QuickSubmit plugin enhancements and bugs meta issue

[ewhanson]

This meta issue is a collection of currently outstanding issues related to bugs, feature suggestions, UI/UX changes, and enhancements for the QuickSubmit plugin as of November 2021.

Some common threads and priorities identified from the following issues include:

• How submission object creation within the QuickSubmit plugin is handled
• Assigned publication dates not working as expected or desired
• Requested changes to author metadata requirements

Previously filed Issues

Enahncements and UI/UX Improvements

These include desired changes to existing behaviour and workflow as well as added functionality.

• Refactor QuickSubmit to use new submission wizard #7229
  • Contingent on completion of Improve submission wizard accessibility and usability #7191
• Incomplete submission created by Quicksubmit #7224
  • Necessary behaviour for current architecture but could be refactor
• Can't set the publication date of an issue before it is published #7165
• Visual glitch that appears sometimes while navigating #6652
• Ability to bulk-delete old incomplete submissions  #6528
  • Related to creation of incomplete submissions
• Add categories selection to QuickSubmit plugin #6125
• QuickSubmit plugin publication date picker unusable for very old years #5823
• [OJS] Modify submission date using QuickSubmit plugin #5418
• Reset article publication dates in issue #5131
• Remove email requirement for authors/contributors #3561
• QuickSubmit-Plugin: Emphasize the upload of PDFs #7394

Bugs

These include functionality that does not work as intended or restricts usage of the plugin.

• Quicksubmit cover image preview is broken #6927
• getPubId() method only partly working in OMP and OJS #6294
• Not possible to see or select publication language after submission #5502

Issues identified in previous versions

These include issues that outline behaviour present in previous versions that require confirmation on whether these issues persist.

• QuickSubmit plugin abstract requirement status check should depend on section #2644
• Add search/autocomplete feature to QuickSubmit permitting quick entry of recurring authors #2246
• QuickSubmit plugin increments submission ID by 2 for each submission #4950
• [OJS 3.1.2] QuickSubmit: Changing a locale may trigger error 500 in Multilingual Journal #4621
• [OJS] Introduce "Publish only" mode to OJS/OMP to simplify workflow #3639
• Errors in QuickSubmit form entry require re-entry of keywords #2645

[mpbraendle]

@NateWr 3.6 milestone? Wait another three years to fix some essential problems (e.g. #2644 , that exists since 2017 )?

[NateWr]

When this work can be done depends on our priorities and capacity. Our priorities are a mixture of user requests and grant funding for specific projects. You can see an overview of the development schedule in our roadmap.

This is one of those that we really wanted to get into 3.5, but couldn't justify scheduling it in given our current capacity.

[jonasraoni]

At the #7709, we've got an issue related to the #6011.
The current code is using the following check to consider if the submission is not imported submission.date_submitted < publication.date_published, but valid cases might escape from it (a submission created and published on the same day).

I've suggested to add a is_imported field. Another alternative would be to check if the submission has at least one decision, but OPS would fail, as it publishes the submission without creating an accepted decision.

Extra:
I didn't inspect the reasoning, but perhaps the date_published should be converted to datetime.

[jonasraoni]

About the is_imported suggestion, there's an issue to track this type of information here: #7859

[ajnyga]

Noticed that if a journal has no Sections (which is of course something that we maybe should not allow at all?) the Quicksubmit plugin will throw a 500 error.