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A web-based platform for publishing journals, preprints, conference proceedings, and books
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When submitting 'search' author button has 'add author' functionality #4306

Open StephDriver opened 6 days ago

StephDriver commented 6 days ago

The Problem

Backoffice. Submit an article.

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When Clicking "search" if there is a match, that author is automatically added to the article. This is not expected behaviour, even though it is described as such in the text above, the button stands out more, and is clearly at odds with that text.

What I'd like to see:

ajrbyers commented 6 days ago

@StephDriver at the risk of being pedantic "Search and Add" doesn't cover the posibility that a user isn't found so could also compound confusion, no?