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pkp / pkp-lib

The library used by PKP's applications OJS, OMP and OPS, open source software for scholarly publishing.
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Track where a submisssion came from, such as import/export, QuickSubmit, etc #7859

Closed asmecher closed 1 year ago

asmecher commented 2 years ago

Describe the problem you would like to solve Articles can be created in OJS/OMP/OPS through a variety of means...

However, it's impossible to later distinguish these from each other. There's a heuristic using dates that's implemented for statistics purposes:

However, it's not going to be 100% reliable.

Describe the solution you'd like Explicitly record the provenance of an article when it comes into the system via each of the above means.

Who is asking for this feature? Coders; also in the forum (https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/identify-usage-of-quick-submit-vs-normal-workflow/72778)

asmecher commented 1 year ago

Duplicate of https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/8389