to the conditional-notifications, but an easy way to accomplish what you want is this:
a) create a special e-mail account (say mangrove@miami.edu)
b) configure ejournal to send e-mails to this account
c) create forwarding filters at mangrove@miami.edu - ie. if body has "name_of_section" forward to: xxxx

2. permissions- What's the difference between "ejournal editor" and "ejournal1 editor" in terms of permissions or workflows?

"ejournal editor" can be the editor for all your journals whilst "ejournal1 editor" can get access only to the ejournal with id=1. This settings has sense if you have (or plan to have) more journals inside your Drupal installation

3. workflow- Do I need to add the "workflow module" or is there a way to control workflow through ejournal?

i wanted to add the workflow module but i never really found time to finish it - now the Drupal6 has its own workflow. to be clear: not, you don't need to add it, it is not finished, it will have no effect

4. E-mail- I've looked at other support tickets and forum topics, and there seems to be a way to control who gets e-mail...but I can't find this in the Administration section. Where is it?

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culvekd commented

Thanks for your quick reply-- I have been at it again today and have a few more questions.

First, let me just document that the modules that we are currently using are Help, Menu, Taxonomy, EJournal, and SMTP e-mail...that's it. We are considering upgrading to Drupal 6 in order to integrate Workflow. And once the project is up and fully functional, I will happily document the Workflow process and the way I set up Ejournal to help other users.

Now to my questions:

1. Author Taxonomy- I don't really understand this feature. I set up a Category "Authors" and assigned it under Ejournal module, but when I go to Mangrove and click the "Authors" setting it says I haven't set up any roles that include "Ejournal author," even though my user Author is set up as Role Author with permissions as "Ejournal-1 author."

2. Is there a way for Authors to NOT be able to manage the issue? When I sign in as "Author," Ejournal shows up as a Menu option, and when I click on it, it allows the user to see all upcoming issues and manage. Since we will ask all authors to submit work for consideration through Drupal, I don't want them to have this access. Currently, under the "Author" role, permissions are restricted to "ejournal-1 author," "create piece content," ("piece" is a new node type I set up for the journal) and "change own username." I tried moving the menu item "Ejournal" under "Administer>Content Management" to try to hide it, but this didn't work.

3. On a related note, is there any way for authors to be able to see a list only of what they have submitted? When I log in as an author, I can see the entire list of submitted pages and pieces, and although I can't see their content, it would be better if I was limited to my own content.

Thanks again for all of your hard work!

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romca commented

ad 1) the way ejournal connects author accounts with author taxonomy term is described in the README (i believe ;-))
but basically, user account must have "ejournal author" permission - and, in the second step, in the Authors tab, you connect the accounts with taxonomies - ie. you say, user with id "jackd" has the taxonomy entry DANIELS, Jack (Ph.D.)

ad 2) mea culpa, i thought it has been fixed already - probably it was, somewhere else. i will look into it. But please try the link as an author, does it work - can you *really* manage the journal?

ad 3) has been requested before, and should be added (both to Drupal5 and 6) - dont hold you breath though, this is going to be a bit complicated with the access module [a basic views can be done with a "views module" - i recommend it to you attention]

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culvekd commented

Just a few more--

re: 2) yes- the author can change from published to unpublished, can change the date for future publication, etc.

Will this module work with Drupal 6 if I upgrade? That may be a silly question for someone who can't code, but I figured I'd ask :)

Again, thanks. I will take the time to document all of my setup to post to help the project.

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romca commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

@culvekd - it will work, but you probably know it already ;)

closing old issues