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Need to be able to share read-only view of paper #280

Open arfon opened 7 years ago

arfon commented 7 years ago

One issue that's come up a few times is the need for authors to be able to share a read-only view of the review UI. This is so they can share the review comments with their co-authors.

Originally we had ideas for the 'collaborator' role serving this need but I think this is over-engineering this feature (authors would presumably have to invite people etc to view).

Instead, I'd like us to have a 'share' URL that an author could share with their colleagues that would render the review UI without any options to comment. Instead it would just allow people to see the current state of the review.

@freelanceastro we chatted about this ages ago and I managed to loose track of this feature request (which I think is pretty important).

@marcrohloff - any ideas how this could be implemented?

marcrohloff commented 7 years ago

A couple of thoughts

If you want to try this, the place to start is where I set paper.can_view_annotations in oj-review-page.html. If you remove a restriction here just make sure to add it to can_edit_annotations on the next line.