Author Main Menu for Invited Submissions

An Author is notified of an invitation to submit a manuscript via e-mail.  Once an Author receives the e-mail, the Author must login to the system.  From the Author Main Menu the Author will see a heading called ‘Invited Submissions’ with two links below:

-          ‘My New Invitations’ – this folder holds Proposals and Commentary Solicitations for which the Author has not yet ‘Agreed’ or ‘Declined’ to submit a related article.

-          ‘My Accepted Invitations’ - this folder holds Proposals and Commentary solicitations for which an Author has ‘Agreed’ to submit a related article.  Submissions move out of this folder once a related submission has been sent to the PDF builder.

The ‘Invited Submissions’ header and related folders should only appear if the Author has been invited (through ‘Invite Authors’ or ‘Solicit Commentary’ links), and should disappear when the Author ‘Declines’ all submissions or when the Author is uninvited from all submissions, or if an Author has no open invitations (i.e. he has submitted the related article).

When an Author Agrees to submit a Commentary (by clicking ‘Agree to Submit’ in the ‘My New Invitations’ folder), the Author will be delivered to the ‘My Accepted Invitations’ folder.  The Author can then submit the manuscript when ready by using a new ‘Submit Invited Manuscript’ link in this folder.  The Author must use this link to submit an invited manuscript, or the manuscript will not be linked to the parent submission.